apps
Posts and wiki pages I’ve made about different apps (both on desktop and mobile) I’ve used.
Wiki
- : 🪴 Readlang: While I’ve dabbled in a range of flashcard apps over the years, I think it’s pretty undeniable that the one …
- : 🪴 note-taking software: There is a huge range of software out there designed for the purpose of note-taking. These vary widely in their feature …
- : 🪴 Obsidian: Obsidian (external link) is a cross-platform note-taking app. It was founded relatively recently – the first …
- : 🪴 Obsidian Dataview plugin: Dataview (external link) is a plugin for Obsidian that enables you to treat your vault of notes as a database, …
- : 🪴 messaging apps: There are an absolute plethora of messaging apps out there – such a huge number that it’s kind of mind-boggling to …
- : 💬 Duolingo: Duolingo is a language-learning website and app. It’s known for its gamified approach to education, as well as its …
- : ✍🏻 novel-writing apps: There are a ton of different apps out there purporting to help writers work through the process of planning, drafting, …
- : 🪴 Scrivener: Scrivener is a novel-writing app (which is also usable for non-novel types of long-form writing) for macOS, iOS and …
- : 🪴 Gingko: Gingko Writer is an app that I’ve used over the years to outline different drafts of my novel. The idea is …
- : 🪴 Novlr: Novlr (external link) is a novel-writing web app. You can use it on your phone just by adding it to your home …
Posts
- : 🖥 Moving My Journal from Notion to Standard Notes: Everyone likes the idea that when you put your data into an app, you’ll be able to get it out again easily. …
- : 🖥 Micro post: Last night I got started setting up NextDNS (external link). I run µBlock Origin pretty religiously on all my …
- : 🖥 Micro post: Ugh, the import-export headache gets me again. Goodlinks (external link) only exports in JSON format, while …
- : 🖥 Micro post: Thanks to the great influence of the Micro.blog community, I’ve now installed and am playing around with …
- : 🖥 My First Few Days With Obsidian: I’ve only barely scratched the surface of what it can be made to do with plug-in extensions, but so far I’m …
- : 😮💨 All Over the Place: Why is it that every time I let my blog go without a post for a few days, and then I think to myself, “Man, I …
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.