App Defaults 2026

Quite a few changes from my last update in 2023:

📧 Email Client (Web): Fastmail

📧 Email Client (Android): e/os default mail app (K-9 Mail fork)

🕸️ Website: Micro.blog & Namecheap

📝✅ Notes + Todos: Index cards, Micro.blog private notes (both notes and todos), and Logseq (for work notes)

📔 Journal: Hobonichi 5 year, trying out Day one

📸 Photo Management: Ente

🗓️ Calendar (Web): Fastmail

🗓️ Calendar (Android): e/os default calendar app

🎁 Cloud file storage (unencrypted): Fastmail

🎁 Cloud file storage (encrypted): 1password

👽 Contacts: e/os default Android app

🌐 Browser: Brave (hoping for Kagi browser soon)

🔎 Search Engine: Kagi

💬 Chat: e/os default + Signal

🔖 Bookmarks: Micro.blog

💵 Budgeting: self-hosted dumb budget app

💵 Personal Finance: Micro.blog private notes (self aggregated data)

📰 News: Allsides

🔐 Password Management: 1password

🎨 Photo Editing: Paint.Net

👩‍💻 Code Editor: Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio

📚 Books: Self-hosted - audiobookshelf + physical copies