How to Value Journaling
I started journaling before it was cool. Okay, it was never cool and will probably never be cool. But, I did start the practice and developed a habit around recording my everyday activities, plus additional...
Apps
The Layering of UX Friction
It's a phone upgrade year in my household; I'm grabbing the new iPhone 17 Pro, while my wife is upgrading to a Google Pixel 10, and both of our parents are...
The Underwhelming State of Digital Family Calendars
I guess there's real demand for easily visible family calendars. The NY Times recently featured an article on the Skylight Hearth calendar: essentially a vertically mounted touchscreen monitor, dedicated to running a subscription...
Workflow-Centric Computing
Depending on what you consider to be the genesis of mobile devices, it's been somewhere between 1 to 2 decades since smartphones and tablets have overtaken personal computers as the primary computing gadgets—...
A Ballad of Browser Tabs
Let's talk browser tabs for a sec. I read this newsletter about how someone kept all their browser tabs open: partially, as reminders to open tasks as a rough to-do list, but also as historical relics for reminiscing over past browser behaviors. As they waxed poetically about the archaeological significance of accumulated clutter,...
Multi-Interface Apps
With this year's iOS17 and iPhone 15, the improvements aren't exactly life-changing: a Standby mode that adds a bunch of dim widgets when the phone is statically charging; more customization options for widgets overall across the lock screens, notification areas, and even on macOS; assorted additional settings for end users; grab...