App Defaults 2025 - with some AI stuff
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Continuing my spree of app defaults, which I started in 2023 with this post, here's a slightly changed list of all the apps I use and will probably keep using for the rest of 2025:
🤖 AI Models/Chat Apps - Claude 3.5 Sonnet (for coding), ChatGPT (for general use), Perplexity (for search)
📨 Mail Client - Gmail
📝 Notes - Notion, Obsidian, Bear
📆 Calendar - Google Calendar
📁 Cloud - Google Cloud, OneDrive, Cloudinary (for images)
📖 RSS - Unread
🌐 Browser - Chrome (for daily use), Brave (private browsing), Arc (just to feel nice)
💬 Chat - WhatsApp, Discord
🔖 Bookmarks - Notion Web Clipper, Chrome Bookmarks
🎤 Podcasts - PocketCasts
🔐 Password Management - Bitwarden (still OG)
🧑💻 Code Editor - VS Code, Cursor (for AI stuff), Zed
✈️ VPN - ProtonVPN
💸 Quick Financial Calculations - numbr - useful for quick note taking with calculations.
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