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 [...]
When I finally got around to talking about which pens I use, I came to the conclusion that of the two I favored (the Pen Type-A and the Render K), the deciding factor for which one someone should buy was where they planned to use it. The Pen Type-A seemed better at home on one’s [...]
I started out as a pencil guy, which I’d say is natural seeing as kids grow up to use pencils in school and not pens. To me, pens were too business and didn’t embody creativity. Pencils were all about sketching out ideas, and something about the scratchy gray lines left behind by a pencil evoked [...]
While people love to talk about how intuitive touch is as an interface method, the cold reality is that for certain applications, legacy input formats still reign supreme. For example, for writing, there is no unseating the keyboard in one format or another, as writing by hand is slow and cumbersome for longform input. 1 [...]