New-to-me Apps Worth Trying
I wanted to share some of the apps I've recently started using as they might be of interest to someone out there. It's always a good feeling to find an easy to use solution to a problem or task - and some of these are just that!
- Capacities: This first app is a personal knowledge management app. It seems like these are a dime a dozen these days and they all work differently; I think that's great though because we all have different brains and ways we process information and the world around - the trick is finding a solution that works for you. Capacities, so far, is this for me. I'd been using Obsidian (which is a great tool) but it's a bit too open. Capacities solves that for me so far. The two primary pieces that are really gelling with me are how central daily notes are and then, how everything is an object. The object oriented approach especially is really helpful. I'd encourage checking it out if you are looking for a PKM solution; they offer both free and paid options.
- Unread: I struggle with RSS these days. Presently, I'm back to Unread to see if it'll sort me out (but I'm not hopeful).
- Vivaldi: Vivaldi is a great web browser alternative. I highly recommend it. It's chromium based without the extra google junk that Chrome has. Check it out if you haven't already!
- Warp: I've been trying this alternative Mac OSX terminal and it's nice! I'm undecided so far but I am liking how it works.
- Sleeve: Sleeve is a little tiny utility that lives on my desktop and exists basically to funnel songs played in Apple Music to Last.FM so that I can do my music collages every week. It works great!
- Hello Weather Beta: I recently got invited to the Hello Weather beta. I've been a user for the last 8 months are so of the previous version but am liking the changes in the beta so far, especially that weather alerts are easier to find and engage with.
- Glass: I won a free year of this Instagram alternative. I like a lot of what it does and represents but I'm struggling to figure out how exactly it fits into my workflow. I'm not giving up but I'm not sure if it will stick longterm.
- Musebox: At the encouragement of Lou who reviewed it, I started using Musebox to act as an alternate photo library for my higher quality, more prized photos (those I've framed as art in the past, as example). It's working well so far.
- Airshow: I'm giving this a solid try as a podcast player. I've not been happy with podcast players in a long time. I'm hoping this will be the one.