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• Defaults
• Workspace

Defaults

These are the applications I use.

Slashpages says this “defaults” concept came from a Hemispheric Views podcast episode. A directory lists defaults pages that others have created.

• 📨 Mail Client — Fastmail
• 📮 Mail Server — Fastmail
• 📝 Notes — Obsidian, Apple Notes (shared)
• ✅ To-Do — Things (OmniFocus expat)
• 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting — Camera
• 🟦 Photo Management — Photos
• 📆 Calendar — Fantastical
• 📁 Cloud File Storage — iCloud Drive (shared)
• 📖 RSS — Feedbin, read in their iOS app or on the web
• ☎️ Contacts — Contacts
• 🌐 Browser — Firefox Developer Edition, Polypane (accessibility auditing), Safari
• 💬 Chat — Messages, Slack
• 🔖 Bookmarks — Raindrop (Pinboard expat)
• 📑 Reading — Raindrop, Readwise, Kindle, Calibre, and Libby
• 📜 Word Processing — Microsoft Word or markdown in any editor
• 📈 Spreadsheets — Microsoft Excel,
• 📊 Presentations — PowerPoint, shower.js
• 🛒 Shopping Lists — Apple Notes (shared)
• 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance — Microsoft Excel
• 📰 News — RSS, Google News, and anything plain text, like NPR text-only
• 🎵 Music — Apple Music
• 🎤 Podcasts — Only as a transcript read on a page, otherwise not listening at all
• 🔐 Password Management — 1Password
• 🚀 Launcher & Clipboard — Apple Spotlight
• 💻 Code Editor — VSCode
• 📀 Source Control (Hosting) — GitHub
• 📋 Git — Tower
• ⌨️ Terminal — Ghostty
• 🤖 Macros & Automation — Keyboard Maestro and Shortcuts
• 🌤️ Weather — CARROT
• ⚙️ Configuration management — plenty of shell scripts and Homebrew
• 🖼️ Screenshots — CleanShot X
• 🪟 Window Manager — Keyboard Maestro
• 🔎 Search — DuckDuckGo
• 🖌️ Design Tools — Pixelmator Pro
• 🔎 Color Picker — Pika
• 🎨 Color Theme — Monokai
• 🌎 VPN — iVPN

Workspace

As of late 2026, this needs updating. This setup has built up over time, with trial and error and plenty selling things on eBay that didn't work for me.

1. Apple MacBook Air M3 1TB 24GB
2. LG 32" 4K monitor
3. LG 27" monitor sideways
4. Canon T5i and Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens with Elgato Cam Link 4K and dummy battery
5. Viltrox LED video lights (x2)
6. Qunis monitor lightbar (x2)
7. Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
8. Apple Magic Mouse
9. Samson Q9U microphone
10. Prohands finger exerciser
11. AirPods Pro 2nd generation
12. Anker wireless charger (for phone, watch, and AirPods)
13. Dreo fan remote (fan sits to the side)
14. Desktop power grommet
15. Leather desk pad
16. Yeti Rambler 36oz water bottle
17. Tactile Turn side click pen
18. Herman Miller Aeron chair, size C
19. IKEA tabletop
20. IKEA adjustable desk frame
21. NFC sticker that toggles the lights and camera via Shortcuts
22. Under desk pull-out drawer
23. CalDigit TS3 Plus Thunderbolt 3 dock

The lights and camera are connected to a Meross HomeKit surge strip so I can turn everything on and off a keyboard command or tap of the NFC sticker.

All of the mounting for monitors, camera, microphone, and lights are a variety of WALI parts.