Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks on my LinkDing, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with CleanShot X, the absolute, hands-down best app for Mac screenshots. Get one of my all-time favorite apps here.
LidTap makes your MacBook screen respond to a tap, with no touchscreen and no extra hardware. Free for MacBooks with M2 or later, and M1 Pro or M1 Max MacBook Pro.
Write your book on Mac and iPad with Finis and Virgil, your AI editorial assistant. Organize, revise, decide what stays. 14 days free, then $34.90 / €39.90.
I really like the very minimal editor, and the fact that everything is stored as Markdown you can open in Marked or anywhere. Way less overwhelming than Scrivener, if you don’t need everything Scrivener offers.
Autonomous Lamp is a pre-assembled desktop AI companion. It sees, moves, talks, does real tasks with 100+ skills, and writes new ones you describe.
If I had the money to spend on this, I’m certain I could find space on my desk for it.
A quiet Markdown editor for the Mac. Plain files in a folder you own, with instant answers as you write, search and on-device AI. €3 a month, 14 days free.
I am literally seething with jealousy that this beat me to market. I’ve been planning out my ultimate Markdown editor, and then along comes Coffee. It does everything I could want, including sidecar comments, Git integration, inline Soulver-like conversions, dates, and math, inline Markdown conversion, PDF and EPUB export, the works. I can’t imagine Markdown writers not finding it worth US$4/month.
It can even do DOCX conversion to Markdown almost as well as Marked does (but not better, I don’t think).
Check in with how you feel. Each feeling becomes a little Feelbit in your garden. Free on iPhone, and everything stays on your phone.
I have a really, really bad memory. When things seem grim, I can’t remember them ever not feeling grim. And when things feel happy, you could convince me I’ve always felt happy. This is why I love mood tracking apps. I have no issue with them being cute, like Feelbits here. I generally rely on Exist, which has great cumulative reports and correlations, but I will gladly try a new one now and then.
I do all of my screenshots and screen recordings with CleanShot X. I love it to pieces. You should get it.
Brett is a writer and developer living in Minnesota, USA. You can follow him as ttscoff on GitHub, Mastodon, and elsewhere.
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