![]() Videos are recorded with the front-facing camera, and CARROT Weather lends a hand by providing an overlay to help frame yourself. Whether you’re flexing from the beach on vacation or just want to complain about how hot it is to your friends, Weather Reports are a ton of fun. The other headline feature of CARROT Weather’s update is Weather Reports, which lets you create 30-second weather report videos and share them. Smart Layouts require a Premium Club subscription to CARROT Weather. The process is fun and adds an extra touch of personalization and variety that I enjoy. I also enjoy Smart Layouts because they’re another outlet for trying new layout templates and experimenting with setup options. The changes I made were relatively minor but have made CARROT Weather more relevant as conditions change. When rain is in the forecast, I’ve got a layout that moves a precipitation graph and radar view to the spots just below the current conditions. For example, I created a Smart Layout for nighttime based on the Siren template that emphasizes the current conditions followed by the hourly and daily forecasts. With Smart Layouts, you can adjust your weather layouts for each circumstance. Sofa dispenses with the first step allowing you to answer a broader question: “How do I want to spend my free time?” That a one-stop approach is one of Sofa’s greatest strengths and one that the app leans into hard with the latest excellent update. With single-purpose apps, you need to decide what kind of media you want to consume and then turn to an app to pick something. The advantage Sofa has, is that it makes it just as easy to pick a book as a movie or something else when you’re deciding what media to try next. Plus, trying to track media in something like a task manager gets out of control and messy fast.Īnother option is to turn to an app designed for a specific type of media, and there are many good options available on the App Store. You could use an app like Apple’s Notes or Reminders, but they’re general-purpose apps that don’t address the specific needs related to media consumption. You can save lists of books, movies, videogames, and other media you want to try in lots of ways. Media recommendations come at us all from every angle, whether it’s friends and family or sources like reviews. The app also has a new subscription business model for its pro features. Sofa 3.0, an app that I last reviewed in March, is out with loads of new ways to track, organize, and browse the media lists you create. The trick is to keep the system lightweight and flexible and to be willing to delete most of your links to avoid clutter. I’d never considered that links could benefit from a more structured processing approach like email or tasks, but having just reorganized my approach to email, I realized that they absolutely can. Leaving links locked inside the app where you found them isn’t much use either. As a result, it doesn’t do you much good to treat links without also considering what they represent. They vary widely in importance, the attention required to deal with them, and relevancy. The trouble is that links can represent almost anything from a short video that will take two minutes to watch to an expensive purchase that you will need hours to research. It didn’t take long to realize that thinking about links in the abstract is about as useful as thinking about email messages and tasks. Over the holidays, I sat down to think about links and how I deal with them. ![]() Manage customers, sales, tasks, and projects all in one place. It’s all in Daylite: Escape information overload. The Internet touches every aspect of our lives, which means links permeate every corner of our days, yet links are collected, organized, and processed haphazardly on an ad hoc basis by most of us. Most of all, though, there are the many links we collect ourselves throughout our day. Companies send us links to things we buy online and deals we want to check out. Friends and family send us links to things to read, videos to watch, itineraries for trips, and a lot more. ![]() Links to apps, articles I may want to link on MacStories, images on our CDN, podcast episodes uploaded for publication, and materials from advertisers are just a small sampling of the links I deal with every day.īut links are part of everyone’s lives. Part of my problem is an occupational hazard. If they weren’t digital, I’m sure I’d be tripping over links on my way to the kitchen for breakfast each morning. Links accumulate everywhere: in Messages, mail clients, text files, Discord, Trello, research tools, and elsewhere else imaginable. Editor’s Note: Getting a Handle on Links By Treating Them Like Email is part of the MacStories Starter Pack, a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we’ve created to help you get the most out of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
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