Apps and Technology
It seems my recent NordVPN purchase and download may well be responsible for the missing emails. 💻
My first (as far as I know) experience with important emails disappearing who knows where? in Apple Mail. Company definitely sent them, but they’re not in Junk, nor anywhere to be seen.💻
Look at me using microhooks to customise my new blog, like a big-boy. 💻
I’ve also set up another blog that I plan on using to show how I use Apple native apps and Ulysses to plan my writing. 💻
Right then. Now I’m back using Micro.blog as my primary hub, I’ll spend a few hours tomorrow making sure everything is up to date (reading list, etc). 😐💻
The Double Tap gesture on Apple Watch 10 is beautiful. 💻
Does anyone else still use Apple Journal and are you also having issues since iOS 18? Mine won’t show Podcasts in ‘recents’. Generally it had ‘Morning Walk while Listening to…’, but since the update it’s totally unreliable. Music wasn’t showing for a little while, it’s suggesting time at home as a ‘visit’. 💻
My Apple Watch is suffering horrendous battery drain since I updated it to 11 this morning. 💻
They’ve removed the Siri watch face on WatchOS 11. Not happy at that move. 💻
Delighted to see Reminders finally visible in the Calendar app with iOS 18. Apple may be slow, but they get there eventually. 💻
Again, having to Google how to do something that should be simple on an Apple device (deleting all downloads from Apple Music) shows that it’s an appalling experience trying to navigate the Apple ecosystem at times. 💻
My, quite frankly, promiscuous flirtation with whatever app looks pretty at any given time is stopping me from actually being productive. 💻
I’m starting to see the benefits of using Scrivener over Ulysses for my planned novels. Don’t get me wrong I still adore Ulysses, but once the way Scrivener works clicks its potential starts to become clear. 💻
And Apple autocorrect is adding random words and letters again, terrific. 💻
Just when I dip my toes back into Ulysses for writing, for the first time since I started using it the app is glitching. I’m not losing anything, but it’s certainly making life difficult for me. 💻
Having a dig around Scrivener again. No idea why, as I love Ulysses, but I stilll have that nagging doubt in the back of my mind that I’m missing out on Scrivener’s organisational capabilities. 💻📝
Does anyone have any experience with the Starling hub? Sounds a bit too good to be true to get Google Nest products working in HomeKit. 💻
Still liking the feel of Apple’s Journal app, particularly the way it pulls in Activity, Podcasts, Music, etc. Find it a little irritating that it doesn’t automatically do the same for audiobooks. 💻
Haven’t been spending a lot of time on Micro.blog recently, which I’m beating myself up about because I started the year with such high aims. Nothing I can do about the missed writing except to try and pull myself out of the fug. 💻😐
Apple products are fantastic until something so irritating that it makes me want to gnaw my arm off falls through the gap. 💻