

What app do you know you’re underutilizing? But I do still use Drafts for capturing a cartoon idea if one pops into my head half-formed - I love the way Drafts greases the path to capturing first, and working out what to do with that text afterwards, which in my case is an action that appends the string to a text file of captured ideas that’s kept in Dropbox. Hey Siri on my Apple Watch has taken over an important function that I used to use the iPhone for - capturing task thoughts to my inbox as they occur to me, GTD style. I don’t spend a lot of time on it, but if I have to pick something, I guess I’ll be boring and say Mail - it’s boring, but true. I’m not sure I’d describe my time on the phone as productive. I’m an information omnivore, and I love gathering interesting articles from around the web by following the RSS feeds of clever people who’s instincts I trust. It’s one of those moments when I have to pinch myself, that I’m actually doing what I’m doing from my phone. On occasions when I have to make emergency changes or tweaks to my website from my iPhone, the combination of Textastic (code/html editing), Working Copy (a full, elegant Git client on a phone that integrates with Textastic!) and Prompt (the SSH client from Panic) is magic.

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I love it - it’s a brilliant rethink of how to make a calculator easy and useful! So although these days I don’t need a calculator nearly so much, and actually have the official HP15C emulator app stowed away in a folder on my phone for nostalgia, Soulver is the calculator that makes me grin from ear to ear every time I need to work out something simple or complex. RPN is kind of like the calculator equivalent of a Dvorak keyboard on a computer – much more efficient for difficult calculations, but as mind-bending to learn and use as it’s name suggests. When I originally studied engineering, we all had the classic engineer’s calculator, the HP15C, which used something called Reverse Polish Notation.
