I’ve been a Mindmeister subscriber for a few years and a “Business” level subscriber since we started work on TapCellar for iOS. It’s one of my favorite collaboration tools because multiple people can work on the same map and the integrated task management is nice when you share a deadline.
This is an extraordinary deal. Mindmeister is normally $120 per year for a “Pro” account so $35 for two years is a huge savings.
While splurging on a piece of rubber, I was pleasantly surprised by a new method of buying items through a web page. In addition to using the normal options of credit cards or Paypal, Cozy Industries also offers Apple Pay.
After clicking the Apple Pay button I was asked to enter my cell phone number to receive a text message. The text message contained a link to open the purchase in an iOS app called Checkouts.
I have three primary reasons to use an Apple Watch.1 The first one is to tell time. The second one is to get notifications from my wife. The third reason is to talk to a little app called Drafts.2
The Apple Watch is not good at email. It’s never in sync with my phone and reading back my latest message through the watch is a long road to disappointment. It’s only moderately good at calendars, given the limited space to show a busy schedule.
Did you know you can long press on the zero key to access the degree symbol on iOS? Why would you? Who has the time to long press on 97 keys just to figure out how to access a the ‰ key on iOS? 1
Somehow we’ve become stuck in the old model of keys anchored to a fixed point on a keyboard. Long pressing on a virtual key and switching keyboard layouts has lost its novelty for me.
OmniGraffle is one of the most generally useful apps on my Mac and iOS devices. The Omni Group is dramatically improving the app through third party stencils available through their “Stenciltown.” Version 2.0 adds options to upload and bookmark stencils. Check out the embedded video below:
This week’s update to 2Do for iOS is really clever. The new task email integration is exactly what I’d want if I were in the market for a new task manager (which I’m not). Routing emails to someone else’s servers to create tasks with them, 2Do for iOS connects directly to your own IMAP email and scans for messages to create tasks from. The “capturing” rules have a lot of options for parsing addresses, flags and subject lines.
The Hit List has been around for ages but it looks like Karelia has been pushing it forward since acquiring it. The latest release adds support for all of the modern iOS 9 features like 3D Touch and iPad Multitasking. The Hit List isn’t the application I use but it looks to be a top competitor in the task manager arena.
If you have numbers to add, where do you go? If you’re like me you probably open a calculator app on your phone. Do you worry about what you need to do with the result?
What about words? Where do you go if you have something to write? I’m sure a lot of people worry about where they want the words to go before they decide how to even start writing.
This is a really good review that covers a lot of the Interact features.
Agile Tortoise, makers of Drafts app for iOS, just released a new contact manager. I’ve been on the beta for a while and I’ll be honest, it took me some time to appreciate what it does.
The revelation for me was to think of Interact more as an extension than an app. If you’ve ever used a natural language calendar to create appointments, Interact is like that for contacts. Just send some text with contact data into Interact and it does all the parsing for you.
