Lately, I've seen a lot of the "what apps am I using" type posts, apparently prompted by a podcast episode. You can see a collection of what a number of people are using here. I find these interesting as they're a good way to discover new apps which I hadn't been aware of previously. These are the apps I use for my iPhone, Mac, and Raspberry Pi at home as well as the Linux and Windows machines I use at work.
- Mail Client: Apple Mail, Outlook at work (barely tolerable but dictated by the IT team)
- Notes: Apple Notes for shared notes, Editorial for notes I don't want on the cloud (such as those containing sensitive information such as birthdays)
- Chat: iMessage
- Camera: Apple Camera, Night Capture for evening sky photos
- Photo Management: manual sync into directories on my Mac
- Photo Editing: Preview on Mac, IrfanView on Windows
- Calendar: Google Calendar - I like it for its ability to do custom repeats and for ease of having more than 2 notification reminders
- Browser: On Macs I use Safari for lightweight browsing for its ease of sharing bookmarks with mobile devices, Firefox for general browsing because it has a richer collection of security plugins. At work I use Chrome (barely tolerable but dictated by IT).
- Backup: ChronoSync
- Read It Later: Instapaper
- RSS: Inoreader (web and app)
- News: RSS feeds from news sites which lets me keep up with events without being distracted by things I'm not interested in such as sports
- Podcasts: Overcast (great performance and the best UI of any app on my phone, bar none)
- Books: Kindle, Audible, Libby, Hoopla
- Database: Tap Forms (good sync between mobile and Mac)
- Personal Finance: GNUcash
- Password Management: 1Password - with 600+ non-trivial passwords to remember, this is a must
- Music - Apple Music, Remote app to control desktop from my phone
- Editing (code and general) - MacVim on Mac, GVim on work machines (Windows and Linux)
- X Servers - XQuartz on Mac, VcXsrv on Windows
- SCP client - WinSCP on Windows, scp from the shell on Linux/Mac machines
- Terminal emulation - putty on Windows and Linux machines
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