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Changes from the last edition are in bold. As of 2026-01-10.

✉️ Mail Client: Fastmail

📨 Mail Server: Fastmail

📝 Notes: Craft + Apple Notes

✅ To-Do: Things 3

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app

📚 Photo Management: Photos.app + Photomator

🗓️ Calendar: Calendar.app

🗄️ Cloud file storage: iCloud

📰 RSS: Reeder connected to Inoreader

📇 Contacts: Contacts

🕸️ Browser: Mobile Safari + ARC Browser on Mac + ChatGPT Atlas

🧠 AI: ChatGPT + Claude AI

🔎 Search: Kagi Search

💬 Chat: iMessage (WhatsApp when abroad)

🔖 Bookmarks: AnyBox

👓 Read It Later: Inoreader

📜 Word Processing: Ulysses, Craft

📊 Spreadsheets: Numbers

🛝 Presentations: Keynote

🛒 Shopping Lists: Reminders

🧑‍🍳 Meal Planning: None

💰 Budgeting & Personal Finance: Numbers

🗞️ News: La Presse (Apple News for English news)

🎶 Music: Apple Music

🎧 Podcasts: Apple Podcasts

🔐 Password Management: iCloud Keychain & Apple Passwords

👨🏻‍💻 Blog hosting: Ghost, Micro.blog, Scribbles.page

🌐 Web Services: Cloudflare, Chillidog Hosting, DigitalOcean