Apps & Services
I love apps and enjoy testing new services to improve my workflows. These posts discuss my experiences with them.
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Challenge of the day: exporting posts from WordPress to Ghost
Well, well, well, it seems that data portability among CMS is an issue. Who knew! I’m trying to find an easy way to move a few posts from my WordPress blog into my Ghost website. Exporting data from WordPress seems like an all-or-nothing situation. There are a few plugins available for this. The problem is that the content isn’t easily imported into Ghost. The latter does have a plugin, but it doesn’t support selecting posts. Continue reading â
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I’m mostly done with my love letter to Cleanshot, a screen grabber utility for the Mac. I’m close to 500 words. I should be paid for doing this. Oh well… what passion can make us do…
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I Just Paid $50 to Wikipedia
I think itâs worth it and itâs important. The transaction was easy (Apple Pay), which makes a big difference. Consider this an impulsive buy. Continue reading â
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Micro.blog Officially Launches Support for Newsletters
So, as expected, yesterday Micro.blog introduced support for newsletters in the premium subscription tier. The official announcement follows: Today weâre announcing a major new feature for Micro.blog Premium subscribers: email newsletters. Micro.blog can now manage, letting readers subscribe to your blog and receive emails for new blog posts. Itâs deeply integrated into Micro.blog and works great for collecting multiple microblog posts together automatically. Here is why I upgraded my subscription plan almost instantly after the news came out. Continue reading â
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About Micro.blog Upcoming Update â Newsletter Support
Apparently, it looks like tomorrow, Micro.blog is going to add support for newsletters. A few weeks ago, I canât remember exactly, Manton posted a screenshot (which I can no longer find) where a ânewsletterâ item was shown on the left sidebar on the Micro.blog main site. Iâm very curious about Micro.blog take on newsletter. Micro.blog is all about simplicity without being too simplistic. If the feature is available to entry-level paid tier, Iâm might enable it and use it myself. Continue reading â
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Changing my Mind
Boooooo⊠Well, it looks like I changed my mind. I didnât remember that I wrote this blog post following the release of Ghost 4.0. At the time, I didnât see the benefit, but now, itâs quite another story. I really love Ghost and I think I made the right choice for a few significant reasons: Ghost comes with APIs, which enable all sort of possibilities to improve my workflow. Ghost editor is much more powerful than Substackâs. Continue reading â
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Big Update to Timery â I Love It!
Timery received a major addition in this weekâs update: REPORTS! As I wrote recently, Iâm tracking the time I spend on my blogging and content creation activities. Timery is my go-to client for Toggl, a time tracking service. Having access to reports within the application, instead of heading to the Tooglâs website is really helpful. Now, looking forward for Timery to support macOS Montereyâs Shortcuts! Continue reading â
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Readwise.io Reader App â A Potential Game Changer?
In a recent announcement by Readwise.io: We’re now in position to reimagine aspects of the digital reading experience itself, from how you annotate a document, to how you navigate. Readwise as you know it today isn’t going anywhere, but this is our future. And: With the new Readwise reading app, not only will these resurfacing and syncing features not go away, they will be enhanced through tight integration into the reading experience. Continue reading â
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Iâve been experimenting with time tracking. I’ve been doing it as an experiment at first, but now it’s part of my workflow. I’m using Toggl and Timery. Ask me anything.
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My Go-To Internet Destination for Reading: Mailbrew Website
I recently noted that Iâm spending much more time on Mailbrew website for my newsletters reading rather than in HEY Feed. Why is that? Well, I think there are a few sticky features in Mailbrew that helps me better process information tidbits. First, the reading experience is great. The âReadâ button next to a URL will bring a nicely formatted version of an article from a URL. Second, A âsaveâ button is handily available for me to use if I want to keep a piece of information for later use. Continue reading â
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Iâm thinking about subscribing to Instapaper and Readwise to help me gather and manage text quotes and other tidbits. The former is a âclassicâ while the later seems a work in progress and not exactly easy to grasp for me. Your thoughts?
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The race is on. Canât wait for the moment Notionâs APIs go live and Craft be updated to support them so it can suck all my data from Notion. #notionhq #craftdocs
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Anyone using @Readwiseio here? My trial expired. A few thoughts: their app feels âstrangeâ; like a big âwebviewâ. Workflow not yet clear to me. No Safari Extension support. Not cheap. Seems popular. Youâre thoughts?
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HEY World, it's now official! (#hey #heyworld #blogging)
They flipped the switch to ON. HEY World is LIVE! I’m so glad, curious and already excited to use this other channel to share my written content with the world. I’m already thinking about my first post on this new platform. Furthermore, I think this addition brings even more value to an already useful service, on which I depend every single day. Recently, I asked: How many websites can a blogger have? Continue reading â
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Anyone here using Mastodon? If yes, why? Should I cross-post from here? Which one should I join? Tell me more. I’m not really aquainted with this platform.
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On Spoonbill (#twitter #mailbrew)
I recently published a long piece about transforming your Twitter experience by using Twitter lists instead of following a bunch of accounts. As noted in the article, one side effect of this approach is that services that look for your Twitter accountâs list of people you follow wonât really work. Thatâs the case for a new service called âSpoonbillâ. Keep updated on your friends’ and family members’ bios, websites, locations, and names. Continue reading â