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Multiple journals in Day One.

by F. E. Torkel on January 30, 2013

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 [...]

Leaving Simplenote.

by F. E. Torkel on January 23, 2013

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 [...]

The new Jawbone UP.

by F. E. Torkel on November 13, 2012

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 [...]

The sudden rise of app.net.

by F. E. Torkel on October 10, 2012

A couple weeks ago I started drafting an article on app.net (ADN) clients, and in that short timeframe the ADN landscape has already shifted. At the time there were two ADN clients in the App Store: Rhino, and Adian. The former was free, while the latter ran $4.99. My immediate thought in regards Adian’s pricing [...]

The apps I bring to the gym.

by F. E. Torkel on August 31, 2012

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 [...]

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