Default apps

With so many default apps from Robb Knight landing into my RSS feeds, I got intereseted by the apps other people uses by default and the ones listed on https://defaults.rknight.me/

So let’s share mine as it is easy to write.

📨 Mail Client

Protonmail is the defacto free and good version for private emails. I use their web UI to read and write emails and their app on smartphones.

📮 Mail Server

As the mail is hosted by Protonmail, I use their servers as hosting. So it is not applicable in my case.

📝 Notes

Everything I notes is written in an Obsidian vault. My notes are then organized using the PARA method: Project, Area, Resource and Archive.

✅ To-Do

Pen & Paper 📝 When a task needs to be done, it is added, and when done, it is checked. That’s it and it works well. I do some daily todo-list, and I added a weekly todo.

📷 Photo Shooting

Well the simple camera of any smartphones.

🟦 Photo Management

My phone Gallery app and I upload the rest to my cloud file storage. KISS on this as it is not so much important for me.

📆 Calendar

The calendar of Simple Mobile Tools fits my need.

📁 Cloud File Storage

A 2TB lifetime plan with pCloud is well enough at the moment. It keeps the document reachable accross devices.

📖 RSS

Liferea is my go to on my desktop. I organize the feeds in folders and subfolders. It can carry the XXX feeds I have at the moment and it is enough.

👤 Contacts

I use the simple Contact app of the phone and call it a day. I don’t need it that much.

🌐 Browser

Firefox on both smartphones and desktops. Nothing else except to test web UIs in browsers.

💬 Chat

Signal, Telegram and Whatsapp. I promote Signal above all else; Telegram is useful for friends, and Whatsapp for family in general.

🔖 Bookmarks

Most happens on my selfhosted instance of Shaarli. I use the bookmarks of the browser too, sometimes with specific names or namespaces to find them again, and the “marked” state of the RSS reader Liferea.

📑 Read It Later

Well, it is the same as with the bookmarks: reading on the fly happens with a specific tag on Shaarli. It allows to access the resource from any device with an internet connexion. I mark some in Liferea directly and open my reader to get them on the couch. It goes in pair with my bookmarks.

📜 Word Processing

n/a

📈 Spreadsheets

I don’t use them anymore, but it was Libreoffice all the way.

📊 Presentations

slides.dev for small and quick presentations. I was using PowerPoint for some projects at the university though.

🛒 Shopping Lists

I somehow came to use Flatastic while I was living in a shared flat. I’ve kept it that way ever since.

🍴 Meal Planning

/tree/master/src What is in the fridge, then I have a shopping list and that’s it.

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance

n/a

📰 News

A lot goes with RSS or Mastodon. I also get some from friends 😱 For the society news (especially France), I use the channel of Hugo Décrypte.

🎵 Music

Spotify while working or to have some sound. I also use termusic for local files and custom playlists.

🎤 Podcasts

The VLC app or the pCloud music player. I always download them and put them in a ~/resources/podcasts folder.

🔐 Password Management

A simple KeepassXC local database that is synced accross my devices works well for now.

At some point I am considering a self-hosted Nextcloud instance for the daily business: Contacts, Agenda & Calendar, Tasks, etc…

and have a good day!