This is the first in a series of posts that will document the evolution of apps that I use on a regular basis and have found their place on my home screen.
Here are the apps:
- Phone: Gotta make calls sometime.
- Strides: Great app for tracking goals, personal milestones or to form habbits.
- Yahoo Weather: I use Yahoo Weather because it looks good, and more importantly gives me the precipitation amount which is important when living in the great white north and having to deal with how much snow you'll wake up to the next morning.
- Fantastical: Best calendar app on iOS. Full stop.
- Spotify: Recent addition to my home screen. I've tried Rdio, Slacker, Spotify, Beats and a few others but Spotify is the one I prefer. I am still on the fence about a paid subscription service vs. purchasing your own music.
- Picturelife: My cloud photo library, for now. With iOS8 looming, Picturelife may not be long for my home screen.
- Plex: If you have a lot of video that isn't through iTunes, Plex is the best damn media player / library available.
- Overcast: Newly added as of 16 July, 2014. Marco Arment's most excellent podcast app.
- Scotiabank: Man's gotta bank?
- YNAB: You Need a Budget has supplanted Mint as my go to budgeting and financial management software.
- Slack: Team-based chat/collaboration for my work teams.
- Tweetbot: My preferred Twitter client of choice.
- Basecamp: The pioneer of the online project management and collaboration tool. Used extensively within my work teams.
- Instapaper: Original read it later client. Still the best one out there (although Pocket had once occupied this space on my home screen).
- Pushpin: Best iOS Pinboard client you can get.
- Unread: My fav iOS RSS reader. Where I get my daily fix of what's going on with the sites I follow. I was a long time Reeder user until Jared Sinclair released Unread. It has by far surpassed my expectations and fits perfectly with the way I read my feeds.
- Launch Center Pro: Great automation tool for getting things done quickly. I don't use it as much as I should and there's a good possibility of it disappearing from my home screen soon. Time shall tell.
- Drafts: Like a reliable swiss army knife for dealing with notes and text. Drafts can pretty much do anything.
- 1Password: I couldn't live without 1Password (on either my iPhone, iPad or Mac). By far the app that gets the most use. If you aren't using 1Password to manage your sensitive data, you're nuts.
- System: I wish I didn't have to put this on the home screen but the fact of the matter is that I am always finding myself in the System preferences.
So there you have it.