My default apps at the end of 2023
As the end of the year approaches, numerous trendsetting individuals are sharing their curated list of preferred tools on their blogs. Embracing the spirit of this trend, I present my own selection. Without further ado:
- 📨 Mail Service: AlwaysData
- 📮 Mail Client: Kmail and Nextcloud - Mail
- 📝 Notes: Nextcloud - Notes
- 📆 Calendar: Kalendar and Nextcloud (both synchronized with aKonadi)
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Kontact and Nextcloud (both synchronized with aKonadi)
- 📖 RSS Service: Newspipe
- 🗞️ RSS Client: Newspipe
- ⌨️ Launcher: Kickoff (the KDE launcher)
- ☁️ Cloud storage: Nextcloud
- 🌅 Photo library: Piwigo and DigiKam
- 🌐 Web Browser: Firefox
- 💬 Chat: Matrix, Mattermost, Signal, IRC and WhatsApp
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Newspipe
- 📚 Reading: Real books and LibraryThing in order to keep track of my books
- 📜 Word Processing: LaTeX and LibreOffice
- 📈 Spreadsheets: LibreOffice
- 📊 Presentations: LaTeX and LibreOffice
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Nextcloud - Notes
- 🎵 Music: Spotify, Qobuz and my upright piano (Oops, the last one is not an app 😉)
- 🔐 Password Management: pass (the standard unix password manager)
- 🤦♂️ Social Media: Mastodon
- 🔎 Search: DuckDuckGo and Google
- 🧮 Code Editor: VSCodium, Kate and Vim
Am I cool?
Post-scriptum: Robb Knight is maintaining a list of people who are joining in.