Paweł Orzech

My Defaults (2025)

07.12.2025

Let’s do this. My Defaults from 2025. If you want to check previous entries - here’s the 2023 one that started it all, then 2024 one is here.

If there was a change I’ll add ✨ there.

✨ 📨 Mail Client: ~~Mail.app on both iOS and macOS, for work - Mimestream (Google accounts only)~~ Fastmail app on Android, Fastmail web on desktop. For work - Superhuman on both phone and desktop.

📮 Mail Server: Fastmail / Google for work

✨ 📝 Notes: ~~Obsidian~~, Tot and Day One - instead of Obsidian I’m using Standard Notes. I find myself making less and less notes.

✨✅ To-Do: Akiflow and ~~Things~~ Google Tasks - since moving to Android I’m using Google Tasks as reminders. Big things are going to Akiflow.

✨📷 ~~iPhone~~ OnePlus 13 Photo Shooting: Standard camera app

🟦 Photo Management: Lightroom

✨📆 Calendar: ~~Calendar on iOS~~ I moved to Google Calendar, Akiflow on Mac

✨📁 Cloud File Storage: ~~iCloud~~ Google Drive + Backblaze B2

📖 RSS: FreshRSS with Reeder on MacOS but Capy Reader on Android

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts

✨🌐 Browser: ~~Arc Browser for Mac and Arc Search for iOS~~ I’m using Brave everywhere, Chrome for work and Dia for personal projects.

💬 Chat: Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp

🔖 Bookmarks: Browser

✨📑 Read It Later: ~~Good Links~~ I didn’t read anything later so I ditched it.

✨🤖 Mastodon: ~~Ivory and IceCubes~~ Moshidon on Android, web on desktop.

📖 Blog: micro.blog and Day One

⌨️ Launcher: Raycast

✨📜 Word Processing: ~~Obsidian~~ Google Docs mostly.

📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets

📊 Presentations: Google Slides

✨🛒 Shopping Lists: ~~Reminders~~ We don’t do that anymore - just texting each other notes on Signal.

✨💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: ~~YNAB~~ Actual Budget.

📰 News: RSS

✨🎵 Music: Spotify - well, mostly MP3s now.

🎤 Podcasts: Pocket Casts

✨🎮 Gaming: PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch and ~~Anbernic RG35XX~~ - FPGBC + Nintendo DSi.

🔐 Password Management: 1Password

✨👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: ~~WebSSH~~ Warp.

05.12.2025 →

I’m glad we decided that Cloudflare should be the backbone of the internet. Thanks to that I’m able to not use it at least for a moment.

22.11.2025 →

Got ‘em.

21.11.2025 →

I think I’m gonna get a MacBook Pro 14, M4 Pro with 24GB RAM and 1TB SSD. Am I making a mistake?

19.11.2025 →

Me rn

16.11.2025 →

If you know, you know.

14.11.2025 →

Something is wrong. I’ve updated to OxygenOS 16 and lock screen styling doesn’t really work?

14.11.2025 →

Never in a million years would I thought that this is how my github activity would look like.

13.11.2025 →

How can you even THINK about going back to phones that need to be charged for an hour or something, when OnePlus 13 goes from 0 to 100% in 36 minutes.

10.11.2025 →

I’m becoming one of these people again. (Not going to wear it all the time because I have nicer watches but going full-Garmin for training).

09.11.2025 →

It’s been a couple of months, and I’m still kind of amazed at how good this phone is. The speed hits me every time - not just opening apps, but the whole system just feels light and snappy. Charging is stupidly fast. You plug it in for ten minutes, and it’s basically full again.

Android really fits the way I use a phone. I like how much control I have, and how I can tweak small things without it fighting back. I’ve been looking at some of the new custom ROMs for the OnePlus 13 though (LineageOS in particular) and it’s tempting. No proper esim and LTPO support yet so I’m waiting for that getting fixed (I know how hard this could be but my fingers are crossed).

Funny thing is, I wouldn’t have gone down this road without the Pixel 8a I bought about a year ago. That phone made me appreciate Android in the first place. But it also showed me what I was missing - a faster screen, better charging, a bit more power under the hood.

So yeah, no regrets switching. It was a good year phone-wise.

08.11.2025 →

I was always using the highest resolution possible on my Mac, but I turned on that default resolution - and finally saw what the retina thing was about. For me, it was always the higher resolution thing only.