My Favorite Under-the-Radar iOS 16 Features
The new Lock Screen and battery indicator might get all the press, but there are better reasons to upgrade.
Review
Spring Into the Best Twitter Client You’ve Never Heard Of
How does the Spring Twitter client by Junyu Kuang stack up to Tweetbot and Twitterrific? It’s pretty, pretty, pretty good. Here’s why:
Is Revue Too Good to be True? — Revue Review
Revue is a newsletter tool that is deeply integrated with Twitter, but is it the right email marketing tool for freelancers?
Should You Go With The Flow? — Flodesk Review
Beautiful email marketing, automation, and workflows for a fraction of the cost? Is Flodesk too good to be true?
Should You Give It The Gusto? — Gusto Review
Getting paid as a freelancer is great, but paying yourself is even better. Is Gusto the right choice to make that happen?
Should Freelancers Catch a Wave? — Wave Review
Does Wave make accounting easier to understand for freelancers? And is it really that cheap? Let’s find out!
Can Bonsai trim time for freelancers?
Does the host of freelance-focused features make Bonsai the ideal tool for writers to shape their business? Let’s find out!
Got a Notion for freelancing?
Does the endlessly customizable Notion make freelancing easier, or is the tool’s neverending optimization a turn-off? Let’s find out!
I Switched From 1Password to Keychain — Here’s Why
Not only have I switched from 1Password to Keychain, but I’m not looking back. Here’s how Keychain makes the life of an Apple user easier.
The Life-Changing Power of GTD For Freelance Writers
Getting Things Done, or GTD, is a staple of productivity. The concept, coined by David Allen in a book by the same name, focuses on breaking projects into individual tasks. All your attention is focused on the task at hand rather than the whole project. This increases productivity by accomplishing smaller parts of the whole….
Don’t Sleep on the New M1 Mac Mini
Since moving to a full-time work-from-home environment back in March, I’ve upgraded almost everything about my home office. Sit-stand desk: check. Ergonomic chair: check. Calming paint color: check. Computer: nope. Everything I do — from a full-time 9–5 job, managing The Writing Cooperative, and my freelance writing — is on an almost six-year-old 13” MacBook Pro. Don’t get me…
Tweetbot vs. Twitterriffic
Battle of Twitter’s Third-Party Apps Last week, Twitter announced the end of supporting Twitter for Mac. In response, Twitterriffic, a popular third-party application, immediately reduced the price of their Mac app to $7.99. Owning both Twitterriffic and Tweetbot, their main competitor for iOS, I decided to spend the weekend comparing both apps to determine which…