Shortly after my review of the ReMarkable 2 e-ink tablet, ReMarkable started working on a version 3 of their firmware and its release yesterday has changed everything — for the worse.… Read More ReMarkable 2 with firmware version 3 – a review reconsidered
The last app in the Affinity V2 bundle is Affinity Publisher 2. New features in this app include the ability to create books in a simple manner, add footnotes, endnotes and sidenotes to your document, and Auto-flow.… Read More Affinity Publisher 2 Review
The reMarkable 2 tablet is a very thin low-latency tablet that recreates the pen on paper experience. It’s presented as a tablet that helps users focus because it can only be used as an e-reader and note-taking annex drawing tablet, but there’s more to it.
As I am one of those nerds who’s still scribbling on anything from Post-Its to A6 index cards and… Read More The reMarkable review
Note taking apps are everywhere and everybody seems to be using them as a “second brain”. The most powerful apps support Markdown, wikilinks, backlinks and a notes “map” based on links between them. Taio aims at becoming one of those on Apple’s platforms.… Read More Taio is an elegant, CommonMark editor
Ulysses got updated once again — one of the few apps that make a subscription truly worthwhile due to frequent updates and improvements. This update, however, includes a long desired for feature: tables.… Read More Ulysses gets tables and improvements
iA Writer 6 adds a much desired feature for note takers and academic writers alike: wikilinks. In addition, there’s better and more extended metadata functionality, link recognition, a history that you can navigate, hashtag autocomplete and a file picker for easily creating wikilinks and content blocks.… Read More iA Writer review
TextSoap started out as a text “cleaning” app many, many moons ago. The tings you can do with it are still called “cleaning”, but perhaps we should really call this app a text manipulation app. Calling version 9.x a text cleaner is like calling iZotope’s RX9 Advanced an audio repair utility. Both have gone way beyond the functionality of their initial release.… Read More TextSoap 9.1 manipulates text, runs native on M1
The Russian war against Ukraine has led to the death of thousands of civilians and destroyed people’s homes and lives along with a massive amount of infrastructure. Since the start of the war, millions of people have fled Ukraine, mostly to neighbouring European countries. And of course, the Ukrainian economy is suffering too as a lot of businesses have been unable to keep working. … Read More Russia’s “special military operation” is a massacre and a criminal act against humanity. Buying Ukrainian software at the very least softens the economic blow to the country
For its 25th version, Ulysses has a few minor improvements on the Mac, and some new stuff on iPadOS and iOS. If you’re using Ulysses on an iPad or iPhone, you can now choose fonts from third-party font apps such as Creative Cloud or iFont installed on your device. Choosing your own font was possible… Read More Ulysses 25, a text editor refined
It’s almost the end of the year. Because this year has been exceptional in terms of Mac hardware and software, and of audio and video related equipment, I have decided to close off 2021 with a list of the Best of the Best in five categories.… Read More The Best Products of 2021
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