The Back to Mail promotion running right now has some great plugins for Mail.app users. I always come back to Apple Mail after trying the other (admittedly great) apps on the market. The two reasons for that are overall system integration (AppleScript, mostly) and the plugins that are available. Pretty much every plugin I’ve used and loved is on sale for 50% off, thanks to this promo.
deals, mail
You can now subscribe to a monthly PDF magazine featuring the amazing writers in the Read & Trust network. If you’re a reader and you enjoy excellent writing from top-notch thinkers and authors, you want this.
readandtrust, writing
nvNotes is a relatively new app for iPhone that emulates the note-taking style of Notational Velocity (and nvALT). With the omnibox search you can quickly find all related notes or start a new one immediately, and it makes taking notes a breeze and finding them simple.
apps, giveaway, ios
I just added FioWriter to iTextEditors today. It’s a pretty great idea for an iPad text editor: it adds Command and Option keys to the keyboard, so anyone who’s used to standard OS X text editing operations can use it in a very familiar way.
ios, ipad, texteditor
I didn’t sleep much this week, and I thought that I was going to do a horrible job of talking with Michael Schechter for today’s episode of Systematic. Somehow, he made it work, and we had a great conversation about ADHD, Tesla, Apple & Twitter and more ADHD.
podcast, systematic
If you’re on the list and you haven’t seen the email from me, let me know. Have fun with Textastic! If you didn’t win, you should grab it while it’s still on sale (50% 0ff).
giveaway, ios
If you’re a Chrome user, you’ve probably found that you can do a lot more than just browse the web within the application. Now you can edit Markdown, too. Enter TextDown, by Joao Colombo.
chrome, markdown, plugin
I’ve posted Slogger 2 to Github. It’s not finished, polished or perfect in any way, but I’m low on time and wanted to at least make it available if anyone wants to pitch in. If you have no idea what Slogger is or why anyone in their right mind would name something that, here’s the origin story.
logging, slogger
I mentioned this was coming on the last episode of Systematic: Drafts 2.0 and Drafts for iPad are out. If you’re looking for a solid and elegant solution for inputing notes, tweets, emails, markdown text or just about anything you can type on your iOS device, this one is perfect.
apps, ios, ipad, iphone, review, texteditor
I reviewed Textastic recently, and had a lot of good things to say about it. Textastic for iPhone is now available as a separate application, and it boasts all of the features of the iPad version. If you want to edit code/Markdown on the go, this is an amazing app.
giveaway, ios, iphone, texteditor
George Entenman recently wrote a blog post where he expressed confusion over some of the things I talk about, build, or endorse. I wanted to take a moment to respond as I’m sure he’s not alone in this.
apps, productivity, writing
I’ll admit I’m a bit perturbed by the disappearance of all of the decent web search APIs (Yahoo, Google, Live.net, Bing went paid…). Google Ajax Search is still active, I think, but I don’t like working with it from the desktop. So I’m back to scraping, though this is some pretty light scraping.
markdownservices, scripting, service
I had the pleasure of hosting Merlin Mann1 for episode #6 of Systematic. Advance warning, it’s longer than an hour. You’ll live though, and it’s my sincerest hope that you have a good time doing it.
podcast, systematic
