![]() ![]() (There is a bit of cheating since the last few minutes is a slide show of pictures from around the world.) You can set these from 5-30 minutes in length and get a run down of the daily headlines. They have created an iOS app that creates dynamic newscasts. Reuters is best known as a wire service, providing a lot of the global and national coverage that other news outlets use. The phrase Social Media Zero is just a terrible sentiment.īuy it?: If you’re looking for a more organized way to browse Twitter, check out Storyline. What Sucks: Can’t go back and see tweets you marked as read. What’s Good: Easy way to skim your Twitter feed by user rather than by time. I wonder how much demand there is for a supplemental Twitter app, but this is well done and is helpful to pick and choose who to read. You can’t create new tweets from the app, but you can retweet or reply. You can jump through get a couple of key friends you like to follow closely, but you day to day list is unchanged. This is an app that you can use to catch up on a day when you were to busy to check Twitter. Those arguments seem to miss the point of Storyline. For example, you should prune your subscription list if you feel overwhelmed. I can see a lot of arguments against the app. This can be kind of annoying if you swipe too far and miss a tweet. Once you read the tweet it is gone from the app. The app has a simple presentation of all the people you follow in alphabetical order with their tweets for the last day. (This also filters everything down to just people’s actual tweets, filtering out a lot of noise.) On the other hand, creating the phrase Social Media Zero, should net one a swift kick to the ass. Sometimes you’re just looking for a couple of people at a time, or you just want to skip over news sites. The first is that present an easy way to quickly go through your Twitter time line by user. Download it from the developer for $9.99 Existing users get the update for free. I’ve run into weird issues with a limited spell checker in the app.īuy it?: Hemingway is a great web app that’s got a great desktop app. What Sucks: Only good for a specific kind of writing. What’s Good: Good editing tools that help you spot common mistakes in writing. For the latter, refer to the style guide given to you by your instructor. For the former, you’ll need to make sure that you find a voice that doesn’t sound like a punched up Buzzed article. This app can be a lot of help with articles and business writing, but I wouldn’t recommend this for creative or academic writing. Also, I haven’t run into the scrolling issues I had with the initial Mac version of the App. The update gave the interface a bit of an upgrade as well. You can now export your formatted text to Word or Markdown formats. The update brings better editing tools, bringing controls for style, indentation, lists, and links. The app flags passive voice, adverbs, and unnecessarily complex words. There’s a lot of red when I do my first drafts, but it helps. When you try to make the long, multi-clause sentences that I like to make, it ends up highlighting those as difficult to read. Granted, it’s focused on punchy, short-sentence style. Hemingway Editor is the writing app that nags you before you turn in your draft. Help for the app is in a few different places.īuy it?: If you’re looking for a bloat free approach to task management, check out Taskmator. What Sucks: Some of the advanced features involve a bit of fiddling with the settings. I’ve been using it to replace my pen and paper lists, allowing me to get a better way to keep track of running tasks and what projects they apply to. You can change fonts and colors in the app giving you install a custom look, but there is a lot of flexibility to use this app the way you want. This certainly isn’t for everyone, but it I like simple. ![]() The sync is all done via Dropbox, so you can actually go through and see all of your to do lists, folders, etc as You add a reminder by adding with the date and time you would like to be reminded. There’s also an interesting way to create reminders. You can add tags to make it easy to search for tasks across multiple projects. You can then create projects, tasks, and notes. Depending on the complexity of the task, you can either create a folder or a sheet to set up your projects. This is because everything is done via text. This makes it really easy to edit things on the fly, you can even use a text editor in a pinch. ![]() I don’t use Taskpaper, but I was a big fan of the way that it organized everything into simple text files and folders. Taskmator is based on Taskpaper, and can use the same file for your Mac. There is a glut of to do lists on iOS, but most of them tend to be either a bit wonky on the inputs or so overly fiddly that you never get around to getting anything done. ![]()
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