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Currently Listening: A Holiday Carole by Carole King. 🎵🎄
First heard Carole on Gilmore Girls and then bought her compilation album at University. When I went home over the Holiday break and I was listening to it, my mother expressed shock because she listened to Carole when she was my age. 🤣
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Default Apps and Services of 2023
It seems like a lot of folks have been writing about the default apps / services they use and while I’m late to the game, here is my list…at least for 2023. 🤣 I did a little tweak to the format everyone seems to be using: I split up my home and work life, as I do my best to keep things separate.
Assuming his site / page are working, you can go see a list on Rob Knight’s website or add your site to the list at Github.
📨 Mail Client
- Home: Mail & Fastmail
- Work: Outlook
📮 Mail Server
- Home: Fastmail & iCloud
- Work: Exchange
📝 Notes
- Home: Notes & DEVONthink
- Work: Notepad++ & GitHub wikis
✅ To-Do
- Home: Reminders / GoodTask
- Work: Jira
📷 Camera
- Home: iPhone 15 Pro
- Work: N/A
🟦 Photo Management
- Home: Photos & Synology Photos 1
- Work: N/A
📆 Calendar
- Home: Fantastical
- Work: Outlook / Exchange
📁 Cloud File Storage
- Home: iCloud, Backblaze, & OneDrive
- Work: Enterprise-hosted SharePoint / OneDrive
📖 RSS
- Home: Reeder
- Work: N/A
🙍🏻♂️ Contacts
- Home: Contacts / Cardhop
- Work: Outlook / Exchange
🌐 Browser
- Home: Safari
- Work: Edge
💬 Chat
- Home: iMessage, What’s App, & Signal
- Work: Teams & Slack
🔖 Bookmarks
📑 Read It Later
- Home: GoodLinks
- Work: N/A
📄 Word Processing
- Home: Pages & Word
- Work: Word
📈 Spreadsheets
- Home: Numbers & Excel
- Work: Excel
📊 Presentations
- Home: N/A
- Work: PowerPoint
🛒 Shopping Lists
- Home: Reminders / GoodTask
- Work: N/A
🍴 Meal Planning
- Home: Paprika
- Work: N/A
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance
- Home: Banktivity 3
- Work: N/A
📰 News
- Home: Combination of RSS and Podcasts.
- Work: N/A
🎵 Music
- Home: Music & Plex
- Work: N/A
🎤 Podcasts
- Home: Overcast
- Work: N/A
🔐 Password Management
- Home: 1Password 4
- Work: N/A
🤖 Code Editing
- Home: VS Code
- Work: Visual Studio, IntelliJ, & VS Code
📚 Books
- Home: Kindle
- Work: N/A
🌎 Blogging
- Home: Micro.blog 5
- Work: N/A
🖼️ Screenshots
- Home: CleanShot X
- Work: Snagit
🌤️ Weather
- Home: CARROT Weather
- Work: N/A
📑 Clipboard Manager
- Home: Paste
- Work: N/A
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Trying to convince my sister-in-law to use it instead of a series of external hard drives; she has an extreme aversion to playing for cloud storage. ↩︎
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I’ve been pushing my Team to use a common Wiki page for shared bookmarks. ↩︎
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I was using PocketSmith but as they recently raised their prices without offering anything new, I’ve moved on. ↩︎
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It took years but I was finally able to convince my Parents to start using a password manager, especially when functions on both their iOS and Windows devices. ↩︎
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Moved 18.3 TB of data from my Storage server to my Media server; gotta love the “
rsync -va --progress” command! 💻🤓 #HappyGeek -
🍿 Kicking off the winter movie season with You’ve Got Mail, which is an old Holiday favorite of ours. 🎄
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We put up the tree last night, with one of my favorite ornaments in a place of prominence. 🎄 We bought more than a few of these beauties in 2020, giving them to a number of Friends. 🤣 📷
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Finished reading: Imperial Wizard: Ambitions by J Parsons 📚
★★☆☆☆Somewhat predictable, the second book in the series continues right where the first left off. Events turn out for the best but more than a few questions are raised about how things will go in the future. 🤭
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Finished reading: Imperial Wizard by J Parsons 📚
★★☆☆☆This was a fun read, a magic users sleeps through what seems to be many cataclysms, awaking to a changed world, one where no one else knows how to use his type of magic.
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Finished reading: Weeping Of Willows by Brandon Cook 📚
★★★☆☆The second book of the series, I thought this was going to be predictable but it took some interesting and unexpected turns. I’m excited for the next book in the series (I really hate having to wait for “next books” 😆).
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Another early morning breakfast with the bestie; between brunches and various thanksgivings / parties, I’m going to put on at least 10 pounds by the end of the year. 🤣🍳📷
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No SimpliSafe, I don’t “miss you protecting me," if I did miss you I wouldn’t have canceled your service. In fact, if you hadn’t tried to gouge me, forcing me to pay you an extra $15 a month because I had “old” hardware, I’d likely still be paying for your service. 🤭
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Date Night: Burgers (in my case, a veggie burger) @ Red Robin. 😋🍔📷
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Well, the Analogue Pocket color editions are already sold out, so I guess I don’t have to decide if I want to buy one or not… 🤣😢
