Almost a year ago I wrote about using the journaling app Day One. I wasn’t fully on-board with using it as a daily journal, and at the time limited use of the app to tracking quantified self information gleaned from other apps. These tend to be activity-specific apps, like Livestrong’s MyPlate, or Azumio’s Heart Rate [...]
A couple years ago when I wanted a way to access plaintext files via the cloud, my search brought me to Simplenote, a service that lives up to its name. I had previously experimented with Evernote but found it to be overkill, and the lack of plaintext conservation was annoying.1 For some time I was [...]
Last month I reported on my last dead UP band, and that I sought yet another replacement. This was at a time when the one-year anniversary of the Jawbone UP was due, and I wondered what that meant for previous customers: Of course, the one-year anniversary is the ideal period to announce the new, re-engineered [...]
There are plenty of workout-related apps in the App Store, and while I’ve played with many of them, none offered all the features I wanted in a reasonably minimalist package. So for over a year now, I’ve relied on a combination of non-workout apps to assist me in the gym. More specifically, there are three [...]