Expecting free upgrades for the complete lifecycle of a software product is ridiculous.
Didn’t even hesitate this morning to purchase Fantastical 2. For an app I use every day, it’s worth paying the upgrade price.
The B-52, Still Flying
This planning deficit is nothing unusual. It would be a tribute to Boeing engineers’ advance planning that the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat, er, Fella) is due to keep flying until at least 2040, when the airplanes will be octogenarians...except that the longevity has been achieved despite the best that military planners could do.
— The B-52 Just Keeps on Flying by Air & Space Smithsonian
Amazing.
DailyMuse: The Today View
Email is great. It's a reliable form of content delivery that can reach a multitude of devices and it's platform independent. Who cares if it's Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS or Android you're running? Email is the cornerstone of any platform, which is why it's the preferred delivery method for DailyMuse.
As great as email is though, I also like having alternatives to email, something as flexible as email but also accessible. I would open my DailyMuse email a couple of times a day, but quickly it became lost amongst other emails. I needed a way of seeing my DailyMuse message for the day without opening my email.
For a few weeks now there's been a Today view in the DailyMuse application. If logged in and you visited it you would see the last snippet that DailyMuse sent you. Fine and good, but it was rendered within the context of the application and I quickly realised that it became lost amongst the rest of the elements of the application. I needed a view of my snippet that was free of the context of the rest of the application.
This morning I added a link in the DailyMuse sidebar that will address this issue. At the top of the sidebar is a Today link that will render a colourful view of your snippet for the day that is free from the rest of the application so that you can have your snippet front and center on your web browser.
Here's my snippet for today:
Rather than sticking with default font sizes for all snippets, I've also tweaked the font size for snippets that vary in length. If your snippet is small in length the font size for it will increase so that it becomes easier to read.
This has been a planned feature for a while, but viewing the snippet within DailyMuse has never felt right. With this in place now, I'm happy with being able to view my snippet for the day in both email and in my browser.
Interesting in using DailyMuse? It's free for 30 days after which it becomes a budget friendly $2 per month to use.
Sounds harsh, but when you get emails every other day, they become just another “mail for the bin”.
I understand the motives behind such platforms and their push for positive change, but I’m at the stage where I simply bin their emails.
Uses for DailyMuse
Great to see DailyMuse making a positive change.
Those are the two things I’m using it for so far but I can think of many others — daily exercise ideas, healthy snacks and recipes, writing prompts, study of scripture or philosophy, etc. Basically, anything that would be good to have a daily reminder for would be a good fit for this.
— How I Use DailyMuse by Patrick Rhone
Interested in trying it out?
Fresh Ideas ...
... are everywhere. You just have to look.
Diary or Journal?
Who cares. Just capture.
A reminder that Twitter is the ultimate destructive distraction. Since returning, I've definitely not been as active as I was in the past and I'm hoping to keep it that way.
For me, from here on in, moderation is key. I've been calmer, happier, more present, and less anxious for the past few months. If I missed something on Twitter, it bubbled up to me in other channels. I'm going to remember that as I re-enter the network: no obligations, no robotics. This stuff is supposed to make my life better.
— The Great Twitter Unfollow by Gina Trapani