We’re in the first day of Daylight Savings Time, the switch to which is always perilous for my sleep hygiene. I do prefer DST to Standard Time, though, so it will be a welcome change once my body adjusts. Rhonda and I have to pick up the groceries at 2 pm, and then it will be spritzes and cheese before dinner; we hit Rocco’s last night for dinner, and the prime rib was delicious.

Interact Scratchpad

I’ve been subscripting to Drafts for iOS (and eventually the Mac) for a long time. Drafts’ developer, Greg Pierce, has created a number of incredibly useful small apps over the years besides Drafts, including Tally, which I use to track my calories when I’m out and about, and Simple Scan, which is my go-to app for scanning documents on my phone.

Interact Scratchpad solves a problem I didn’t know I had, but after one use, I realized what an itch it scratches. You paste some text into Interact Scratchpad that contains someone’s contact information (an email is the obvious use case), and the app parses the text and creates a new contact in your Mac’s Contacts app.

Apple: The First 50 Years

I preordered David Pogue’s new book, Apple: The First 50 Years. Apple’s never been a company to look backwards, and are famously willing to axe entirely successful products in favor of new directions. It’s a perfect match, having Pogue do the looking back. I read the Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, and Brent Schlender’s and Rick Tetzeli’s biography as well, the latter being better, in my opinion. I hope there’s some good stuff about NeXT’s acquisition of Apple in this one.

Inkwell

Micro.blog recently offered a new feature/app, called Inkwell. It’s an RSS reader that’s connected to your Micro.blog account. It offers “Today,” “Recent,” and “Fading” views of your feed. I uploaded a subset of my RSS subscriptions from FeedBin to Inkwell to see how it works. It’s browser only for now. The Mac is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RSS readers, and this is another (platform agnostic) cool option.