Love the playful interaction designed in this simple score keeping app. Looking forward to just using this!
Note to self: It’s not just about the solving a problem, but how you solve the problem.
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Scorekeeper: Things that make people happy!
A handy (& wishful) Alfred App tweak
I’m a big fan of Alfred App. The stats just on my machine at work read:
Since 21-May–2011, Alfred has been shown 1,149 times. Average 18.8 times per day
Like everyone, I’ve found my own unique ways of using it. Today I thought of one more which could be quite handy. Quite often I run into text where it’s hard to make out a capital O from a 0, a capital I from a lowercase l. If I could change Alfred app’s default font to a console font, a quick copy and paste into alfred could be very useful.
Here’s a screenshot to illustrate:
I love the Alfred App team for sticking to simplicity & I respect that. Just throwing a suggestion out there.
Byword is the new Writeroom
I love writing my mails and blogposts in Writeroom and I’ve been a big fan since I found out about it around 3 years ago. Yesterday though, I switched sides and bought Byword after I read Roberto’s post. From his blog:
I already switched from WriteRoom when Byword came out for longer writings, but with Markdown support, this is now the tool.
Roberto had tried to make me adopt Markdown when we were in Oslo, but the lack of built in support in Writeroom was always the showstopper for me. Now there is no excuse and I decided to give it a try. Loving, Byword & Mardown, so far.
Might try QuickCursor in a few days as well.
Recommended Mac app: QuickCal
I’d really recommend QuickCal if, like me, you also:
- Use iCal regularly
- Don’t like to keep it running as it just sits there most of the time
- Like the idea of using plain english to add stuff to iCal
- Would like to have a quick and simple way to add and view events
After setting it up, now I can quickly press:
- “
Shift + Cmd + C” to add a new event in plain english (love the feedback from the different fields that get filled in as you type) - “
Shift + Cmd + X” to get an overview of your days appointments
I had been reading about Fantastical the past few days, but I think it’s a bit overdone design wise. Feels “bulky”. And it costs more than 15 times the price of QuickCal ($0.99).
Update: Quickcal does not support caldav sync, which means you need to keep iCal running all the time otherwise the events you create will not be synced (until you run iCal). This might be a problem for some (like myself).
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Navjot Pawera (aka Nav)
UX, UI, Product design guy. These days, I'm working on creating new stuff at Bubble Motion. I am a silent partner at ExtraThought - a user experience design consultancy. I also curate the IXD Sessions in Singapore.