- ♻️ Automation: Email Octopus
- ✍🏻 Blogging: Ghost, Google Docs
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Raindrop.io
- 🌐 Browser: Chrome
- 💰 Budgeting: No chance!
- 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar / Outlook at work / Moleskine
- 💬 Chat: WhatsApp Desktop / Occasional Messenger / Workplace Chat
- 🙎🏻♂️ Contacts: Contacts
- 📁 Cloud storage: Google Drive / iCloud
- 🎮 Gaming: Occasional iOS Game
- ✔️ Habit tracking: Apple Reminders
- 📖 Ebooks: Kindle (although I prefer real books)
- 📨 Mail: Gmail + Simplify Gmail / Outlook at work
- 🚗 Maps: Google Maps
- 🎥 Media tracking: Discogs for Vinyl / Letterboxd for Movies
- 🧘♂️ Meditation: Headspace (lapsed user)
- 🎵 Music: Spotify, Bandcamp and Vinyl
- 📝 Notes: Apple Notes, Moleskine
- 🔐 Passwords: 1password
- 📷 Photography: Fujifilm x100v, iPhone
- 🎞️ Photo library: Apple Photos, Slidebox
- 📊 Presentations: Google Slides
- 📊 Projects: Google Sheets
- 📖 RSS: Inoreader
- 💻 Screenshot Tool: Shottr
- 🫱🏼🫲🏾 Social: Threads Desktop, Bluesky + deck.blue
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- ✅ Tasks: Apple Reminders / Moleskine
- ⛅ Weather: XCWeather + default in MacOS
- 🔗 Websites: mattrutherford.co.uk (Ghost)
- 🏋️♂️ Wellness: iFit / Lungy
- 📜 Writing: Google Docs, Apple Notes, Hemingway
Default Apps 2025
I get asked occasionally what tools I use for productivity and workflow - and I like a list, so here's mine for 2025.
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