Tag: apps
ATmosphere apps
liste von ein paar ATmosphere apps und diensten die ich nutze oder interessant finde.
Why I built Flat, the now most-used app on my home screen
I have been using RSS for years. For this post I actually did the research math. I made my first steps on the internet around 1995. Ten years later, in October 2005, Google Reader launched and changed how I follow things on the web forever. That's almost 20 years ago. And I still believe RSS is the best way to keep up with the things I actually care about. Together with blogging, it is one of the few things that has stuck with me from the very beginning. RSS is also one of those technologies that never really died. The shutdown of Google Reader in 2013 was a short blow, but a wave of alternatives followed, each adding its own perspective. Over the last thirteen years I tried most of them, but eventually became a loyal user of Feedbin and Unread. Reading is no longer the default But over time something changed more fundamentally than the tools. The way I consume content changed. RSS started in a world of blogs and websites, basically text-first and lightweight. That is still part of…
Obsidian Reader
I was excited to see make this announcement last week: I use GoodLinks for saving most things I find on the web because it does great saving most things (and parsing text from most news outlets, including Apple News), highlighting is very easy in it, and I can easily export my highlights in Markdown to Obsidian (although in my desire to cure my digital hoarding disorder, I’m trying to do that less). However, this new element to the Obsidian web clipper app is really cool and I’ll probably use it...
Taio - a great Obsidian companion app
Someone on Mastodon reminded me that I wrote about Taio years ago. So I thought it would be a good time to revisit my use of Taio because, yes, I still use it with Obsidian. I mostly use Taio to access my .obsidian and .trash folders on mobile. These folders are hidden in the iOS system and not directly accessible via the Obsidian app. In Taio I can easily create and add .css snippets to my Obsidian vault or pull something out of the trash without having to go to my computer.
A trip down app memory lane
Here are a few apps that I once loved, but have since disappeared from the App Store. This app was the juiciest time killer of all time, especially during the workday. Geared towards college students, it had a lot of use in the D.C. area among interns and professionals. The content on Capitol Hill was just 👩🏽🍳💋 Obviously there was quite a bit of NSFW content on there, but the posts and exchanges were also frequently deep and wholesome. It eventually made a comeback, but it was never the same Yi...
Cleaning up my messy read-it-later workflod
My read-it-later and bookmarking workflow is a mess. Digitally, my stuff is just…scattered. Random tidbits in Apple Notes, links and notes in Obsidian, remnants from when I used Readwise and synced those highlights, articles I clipped to Obsidian using the web clipper and then forgot about, and interesting YouTube videos saved in every corner of my device. 👋 Hello, I’m Drea and I am a digital hoarder. I consume many different types of content from a variety of sources throughout my day. My consu...
Social Network Drift
Maybe the reason why social networks fade away over time is as simple as different generations wanting different experiences. Picnic, an emerging social network, exemplifies this point.
Self-Host All the Things?
In a world where every service wants to put you on a subscription forever, is now the time to start self-hosting your apps instead? Let’s look at the landscape.