Medium’s recent changes to allow you to use your own domain have me intrigued.
Still re-discovering people that I was following on Twitter before I deleted my account.
Plant Trees, Be Productive
Forest is an app that tries to help you concentrate by giving you the incentive of creating a digital forest. When the timer reaches zero without you leaving the app, a little tree grows. If you leave the app before the timer stops, the tree dies. Certainly a fun idea, but how long before the novelty wears off?
via Tools & Toys
Field Notes have joined the ranks of paper planners with their own take on a planner. I love the fact paper based tools like this are making a comeback.
via The Cramped
Brief assessment from using Tweetbot 4 for the last few days: Nice features but for me the official Twitter client is still my favourite.
At a buck or few per app, how could it be otherwise? That type of pricing will work for Angry Birds and a handful of other games, but very poorly for most other types of software products. The scale you need, the sustained influx of new customers, well, it’s a place for mega stars, and people who think they can beat the odds at becoming just that.
That’s why I’ve been discouraging people from chasing dreams of a successful, sustainable software product business by pursuing paid apps. Far better be your odds at succeeding with a service where the app is simply a gateway, not the destination.
— Don't Base Your Business on a Paid App by Signal v. Noise
Refreshing to hear an argument for web based subscription services that are proving be more financially stable and profitable than paid apps.
Always great to see what people have done for their first sketchnote.
Learning to #sketchnote with my new notebook at the ready. 1st page done! @rohdesign your Sketchnote Handbook is FAB! pic.twitter.com/vHwQgd1qnP
— Rachel Lilly (@RLillyPhotos) July 23, 2015via Sketchnote Army
Patrick Rhone is back from his personal retreat.
Like Thoreau’s Walden Pond cabin, each hermitage is a small, single room cabin with an attached screen porch. Each one is sparely appointed with just the essentials — a bed, a rocking chair, a small table, a couple of stations for washing and cooking, and a small altar for those who wish to pray. A delicious basket a food is supplied and refreshed daily — a couple of loaves of (oh-my-goodness-so-delicious!) homemade bread, some fruit, some local cheese, and some jugs of water. They have been doing this for years so every amenity is well thought out and centered around reducing any stress or desire.
— Some Thoughts on Solitude by Patrick Rhone
Sounds like the perfect place to disconnect from the digital world.
A superb autumn night captured by Ian Dick.
via iand.net
So you still can’t rename spaces in El Capitan then?