The procrastinating part of me celebrates these words.
I want a good calendar app. One I’m excited to use, that works across devices, and is happy with multiple accounts that didn’t all originate in its own ecosystem. I want it to be lightweight.
I want a beautiful way of organizing my areas of responsibility. The difference between organizing my objectives, and executing on them is growing larger by the day, it seems. (Continue)
How might we let users seamlessly manage calendars from multiple providers in one cross-device app that doesn’t feel heavy, slow, and unreliable?
The July edition of the IndieWeb Carnival is about tools. Host James is interested in the relationship between tools and our creative practices.
Remember Flickr, and the way we self-published visual sneak peeks into our lives on that website, in the mid-zeroes? If we wanted a filter in our photo, we had to Photoshop it in there ourselves. We tagged our uploads, but merely to archive our materials. Our profiles all contained a link to our personal blog. (Continue)
“Just about any app can read it, a year and a decade from now, I’m sure, and then some. That’s more than you can say about diary apps and services, they could suddenly disappear, like the Ello social network did.”
Look at that, I had completely forgotten about Ello, but I felt its obscure echo when I read about
Daft Social last week.
Inspired by App Defaults, this is a list of the main tools I frequently use these days.
Type App(s) Experience Mail client Spark 🙂 Mail server Various 😑 Notes Obsidian 😏 To do Goodnotes 😏 Photo shooting Camera.app, Polaroid Now+ 2 😏 Photo editing Snapseed 😏 Photo management Various 😑 Calendar Calendars 😑 Cloud file storage Dropbox 🙂 RSS Reader 😏 Contacts Contacts 😑 Browser Chrome 🙂 Chat Messages, Whatsapp 🙂 Bookmarks Chrome, website 🙂 Read it later Reader 😏 Word processing Obsidian, Google Docs 🙂 Spreadsheets Google Sheets 🙂 Presentations Google Slides 🙂 Shopping lists Obsidian 🙂 UX design Figma 😍 Meal planning N/A - Budgeting YNAB 😍 News N/A - Music Spotify 🙂 Audio books Audible 🙂 Podcasts PocketCasts 🙂 Password management redacted Code editor, desktop VS Code 🙂 Code editor, mobile Working Copy 🙂 Maps Google Maps 🙂 AI assistant N/A - Reading log Goodreads 😏 White noise Better Sleep 😍 Prayer Lectio 365, Prayer Day By Day 😍 Media triggers Does The Dog Die? (Continue)
I am notorious for never grasping how many people know how much about what. To save myself from any further embarrassment I won’t spend my time here telling you what the app is about. The team does that nicely over here. I do think I have something to say about what Scriptogr.am came exactly at the right time for me.
As we more further down the line of Web 2.0 and slowly into the abyss that is Web 3. (Continue)
