Prompted by British treasure Paul Lloyd’s list (along with the larger trend), here’s my cross-platform app breakdown as things stand here in December 2023:

📨 Mail Client For work Spark, for personal Proton Mail

📮 Mail Server For work Gmail, for personal Proton Mail

📝 Notes Combination of Notion, Google Keep and BBEdit for text files

✅ To-Do Apple Reminders, the “snooze” feature when available anywhere and text files

📷 Photo Shooting iPhone 14 Pro Max

🟦 Photo Management Apple Photos

🌅 Photo Editing Photoshop

📆 Calendar Fantastical on iOS, Apple Calendar on Mac

📁 Cloud File Storage No real loyalty these days, I guess primarily Google Drive for work and iCloud Drive for personal (once in a while Dropbox, and I’ve been trying out Proton Drive recently)

📖 RSS Reeder (with Feedbin as the backend)

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts Apple Contacts

🌐 Browser Chrome on desktop for work (and desktop for personal, as I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Chromebook as a “fun” machine, so don’t have much of a choice without going more off the rails), primarily the DuckDuckGo browser on iOS

💬 Chat Mostly Apple Messages for personal (along with Instagram DMs and a few Discord servers), Slack and Mighty (naturally) for work

🔖 Bookmarks Just built-in browser bookmarks these days

📑 Read It Later Instapaper

📜 Word Processing Google Docs

📈 Spreadsheets Google Sheets

📊 Presentations Google Slides, once in a while Keynote

🛒 Shopping Lists AnyList (I love it)

🍴 Meal Planning Me following the directions for whatever Sarah orders from HelloFresh

📰 News New York Times, Washington Post, Apple News+, Artifact

🎵 Music Spotify, along with a growing vinyl collection

📺 TV & Movie Tracking Television Time, TodoMovies, Callsheet

🎤 Podcasts Overcast

🔐 Password Management Need to pick a lane, but a combination of 1Password, Apple’s functionality and Google/Chrome’s functionality

🐘 Mastodon Ivory on iOS and Mac