I probably use my phone for scanning documents at least once a day. From wonderful artwork from my kid, to business cards and reference documents, I scan a lot. I jumped on Scanner Pro for iOS early and used it until it felt stagnant. I’ve cycled through more scanning apps on iOS than weather apps, and that’s saying something and since moved on from Scanner Pro.
This week’s update to Scanner Pro is significant and now elevates it into the same category as my beloved Scanbot and is a viable contender for my scanner of choice while on the go.
I really like Monument Valley. It’s a puzzle game with great design that also somehow relaxes me. By far, my favorite levels were in their ProductRed package released earlier this year. The puzzles were harder and the ideas were fresher.
Now you can get those same levels for free inside the latest Monument Valley update.
This is the Best.
I mentioned Todoflow, a python module for working with Taskpaper files, back when I first started using the system full time. It has a lot of the core query support of TaskPaper right from Python.
Now, the same module is available through an Editorial workflow. The workflow automatically installs the module if needed and supports advanced queries and result folding. It adds some minor enhancements to the TaskPaper query syntax (like a “today” term) but does not support parenthetical (nested) expressions.
Editorial for iOS is great without much additional work. Slide your finger on the extra keyboard row to move the cursor. Tap the document title to do a word search with highlighting. Preview Markdown simply by swiping to the preview window.
If you use it as much as I do, you may find these additional macros useful. Editorial is a means for working with text and often it can seem like a heavy IDE that requires a huge time investment.
I think these three consecutive articles describe the current problem pretty well:
The original report from The Register
We completely cracked the keychain service - used to store passwords and other credentials for different Apple apps - and sandbox containers on OS X, and also identified new weaknesses within the inter-app communication mechanisms on OS X and iOS which can be used to steal confidential data from Evernote, Facebook and other high-profile apps.
If you own an iOS device and use words a lot you probably have Editorial on your home screen. Hi, me too. Today we get to rejoice because it’s the annual update of Editorial!1
I’ll save some general discussion about iOS text editors for the end because I think most people just come to find out what’s new. If that catches your attention you might stick around to find out a bit more about how I use this stuff all day, every day.
2Do is really interesting and well designed. The iOS version is free for one week only and the Mac version is on sale too.
From the 1Password blog (which is totally worth subscribing to):
It all came to a head when we were on a business trip and in a meeting with a handful of individuals whose opinions we really respect. With our usual gusto we showed off 1Password for Apple Watch and…it fell flat. Out of the five people in the room with us, only one person was genuinely excited about. They say two outta three ain’t bad.
The first time I mentioned Taskmator for iOS it was a year ago and it was a newly fixed successor to TaskPaper.1 As a reminder, TaskPaper for iOS was removed from sale and the source code was made available as open source. The developer of Taskmator cleaned up the original TaskPaper and fixed a number of major bugs on iOS 7, including issues with Dropbox syncing. Here we are a year on and Taskmator is showing that it’s not just a dev and dash project.
My thanks to Pagico for sponsoring Macdrifter this week. The new version looks fantastic. It looks so good that I’m running a longer than usual ad copy. Pagico runs on multiple platforms, makes reference material a core feature (like I do) and syncs everywhere.
Some apps are great at managing projects & tasks, and others are great at managing data. Pagico 7 is one of the few apps that combines data organization with task management into one easy-to-use package.
