Topic
apps
- Potluck
This paper describes an experiment to merge freeform document-style text and structured computations into a single interface. > We think a promising workflow is gradual enrichment from docs to apps: starting with regu…
- Make Consistent Coffee with Filtru
I've gotten back into brewing coffee lately. I used to be an avid Aeropress user, and I also use a Chemex or French press occasionally, so I got them back out to use instead of relying on my lower quality (more expens…
- Raycast
App launchers have been around a long time. Way back when it was Quicksilver, then it was Launchbar. A quick keystroke would pull up a search box, and a few letters of typing would open what you wanted. For many years…
- Charmstone
I ran across this little Mac utility recently. My left thumb and ring finger are always tethered to the alt-tab keys, muscle memory programmed to toggle between apps routinely on my machine. I must flip through the al…
- AirrSpaces
Last year I switched to Airr as my main podcast app when they launched the beta, and have used it exclusively just about every day since. Airr's killer feature is the "AirrQuote", which lets you clip snippets of podca…
- Portal
Portal is a simple iOS app that loops ambient sounds, as a sleep, focus, or meditation aid. I just started using it while working and it's very nice. It uses a 3-dimensional soundscape that sounds fantastic with nice…
- Concepts
I just installed this iPad app for sketching, which intrigued me for a few of its features. I've tried dozens of apps, but they tend to fall too far into the art camp or the note-taking camp, without very many that se…
- Airr
With the boom in popularity of podcasting, it's surprising their aren't more podcast players popping up. I've been an Overcast user for years, but there are only a few other big players these days: Stitcher, Spotify,…
- Weekend Reading: Soleimani, Prosperous Universe, and Roam
🇮🇷 The Shadow Commander This 2013 piece from Dexter Filkins gives an excellent background on Qasem Soleimani, an important figure now well known after his killing a couple of weeks ago, but prior to that hardly know…
- 1Password X
For a long time I've used the full 1Password desktop app and its browser plugin that installs alongside for support inside of Chrome. But recently I set up the 1Password X browser extension they first released a coupl…
- Wikipedia on Mobile
My most-used app on my iPhone is easily Wikipanion, the app I’ve used for a decade for reading Wikipedia. It’s one of the first apps I remember downloading and using heavily when the App Store launched. It’s probably…
- Writing on the iPad
I posted a couple weeks ago about moving much of my computing activity to the iPad full time. Part of what I had to crack to make that possible was a writing workflow that supported using the tools I prefer, and a met…
- Canvas podcast series on Workflow
If you’re a podcast listener and an iOS user of productivity apps, you should subscribe to the Canvas podcast. Hosted by Federico Vittici (of MacStories) and Fraser Spiers, these guys know all there is about making th…
- Touch ID and Security
I recently wrote a review on the Fulcrum blog for one of my favorite pieces of software, 1Password. It's a password management app to help you keep better organized with your hundreds of passwords, codes, and secure d…
- The Return of NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire 4.0 just dropped for Mac and iOS, after two years in a beta. Dan Moren is skeptical: ...the real question is whether an RSS reader is still software that people get worked up about. With the demise of long…
- Overcast
A brand new podcast player for iPhone built by Marco Arment. I've switched to using Overcast full time from a couple of years on Instacast. It's got the basics covered so far, and the addition of Overcast's "smart spe…
- A Comparison of Activity Trackers
The concept of activity tracking is getting ever closer to ubiquitous nowadays with the prevalence of dozens of mobile apps, wearable wristbands, and other health monitoring tools like Bluetooth-enabled scales and vid…
- OmniFocus 2 for iPhone
I'm an OmniFocus-flavored GTD adherent, or try to be. The iOS apps for OmniFocus were huge contributors to my mental adoption of my own GTD system. When OmniFocus 2 dropped a few weeks back for iPhone, I picked it up…
- Dropbox and Backups
I use Dropbox as the nerve center for all of my digital goods, keeping data, configurations, histories, log files, and anything else I need access to centralized and available from my Mac or iOS devices. Here are a fe…
- Drafts
Through a number of recommendations around the web, I've started using Drafts, an iOS app with an interesting workflow model that's helping me replace a number of input channels for capturing different pieces of infor…