Here are my default apps of 2024… in 2025.
Inspired by Jeff’s list.
You can find my referral links here for Libro, YNAB, or SavvyCal. I’d love a free audiobook if you end up switching from Audible to Libro.fm. 💗
- 🌐 Browser: Vivaldi
- 🔍 Search: Kagi (sometimes free Perplexity)
- 🤖 LLM: Claude
- 📝 Notes: Obsidian + Vim
- ✅ To-Do: Obsidian
- ✍ Writing: Obsidian + Vim
- 🧑💻 Code Editor: Vim
- 📼 Screencasting: OBS + Kdenlive + Whisper API + Custom Python scripts
- 📚 Audiobooks: Libby (💖), Spotify (meh), Libro (💖), Audible (yuck)
- 🎤 Podcasts: Pocket Casts, though I wish I had a better alternative
- 🎵 Music: Spotify
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: a mix of Git, Dropbox, Google Drive
- 📜 Word Processing: Google Drive
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Drive, Airtable
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: YNAB
- 💬 Chat: Signal, Discord, Slack
- 📆 Scheduling + Booking: SavvyCal
- 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar
- 📹 Video Calls: Google Meet + Zoom
- 🔐 Password Management: Bitwarden
- 🔏 Multi-Factor Auth: Aegis (Android) + Authenticator (laptop)
- 🐚 Terminal: Gnome Terminal + Tmux + Tmuxstart + Starship + Direnv
- 🗃️ Version Control: Git
- 🖥️ DNS: Cloudflare
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Raindrop.io
- 📮 Email: Gmail
- 🎒 Backups: Manual Calendar Event + Git
