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My apologies to anyone hoping for a meaningful update, the site has been quiet for a few weeks while. Time is hard to come by, nonetheless new material is not far away. In the meantime, I draw your attention to the annual. Some of the best apps you will find anywhere for study and academic work are on the list, among them the most important software I own. These are the highlights:One of only two reference managers I can recommend at present, Bookends is annoyingly good. I say that because I am currently invested in Zotero, while I continue to use the API for building iOS shortcuts.
If it were not for that exercise, I would switch permanently to Bookends. It is everything I always hoped Papers 3 would be and never was. If you want a native referencing solution this is it.I write in Markdown wherever I can, but there is nothing that comes remotely close to providing what Scrivener does for long form writing. I mean real long form writing.
If you're crafting a dissertation, a thesis, monograph, or a novel get Scrivener. Ulysses provides a well polished middle ground for writers, but Scrivener is much better suited for serious projects in my view. If you’re still writing in MS Word, do yourself a favour.Another singular and irreplaceable tool.
There are programs about that approximate some of its functionality, such as Keep-it, Eagle Filer, or Evernote in a pinch, but there is nothing that combines the powerful heuristic engine, security features and search capabilities. All of my data ends up in DEVONthink eventually.Scapple was designed as a companion tool for Scrivener, but works just as well as a standalone utility. It is the simplest, most freeform mind mapping utility available on macOS.I have all but forgotten how to type without TextExpander. By no means the only option for the job, though likely the best of them. WinterFest 2018For the entire list, and more information check out the.
As far as I can see, there doesn’t seem to be any indication of when the promotion ends. However, the promo code is the same for all the apps: WINTERFEST2018. Sorry Apple Bloggers, long blog posts are not long form writingCategories Tags,. Setapp, the mac app subscription service, has added another of my favourite utilities to their collection. I mentioned in one of the on this site, and it continues to be one of the handiest automation tools I have on my Mac. I use it every day. I use as often as I use my Mac, to trigger automated tasks and moreAt its most basic, extends the drag and drop powers of your mac.
It can do much more than that, using customisable actions that are bundled into ‘dropzones’ that act as triggers. It is once of those apps whose usefulness cannot be fully appreciated until it has been put to work. Which brings to me to the usefulness of Setapp more generally. The Value In a Setapp Mac App SubscriptionI have been meaning to do the math on this for a while, but it doesn't take much to recognise the value I get from Setapp. Looking at the growing list of apps I have installed from the service, it has become an integral part of the way I use my Mac.
I have over forty apps installed from Setapp now 1 Many of the apps I use daily basis, or at least every time I use my iMac. Admittedly, I already own, so it could be a stretch to include it on the list.Others Mac apps, like, and have become critical to the way I run this site. Then there are the apps that hold my Mac together, like,. And, probably the most overlooked value of Setapp, having a subscription allows me to use apps I might otherwise hesitate to buy, for how little I use them.
For example, I have been playing around with API requests lately, using. For my amateur twiddling, I couldn’t justify the US$50 to buy that app outright. Setapp means I don’t have to.It is a point worth contemplating.
Take, it might not be expensive, but it is the kind of utility you need to tinker with to get the most out of it. Trial versions never last long enough to gain a full appreciation of an app, and I for one never treat a trial version like I would a first class citizen. If anything, Setapp creates the opposite problem for the software tinkering procrastinators of the world. Setapp Subscription for Education The growing collection of apps for study, research and writing, make Setapp ideal for education users and studentsI have made this point before, yet it bears repeating. For a lot of people, the software necessary for studying at university — or if you call it college — is practically redundant once school’s out. Dedicated apps like for organising your learning, the wonderfully designed lab notebook app, or the power user mind mapping tool.are eligible for a 50% discount, so I’m paying US$49 a year for Setapp at the moment. Half of that covers Ulysses alone, and the rest would be easily accounted for when even a single one of these apps receives a paid upgrade.I bang on about Setapp every chance I get.
I don’t want it to go away. The service saves me being pecked to death by a dozens of separate subscriptions or paid upgrades. We are in shallow waters with the new app subscription situation. I fear some developers are getting it wrong with pricing, where it is working for others. This strikes me as a better way to do things. The collective aspect of it appeals, and with apps like being added all the time, Setapp continues to get better and better.If you want to check it out for yourself, you can download a trial for full access to the collection. Don’t for get to apply for the discount of you’re an education user.
It’s true I like to write on my iPad, however, I still make good use of my Mac. $40USD a year for a Pomodoro timer is ridiculousCategories Tags. Devon Technologies is offering their customary for on macOS. I have been writing a lot about iOS lately, but I haven’t forgotten the Mac.
DEVONthink remains one of the most compelling research solutions available on the Mac, and a singular argument for using macOS for study or academic work. The more information it has, the smarter at gets at making connections.Our software is created with this in mind: DEVONthink helps you collect and organize your knowledge on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone. DEVONagent Pro finds information on the web no matter how deeply it is hidden, and DEVONsphere Express does the same on your computer.We give 25% educational discount all year long but we want you to have a great start into the new term.
So, students and teachers get our Mac apps for an exclusive 40% discount until September 16th, 2018. If this isn’t the best time in the year to get prepared for school, then when is?If you’re an education user on Mac, the discount is available until 16th September 2018 Categories Tags,. This is part one of a two part feature on Alfons Schmid's Notebooks app. Part two covers Unique Features in Notebooks App For Students And AcademicsAlfons Schmid's app has been on my list of since I started this site. I’ve since written about it a number of times, and included it among the.
I consider it one of the best note taking apps for iPad, especially for students and academics. The combination of writing and organisational tools make Notebooks uniquely suited to research. It has features you won't find in other note taking apps. The following highlights some of the functionality in Notebooks that make it so useful. For expediency sake I have broken this in two parts, with the first covering features suited to academic workflows, and a followup post covering automating Notebooks with Workflow and.I recently highlighted the way I use the task management feature of Notebooks, along with its URL scheme to.
Notebooks has numerous other features suited to academic work, here are some of the highlights. Dual Document ViewerThe minimalism of the iOS operating system is one of the iPad’s strengths. Whether by design, or by accident it encourages focused work. However, from time to time it can lead you to a dead end.
One such problem is the inability to run multiple instances of any given app. In practice that usually means finding a workaround for a common research and writing workflow. I’m talking about viewing and editing two discreet documents at the same time.The ability to view two documents concurrently is often necessary for academic work. Studying the contents of one document for comparison or analysis, while writing in another. Incorporating comments and feedback, or simple proofing. If you do any serious research based writing, eventually you will want a solution for this. This has become a notorious pain point on the iPad that very few apps address.
Multitasking has soothed the pain somewhat. Opening documents in two different apps has become the de facto workaround, but you shouldn’t need to.Notebooks is one of only few apps available on iPad that can view and edit two documents at the same timeNotebooks has an elegant solution via the. A swipe gesture on any given file from the document tree will open a second document in split screen. Even more useful is the long list of document types supported, including plain text documents, Markdown, PDF, iWork, Office, RTF and HTML documents as well as images, movies, web archives or email messages. Is the only other app I know of that does this, from experience Notebooks does a better job by affording both documents equal screen real estate. Customisable Keyboard NavigationNotebooks has extensive keyboard shortcuts for everything from document creation and navigation, to time stamping and revealing word counts.
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I recently heard it suggested one of the qualifiers for a is keyboard control. Notebooks has this covered, and then some. The pro touch for me is the ability to edit your own keys in the. Keys can be edited to insert practically anything, including a special function that adds whitespace where the cursor will land.
Any matched punctuation pair can be setup using the.Notebooks comes with predefined sets of keyboard shortcuts, and users can define their own custom keysThis is one of those little touches that are more useful that you even realise at first. For example, I use standard for use with, so I setup a shortcut key that places an @ symbol between square brackets, using an ellipsis in the middle. Tapping the key types the characters, while placing the cursor in the middle.
I can then type my memorised key to signify the text I am working with. The keyboard shortcut looks like this: @. I have further keys set for markup with various HTML tags. I could go on, the keyboard functionality extends much further than this. Audio and Video RecordingsAudio notes are huge if you’re studying or researching. Whether its lectures, or dictated memos 4, cataloguing them in your general notebook gives them a frame of reference. If you use a separate app for recording audio, the files are often stored without context.
If you’re conscientious about naming files this can work, but nothing is more irritating than listening through the start of multiple recordings to find what you need. The same is true of video, which is rightly becoming a more recognised reference material.
Notebooks can display visual files in its dual document viewer, making it possible to review recording while taking notesNote taking from Audio Visual material is another way to make good use of Notebooks dual document support. Invoking the spit view is not limited to text, so reviewing material while taking notes can be done without needing to open another app. Structure Content with Contexts and Smart BooksSomething that drew me immediately to Notebooks was the flexibility for organising data. There are powerful tools for creating structure without locking users into any predetermined method.
The notebook metaphor can be maintained or subverted if you want to use the app as a file manager.Contexts are a concept taken from the popular method for organisation. I’m not big on the idea of totalising one’s life as a productivity machine, but the idea of contexts can provide a useful way to delineate different areas of work.
In practice contexts are uniquely useful for structuring notes and other content. When used with Notebooks smart lists, contexts can provide the basis for compiling a finished project. Document Processor and Compiler:Notebooks can process text in a number of ways. Individual texts, and books can form the basis of sections for much larger documents. I have extolled the virtues of plain text enough on this site, but it bares repeating. Plain text is future proof, adaptable and resilient. The underlying engine of Notebooks is built on these foundations.The plain text philosophy means Notebooks uses HTML for formatting, so with a little CSS, users can create custom styles from which Notebooks can compile PDF documents and ebooks.
If that sounds difficult, it’s really not. It comes with a selection of style sheets to get you started, including one with support. Using HTML means granular control over the finished product,There is also a kind of neat symmetry here for anyone who knows the. The original Hypertext Markup Language was built for exactly this reason, as a standard for sharing research documents.
This appeals to me as both an academic, and an unashamed geek. PDF AnnotationsThe Notebooks app has the popular framework available for PDF reading and annotation. This is the same framework used by, and, and includes thorough pencil support. On top of the deep annotation capabilities, the PSPDFkit framework provides nice page turning animations that give the app a more natural feel when working with PDF documents.This particular feature s available via an in-app purchase, which like the app itself is inexpensive. The PDF viewer costs US$4.49. Bonus Features Windows versionThis might not seem a big deal for iOS and Mac users, but Windows is everywhere. Apple users tend to forget this.
Microsoft devices have improved dramatically recently, and there are plenty of other reasons for cross pollinating platforms. Private Wifi Syncing and WebDAV supportI would like to see Notebooks add iCloud, and support for the iOS Files App, but the existing syncing options work well. Particularly pleasing is the consideration for privacy coded into the app via the Wifi option. If you have good reason for avoiding, syncing can be managed across a local network.
WebDAV support means Notebooks can also be synced via Synology and other private cloud solutions. The Question of Handwriting Until Notebooks has handwriting support, GoodNotes' on the fly OCR and excellent drag and drop support make it the ideal handwriting companionDevices like the iPad Pro are finally delivering on the long promise of matching the cognitive advantages of handwriting to digital convenience. At the same time, where handwriting recognition and inking engines have improved out of sight, the apps that deliver these tools can be limited. As such, I have come to think of handwriting apps as an interface for capturing notes.
Notes ultimately end up elsewhere, in, or.I have flipped between, and for handwriting. Nebo unquestionably has the best handwriting recognition, but the app hasn’t had much attention. Notability is a good self contained app if you can work with its limitations. However, I have returned to GoodNotes since it started generating searchable notes on the fly. Between the now instant OCR, and one of the best drag and drop implementations, GoodNotes is currently my favourite handwriting companion for Notebooks. Once a note is written, I open Notebooks and drag it from GoodNotes in slide over. The notes are preserved perfectly with the searchable layer.Handwriting is the most obvious missing feature of Notebooks at present, but it’s likely to be added in a future version.
If and when that happens, this already excellent tool will become a bonafide killer app. Until then, I still recommend it as a better place to store handwritten notes, and GoodNotes has the most compatible feature set right now. Final RemarksI say final, there is another post following with and url scheme automation. Despite this relatively lengthy post, there remains a lot I haven’t covered.
Nonetheless, I believe these highlights make Notebooks, in my opinion, the best general purpose note taking app on iPad for academic use. There is room for improvement, no doubt. I expect that handwriting will arrive at some point, and while the hooks are already deep in iOS further integrationI have a final superficial qualifier. If I am going to spend any amount of time working in an app, I want it to look good. No problems here, the understated minimalism and use of whitespace make Notebooks a handsome app. The scope of the article covers iOS. However, Notebooks is cross platform, with excellent versions on macOS and Windows.
Liquid Text has function for working with two documents, but it work vertically. Besides, Liquid Text is a world unto itself, so a subject for another time,. As opposed to dictating notes to text. If you know what MathJax is, chances are you have no problem with editing a few lines of HTML.
I’ll be honest, I wish the app cost more since I have come to reply on it. Given what it can do, I feel it is seriously under priced. It seems to get more buggy as iOS is incrementally updated.Categories, Tags,.
One of the best design tools you will find on macOS has just been released on iPad. When the iPad Pro line was updated last year, one of the most significant software developments was the excellent desktop class photo editing app. It's been on my list of ever since. The follow up to that release, Serif's means professional graphic design for iPad.
If you're looking for a desktop class design app for iPad this is worth a look.Design tools rarely make sense to me on the desktop. I have never quite grokked Adobe’s PhotoShop, or Illustrator. For my modest design needs I muddle through best as I can, but I undoubtedly prefer more accessible software. Flying Meat’s opened my eyes to powerful simplicity, then being able to move between devices made my app of choice. The recently released is a worthy addition to any design toolset, but it has left the iPad version languishing behind. The lack of relative feature parity betweens apps on Mac and iPad remains a stubborn barrier to realisation of the tablet’s potential. We still see a lot of minimal, companion style versions of Mac apps on iOS.
With the direction of development, ironically, Apple's forthcoming cross platform UIKit Framework says more about macOS at this point.Something that is clear, however, is the iPad simply makes sense as a design interface. Direct and tactile manipulation of images removes a layer of abstraction and — at least in my experience — makes it easier to learn the required interactions. At the moment, is relatively unusual among developers for their treatment of iOS as a serious professional platform equal to macOS. In the design space, the Affinity is suite is currently peerless as a result.Professional Graphic Design for iPadis a whole new level for graphic design software on iOS. From sketching, to fully realised vector tools and UI design, with everything in between.
Even with modest needs, having access to such an intuitive professional app makes learning faster and more enjoyable. Graphic design software is traditionally expensive too, and while some of the apps I have mentioned buck that trend, both Affinity apps are significantly cheaper on iOS. Even more so while the 30% discount is available for Affinity Designer's release. This might be an aspirational purchase for me, but for somebody with actual design skills wanting to do professional work on iOS, it's a no brainer.is available on the US $13.99.
MarzipanCategories Tags. Subscription App Store, is one of the first things I new Mac new users these days. From inception, the apps included in a membership were always impressive. Can meet the software needs of a large majority of Mac users, and the collection is constantly improving. The latest improvement is the addition of excellent, security focused email client.Setapp’s other email clients don’t work for me. Looks pretty, but it’s designed for Gmail, and I gave that vice up some time ago.
Is a contact focused client, which might be useful if your workflow is focused on particular people. But doesn’t work for a curmudgeon like myself.thing is security. It makes encryption more user friendly by integrating with the MIT and Keybase servers. End-to-end encryption is automated when both sender and recipient are Canary users, or can be initiated manually when sending to other clients. It is probably worth reiterating the point in my, about the recently discovered PGP and S/MIME exploit.
Using encryption is simply a good habit, and something an app like Canary can help with. However, nobody should be relying on email for genuinely sensitive information. If you need serous encryption for messaging, use.
But, securing the content of your mail is not the only security concern with email clients. Protect yourself from Email tracking with CanaryA feature I really appreciate in Canary is the ability to block email trackers. With all the talk of web tracking, I’m surprised I don’t see more about the tracking that goes on in email clients. While an extension of what happens on the web at large, email tracking is potentially worse for violating privacy. A 2017 paper from revealed the extent of the problem.About 29% of emails leak the user’s email address to at least one third party when the email is opened, and about 19% of senders sent at least one email that had such a leak. The majority of these leaks (62%) are intentional.
If the leaked email address is associated with a tracking cookie, as it would be in many webmail clients, the privacy risk to users is greatly amplified. Since a tracking cookie can be shared with traditional web trackers, email address can allow those trackers to link tracking profiles from before and after a user clears their cookies. If a user reads their email on multiple devices, trackers can use that address as an identifier to link tracking data cross-deviceIt goes on, if you want to read the whole paper you can find it. Beyond Image TrackingThe most common form of tracking is via invisible pixels.
This is why I advocate for switching off the ‘load remote images’ setting in whatever email client you use. The problem is, blocking images is a blunt tool, it can render some email unreadable. Canary is smart about blocking only the tracker pixel, so it doesn’t ruin the design of html email. Using Canary in conjunction with something like can mitigate many of the concerns raised about leaking your personal data via the seemingly innocent act of opening a newsletter.I am pleased to see turn up on.
I struggle to see how the proliferation of single-app subscriptions is sustainable in the long run. The outrage might have died down, but the set in. Setup is smart, it shows in the quality of the software they are offering. I cannot recommend it enough. Especially when a for students means over a hundred apps are available for US$5 a month.If you have no need for the full suite, Canary Mail is also available direct from the Appstore on both,. Categories Tags,. Presenting complex ideas in a clear, and simple way is as undervalued as it is difficult to master.
It doesn’t help that established presentation software is mostly dated, awkward, and time-consuming. Just as we have with, we have painted ourselves into a corner with presentation tools. Keynote can standalone as an alternative to Powerpoint. And yet, if you pressed me for a list of cool presentation tools, you wouldn't find either of those. It would be a short list, but you would definitely find there.is a presentation making app with an entirely different user experience. Especially if you’ve only ever used Powerpoint.
It seems Focus has become common currency in creative software of late, but Deckset delivers it in an unexpected way. Taking all the fuss, and fiddle out of presentation design by creating slick presentations from text files. With Deckset you can get back to what you should be doing, focusing on ideas. Presentation Software or Powerpoint by defaultIn 2013, Microsoft estimated there were 30 million Powerpoint presentations given per day. That figure is likely to have moved on considerably. Everywhere there are presentations, there is Powerpoint.
Just as Word has become synonymous with writing, and other text-based productivity, Powerpoint is the de facto byword for slide deck presentations. At the same time, Powerpoint is time-consuming, confusing and frustrating.
Despite efforts to trim the product, it carries the compound baggage of an ageing codebase, run through with compromise. Like most users of Word, I strongly suspect Powerpoint users are in the application by default.Deckset has the pedigree to follow the recent success of writing apps like, which continue to popularise a previously niche medium. A similar user base will find in Deckset an ideal alternative to Powerpoint, or Keynote. Even if you’re a wizard with one of those apps, I’d wager you could save yourself time, and get to the point quicker if honing the words, and not tweaking transition animations.I expect users will be largely self-selecting. Then again, I’m confident that many potential users don’t yet realise they should be part of that group. If the point is communicating ideas, then eliminating friction in the design of a presentation is paramount. Neat trick, is to build polished slide decks from the raw material of your content, the text itself.
You create the presentations from Markdown files, in a text editor. The slide deck itself literally gets out of your way while you concentrate on the message. Plain Text is Simply Plain, Text With Deckset, you create presentations in Markdown.
It comes with pre-loaded with example based tutorials like this to get your startedDespite the growing popularity alluded to above, there still exists a curious irony around the uptake of plain text utilities. Many prospective users seem concerned that plain text software will be difficult to use. In reality, the program left behind is often more complicated. Applications built around are some of the most simple and effective apps you will find for any purpose.I was latecomer to the joys of plain text. If only I could reclaim all the years flushed by grappling with rich text, word processors, and bloated slide-deck programs. A small amount of time learning to in Markdown can save you hours upon hours. The obvious gains are from time spent dealing with constantly shifting design elements, configuring and adjusting styles over and again.
But then, there are the more intangible gains from working with words in their raw form.Everything written about the focus of writing in plain text applies to slide deck presentations with. This is what makes it such an ingenious app. Just the same, if you’re still unsure about creating in Markdown, nothing can make this point better than a quick demonstration. The beauty of learning is you only have to see it to know how it works. It’s not code, it’s a clever markup language that translates into code.
With an app like, you can simply open up the template files, and you’re away. If you want a primer this is everything you need to know to get started using plain text productivity apps like,.
Markdown in a MinuteCreate headings with the hash symbol (#): # Big Heading## Slightly Smaller Heading### And so on.Use two asterisks on either side of words, or either side of a sentence to emphasise words in bold, like so:.bold type.Likewise, place an underscore on either side of a word, or sentence to emphasise in italics, like so: italicsUnordered, and ordered lists are intuitive. Each line starts with a hyphen, or numeral + period, like this:- Something- And, something else- Make up an unordered list1. Second item3. Item number threeIf you want to turn a word into a clickable link, place it in square brackets, followed by the link itself in parentheses: Anchor Word(www.yourlink.com)Explaining how to format a footnote is more complicated than making one, so it looks like this: ^1: This is a footnoteOr, you can do the same with a name ^Bentley-Payne, 2018: Something Completely DifferentWith this, you have everything you need to get started with.
There is more you can do with it, of course. There also exists a few variations on the original syntax, with flavours that support additional elements. The differences are always minimal, but the foundations always remain the same. User Experience, and Careful Decisions Deckset has everything you need for ecuational presentationsEnthusiasts and geeks like to talk about responsive developers. By all accounts the builders of, Unsigned Integer, have taken a user-centric approach to developing their app. There is nothing more responsive than improving an app with user feedback. Much requested customisation features in the new release allow users to create and share themes, or tweak existing one to suit their needs.
And, it’s not just about the nerds.For a seemingly geeky app, is welcome respite, either as a Powerpoint and alternative, or as a first slide deck app. The user experience scales from simple automated layout based workflows to more bespoke, and sophisticated presentations — and all without sacrificing itself to complexity. One gets the impression that behind every feature lies a careful decision.The considered approach is evident beyond the interface itself, with clarity a feature of the product on the whole.
For instance, clearly Unsigned Interger recognise the relevance of Deckset to education. Among the documentation there is a deck outlining features inherently important for teaching presentations. Tabular information, equation formatting, captioned images and videos, it’s all there.
As is rehearsal mode, speaker notes, and a PDF export function for class handouts. Taking the decision to leave the Mac App Store, means more flexibility in pricing. Deckset 2.0 is now available to education users for a. Goldilocks and the Slide Presentation ToolHaving run through its paces, I almost wish I had more presentations to give.
It would easily make my lists of current f. The revelation that slideshow software had become a sinkhole into which ideas themselves could easily fall persuaded me to all but give up on slide decks. Powerpoint is especially guilty. Although I find still has its uses, they’re mostly off-label, and fewer all the time.
For the past couple conferences, I’ve gone analogue, delivering from a piece of paper to the room. Deckset has turned my head back the other way, by finally providing a happy medium.If you want to take a look, Deckset offers a.
A single license is available for a one-time cost of USD $29. Or, if you’re an education user, you can request a generous. Octothorp. Sometimes a single asterisk on each sideCategories, Tags,. I’ve never enjoyed preparing slides for presentation. Even allowing for the improvements of Keynote over PowerPoint isn’t enough to make me enthusiastic., however, is an all together different proposition. If you write in, and want to simplify your presentation workflow, trust me this is for you.With the new release, Deckset has also gone sans App Store, which means it now has an education discount.The main reason for us to leave the App Store is greater flexibility in pricing.
For example, we are now able to offer a 50% discount to students, teachers and other members of educational institutions. That is something we simply couldn’t do before, and we feel it’s essential to reflect the realities of how and why people use Deckset.Time willing, a full review is in the works. Incidentally, as if the 30% tax isn’t obscene enough, it is absurd that Apple doesn’t facilitate this.Categories Tags,.
With all the being lavished on, it's easy to forget there are other excellent task managers out there. One such app is the wonderfully powerful, and endlessly customisable.
In my humble opinion, is one of the highlights in the collection, but it’s also available as a standalone purchase via the App Store. If you have been thinking of picking up a copy, there is no time like the present. The developer has been running a sale, which ends today.Available on the App Store, for and Categories Tags,.
Here we are again. It's probably obvious I don’t write this blog all day everyday. All the same, I would like to have gotten this out earlier than now. The first two posts in this little series — for the, and then the — had a more ‘productive’ focus. Essentially, they were about work of one sort or another.
The iPhone is different. It’s not that I never use it for any kind of work, more that I find more value in the other things it enables. Not in a million years would I shell out the criminal cost of this device if it were not for the camera, and thankfully the fun doesn’t end there. Among the best iPhone apps of 2017, these were personal highlights. Advancing InteractioniMessage has a way to go before it can match Telegram’s growing network of automated botsYes, I use Telegram. It's still the best cross platform message platform, and a surprisingly effective means for sharing, and transferring media files. IMessage has a way to go before it can match Telegram’s growing network of automated bots.
With one caveat, though. If much of what’s been written about Telegram’s encryption has been easily, should you have more serious encryption needs I would recommend,. I continue to enjoy the service Telegram would be dramatically improved by default end-to-end, standard public key encryption.The Keybase app is a front end for a public key directory that provides both secure communication, and verification of identity. I have used the Signal messaging app on and off for years, and while I trust the encryption it has never had the greatest user experience. There is more going on with Keybase, but it does an admirable job of making nerdy protocol easier to use. The effort to demystify public-key cryptography is something we should do everything we can to promote.Apollo is probably the best client for Reddit ever madeThis also made the, it’s even better on the iPhone. Clever touches like the make Reddit a less masochistic experience than ever.
Whether or not using Reddit more is good thing remains to be seen. Is a showcase of good design; an advertisement for the Apple design Day In, Day OutStreaks limits the number of habits you can track at onceGamification once seemed silly to me, then I got really.
I have since tried all manner of ridiculous methods for forming new, and better habits. Or indeed to break old ones. This is the only app of its kind that has stuck.
That it limits the number of habits you can track at once is part of its charm. Such sensible decisions run through the app. With Apple Health integration, has been a helpful form of pseudo-psychological trickery.Weatherline is exactly want I want from a weather app, clean, simple, and fast to read.Getting accurate weather data where I live can be difficult. There are no Weather Underground stations close enough. For accuracy, we tend to use New Zealand’s own Met Service, and their abominable app — if we have to. For the purposes of gathering data, historically, we have been left off the map down here. Uses, so data-wise it is a bit of a Hail Mary.
And yet, the forecasting hasn’t been too bad. The app itself is exactly want I want from a weather app, clean, simple, and fast to read. This is single purpose design done properly. Capture and FeedsI have tried many different notes apps, but I always end up back at DraftsI have tried many different notes apps, but I always end up back at. The fact that I can do so much with the text when I’m ready to process it makes it ideal. It says a lot about this app that despite how long it has been around, and despite how long I have used it, I still find new uses for it.
Yet again, it has genuinely been a highlight.Just Press Record is the the app that Apple's own Memo's should have beenStill my favourite vocal recorder on iOS. If you need a little more than the built-in memos app can offer, this is probably for you. It also has speech-to-text powers, which work about as well as anything else using iOS native dictation. As you can see from the screenshot, the results can be amusing. However, the transcription function is useful for searching recordings.
Automated cloud storage is nice peace of mind for important recordings.Lire’s granular full text caching, and clean readability make it an ideal foil for Feedly’s shortcomings.My frustrations with RSS clients are akin to those with email apps. I’d much rather be using RSS than email.
I still like the layout of Feedly’s official client, the magazine aesthetic is a better reading experience than most RSS apps. Unfortunately, it is buggy, slow, and like a lot of web wrappers it can be really annoying on iOS. Worse, it doesn’t support basic native in-text functions of iOS. Lire’s granular full text caching, and clean readability make it an ideal foil for Feedly’s shortcomings. Novel Shots and MomentosAs I mentioned at the outset, the camera is the reason I dream up excuses for owning this device. The native camera app is almost always good enough. If you're interested, the featured photo of this post was taklen with the native app.
There is no filter, and no HDR, it is simply a point and shoot from my balcony one evening. Having said all that, innovation in mobile photography means there are still discoveries to be made. Among the best iPhone photography apps in 2017, these were the ones I got a kick out of.With the range of impressive camera apps available for the iPhone, it can be difficult to know where to start, let alone where to land. Especially if your enthusiasm outmatches your knowledge. I could have chosen any number of apps, but if the challenge is to pick just one, this is it. Unlike a lot of other manual ‘power user’ cameras for the iPhone, ProCamera can shoot video. It also captures some the best HDR images I have seen.If you haven’t heard of it, VUE is a montage video camera and editor.
Even if what creates is nothing new, this app has always been a clever way to create short, and unique videos. Thankfully the developers have never given in to feature bloat. Changes, and new features have only ever enhanced the app.It is possible this app appeals more to me as a parent than anything, but I wouldn’t write it off too quickly.
It started life as a kind of memory experiment, which even became a. 1SE received some welcome attention for the iPhone X, adding — among other things — some automation for the nostalgic, but lazy, user. To be fair, I might fit the bill, if it weren’t for being a control freak too.I don’t care how you pronounce it, GIFs are lot of fun. Even more so when you can make your own. I also have a lot of family on Android who don’t know what a Live Photo is.
Musical Play TimeThe playful, rainbow coloured interface of Samplebot belies a neat, self-contained package of sound-mingling fun.You might have come across clever app. If you haven’t, let show you what it does.
On the road to building a pro version of Loopy, Tasty Pixel released this ridiculously fun little app. As much as it is clever way of testing the looping engine, the playful, rainbow coloured interface of Samplebot belies a neat, self-contained package of sound-mingling fun.If you ever wanted to make some beats but didn’t know how, Groovebox will get you startedThere are so many amazing iOS music apps these days.
I decided to highlight a couple of apps that absolutely anyone have some fun with, no matter how novice, or expert you might be. This kind of app is not new to iOS, we already have the likes of and, and Focusrite’s own.
Yet, with they really seem to have hit on the formula for accessible, semi-automated composition. Is free, but heavily extensible. If you ever wanted to make some beats but didn’t know how, this will get you started. Never mind the purists, this is what fun looks like. And still it feels indecent.
It’s worth repeating, Keybase takes a social approach that involves verifying identity, it is not an anonymous service. The next time you see a news cast with a world map in the background, see if you can find New Zealand. That is, if you already know where it should be. Where they are getting their data from for this part of the world is still a mystery. The transcription says “I wouldn’t recommend dictating your faces to it”. I actually said “dictating your thesis”.
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