It has been almost two months since I quit visiting Facebook. I still post photos from my Instagram and occasional notes via Buffer, but if there is anything I miss it is publishing random musings, which are too small for a blog post and too long to be a tweet.
A friend suggested, why don’t you collect all your thoughts and post it as a blog post? And today seemed like a perfect day to start doing this. It is a little grey, rainy and chilly in San Francisco — and for once I have just two meetings during the working day. I have made my favorite tea, and I am sitting in my apartment — just musing about various things.
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- Apple Notes: A few years ago, there was hardly anyone who had anything kind to say about Apple Notes app on the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It was a turd, to put it politely. Yesterday, I asked folks on Twitter what was their favorite notes app for the iPhoneX was and a whopping 43 percent said Apple Notes. Yes, it is free, but it is also pretty damn good. I have gotten used to it and use it for writing with my Pencil on my iPad Pro.
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- Beautiful Bear: I still ended up buying Bear because it is so pretty and I am a sucker for indie apps. The app is everything I like about a note taking app: pure, the ability to do a lot more styling if needed and ability to sync across all of my devices. Sure, it costs $14 a year, but I don’t mind paying because the app makes it easy to get on with it.
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- App Uninstaller: Talking about indie apps, I bought App Uninstaller from the Mac store to clean out my disk drive. It is good at what it does, but it gets thumbs down simplicity of use and cuss words for incessant intrusiveness.
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- BBEdit: how can an app be so amazing and awesome after so many years? The newest paid upgrade of BBEdit still makes it one of my favorites. It does cost a pretty penny!
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- Twitter Apps: I spent $20 on Twitterrific, and I don’t quite get what the fuss is all about. Sure, I get the threaded conversations, but that isn’t a top priority for me. TweetBot is equally as good and I don’t mind the Twitter app either. I much prefer Twitter in the private window of Safari/other browsers.
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- Firefox Quantum Browser: This is a great new addition to a growing landscape of browsers. I am enjoying it more than Chrome. I have replaced Google search with Duck Go Go and stopped all sorts of tracking on the web with it. I absolutely love the Pocket integration. Trust me, you want to download this and get back into the Firefox camp.
November 15, 2017, San Francisco