What’s changed this month over July:
- I’ve begun using the Drafts app to quickly capture text. It’s been on my radar for years now. I love their tagline Where Text Starts, and I see now how the design’s been optimised to quickly capture and then process text. At this time I don’t need the Pro version, which has a subscription. In fact, I am going to explore using Copied as a replacement for Drafts. Copied is a clipboard manager on the iPhone, iPad and the Mac that I already extensively use many times a day, but only to clip text and images from reader apps and Safari, not yet to create new notes. So my use of Drafts may not be that long-lived.
- Speaking of Safari, my move to Firefox on iOS was short-lived. The app is simply not as frictionless as Safari at little things, including opening a new tab and sharing web pages. The deal-breaker: some of my Shortcuts expect Safari Web Pages as input, as opposed to just URLs, so they break in Firefox. This is not Firefox’s fault, but that is the way iOS is.
- I’ve begun relying more on Microsoft’s Todo app to manage different non-day-job projects I’m working on, as well as to remind myself of maintenance tasks around the house. It’s made it to my dock.
- Finally, in its place on my home screen is the Fitbit app. We’ve seen me talk more about my use of the wearable lately, as I use it more regularly. However, the placement of the app is for me to log my water intake, available as a home screen quick action.