2018.01.22.

I’m giving Twitter another shot. I’ve scrolled through my timeline and unfollowed a bunch of accounts that doesn’t interests me anymore. I miss discovering small things that doesn’t reach me via RSS, like new iOS app betas, interesting links etc. But I’m also trying to be more aware when I’m using the service. Here are my rules:

  • Posts, links and statuses will be still posted to Decoding then cross posted to Twitter via Micro.blog. I don’t want to change that since I like to own my content and I can also write longer stuff here than 280 characters. Also there are people who follow this blog via RSS.
  • I’ll reply and interact with people on Twitter as I did before — I don’t care that much about where threads and comments are made anyway.
  • I’m keeping Tweetbot on my iPhone and my iPad, but I’ll avoid using the official Twitter app. I don’t care about polls and ads, the timeline usability of that app is a piece of crap anyway.

So, I hope these rules will make Twitter fun again.

2018.01.06.

The Weekly Review is the hardest to implement from GTD, but it’s the most important routine to get myself familiar with. Here’s why:

  • I have a basic anchor once a week, when I became mindful with my commitments and that gives me a relief so I can trust in my system. Nothing slips.
  • Reviewing my waiting fors then pinging people keeps that loop alive. People start to feel I demand stuff from them and they can’t escape from their responsibilities. At least from those that involve me.
  • Reviewing my stuff feels like mindfulness meditation. I pay attention what’s on my mind, then I make proactive decisions about them. This way I can relax.

Panic has announced the “suspending” of Transmit for iOS:

My optimistic take: we hope that as iOS matures, and more and more pro users begin to seriously consider the iPad as a legitimate part of their daily work routines, Transmit iOS can one day return and triumph like it does on the Mac.

Getting enough revenue from an app that you’ve developed is hard, but as a user of every Panic software on macOS and iOS, I’m angry. I’ve already made my comment regarding this change, so I’m not going to repeat it, just quote:

I know iOS is hard, but why not charge more or add subscription or something? This is not the first time you guys complaining about developing iOS apps, but I’ve never seen any new business model tried from Panic, so can’t really feel sorry yet. Paid up front and thats it. I mean there is Omni Group, they’ve transformed every Omni app to “try for free then pay a reasonable price” model last year. They also delivering reasonable upgrades constantly. On the other hand Coda for iOS still missing a lot of basic features, like Open in Place support and a simple Quick Open. And don’t get me started on the “still in the works, but it’s coming in the next 100 years” version of Coda for Mac or Panic Sync which is still buggy and way more annoying than the old iCloud Sync, which you’ve dumped…

Transmit on the other hand works fine, I use it daily, but sunsetting an app which I rely on that much is just annoying. Coda’s file management isn’t the same. For example there is no share extension which I use a lot, especially with Workflow. So instead of complaining about iOS app business models all the time, you guys should put more effort into developing iOS. I’m a customer, I’m using and loving all of Panic’s products. I would even pay for the Panic Creative Cloud monthly, but apps needs to be kept updated with new APIs and usable features know from the desktop, not treating them like “baby software” as Steve said.

2018.01.05.

I love Workflow and Working Copy together! I’ve just migrated my blog over to Jekyll, and created a workflow which grabs a piece of text like this, creates a file in my git repository with Working Copy, commits it automatically, then pushes the code to the server. All this from Today view or a Share sheet in Ulysses.