Last Updated: 11-04-2025
| Category | Tool/App |
|---|---|
| 📨 Mail Client | Apple Mail (Personal) / Gmail (Work) |
| 📮 Mail Server | iCloud Mail |
| 📝 Notes | Obsidian |
| ✅ To-Do | Things 3 |
| 📷 Camera | Canon RP w/ 24-105 f4 + Canon AE-1 Film |
| 📸 Photo Editing | Apple Photos / Lightroom |
| 🟦 Photo Management | Apple Photos |
| 📆 Calendar | Apple Calendar |
| 📁 Cloud Storage | iCloud Drive (Personal) / Google Drive (Work) |
| 📖 RSS | Reeder |
| 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts | Apple Contacts |
| 🌐 Browser | Safari (Daily) / Chrome (Work) |
| 📌 Pinned Tabs | Beta.Digg + BearDev.Blog + X |
| 💬 Chat | Apple Messages |
| 🔖 Bookmarks | Raindrop.io |
| 📑 Read It Later | GoodLinks |
| 📜 Word Processing | Obsidian, Plain Text Editor, or Pages |
| 📈 Spreadsheets | Google Sheets |
| 📊 CRM + Work | Notion (Soon to be Google Sheets) |
| 🛒 Shopping Lists | Apple Reminders (Groceries) |
| 💪🏻 Habit Tracking | DayOne (Template) |
| 💰 Work Budgeting | Google Sheets |
| 📰 News | Reeder & WSJ |
| 🎵 Music | Apple Music (ALAC)1 / Spotify (Stream) |
| 🎤 Podcasts | Apple Podcast |
| 🔐 Password | Apple Passwords |
| 🧭 Map/Directions | Apple Maps |
| 🔎 Search | DuckDuckGo |
| 🤖 Preferred LLM | ChatGPT (Plus) |
| 🖋️ Journal | DayOne |
| 🔧 Mac Utilities | Shottr + Pure Paste + Dropover |
| 💻 Code Editor | XCode |
| 🛡️ Safari Extensions | Noir + uBlock Lite |
| 📞 Conferencing | Google Meet |
| 🎮 Games | World of Warcraft Classic - Mists of Pandera |
| 🗡️ Pocket Knife | Benchmade 535 |
| 📱 Phone | iPhone 14 Pro Max iOS 26 |
| 💻 Laptop | MacBook Pro M2 MacOS 26 |
| 🖥️ Desktop | Mac Mini M4 24gb RAM MacOS 26 |
| ⌨️ Keyboard | Multiple Custom Builds |
| 🐁 Mouse | acer Ergonomic |
| 🎒 Backpack | Peak Design 30L Travel |
| 📢 Social(s) | X + Digg (Beta) |
| ⛪ Faith | Bible App + ESV Study Bible |
| 🎧 Headphones | Soundcore A40 |
| ⌚ Watch | Seiko SKX 019 GMT or Casio Duro |
| 👓 Reading | Kindle Paper White |
Change Log
- 09-18-2025
- Added headphones
- Added Watch
- Unpinned Digg
- Added Reading w/ Link
- Moved original intro + shoutout to change log.
- Inspired by Matt Langford post "What I'm Using." Which he recently told me he was actually inspired by App Defaults.
- This is going to be a running and ever changing list that I'll pin a the top of my personal blog.
- 10-03-2025
- Updated Habit tracking to DayOne. See Weekly Roundup: Week 40, 2025 for more details.
- 10-10-2025
- Added Desktop: Mac Mini M4 24gb RAM MacOS 26
- 10-21-2025
- Removed Arc as work browser and switched to Chrome w/ Split View enabled.
- 11-04-2025
- Updated Pinned Tabs
Yes, I collect CDs and vinyl. I have an Intel MacBook that I turned into my home server for my music collection to save space on my primary M2 Pro.↩