Smartsheet is exactly what the name implies; It’s a smart spreadsheet that goes way beyond lists. As someone that makes a living as a project manager I think SmartSheet is just great. I also put my money where my mouth is and pay $16 per month to use it.
This week’s update adds support for in-line images on rows.
More than any other tool I use, SmartSheet is actually enjoyable and helps me solve real problems.
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.
What a fantastic analysis of the mistakes robots make
On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (e.g. “October 14th”) in the Google Ngrams database since 2000. Most of the large days are pretty much what you would expect: July 4th, December 25th, the 1st of every month, the last day of most months, and of course a September 11th that shoves its neighbors into the margins.
From Mike Hearn:
Think about it. If you had never heard about Bitcoin before, would you care about a payments network that: Couldn’t move your existing money Had wildly unpredictable fees that were high and rising fast Allowed buyers to take back payments they’d made after walking out of shops, by simply pressing a button (if you aren’t aware of this “feature” that’s because Bitcoin was only just changed to allow it) Is suffering large backlogs and flaky payments … which is controlled by China … and in which the companies and people building it were in open civil war?
This is a really good review that covers a lot of the Interact features.
$70 is a lot of money for a text editor but I think this article makes a pretty good case for taking the leap. It’s my primary working tool on both Windows and the Mac. I think it’s great and I think it’s worth the price.
One of the first modern Mac apps that I really loved was Circus Ponies Notebook. I bought so many copies of that app for everyone I knew with a Mac. Sad to see them go.
Here’s a funny little presentation from the creator of Pinboard, Maciej Ceglowski. There’s some mild shaming but it feels mostly like desperate pleas for sanity. As computers get faster, the web gets slower and design gets worse. The Vimeo page is 2.41 MB after blocking 8 trackers.
This is a terrific Vimeo short film. It’s high quality and tells an entire story in undfer 9 minutes.
About damn time. I’ve been so looking forward to this. This is a situation where membership is totally worth it.
