August 12th, 2007
I ♥ (some) Web Apps
A couple of words before I begin: some of the applications mentioned below changed the format of this weblog a little bit (details). So I thought I’d share what other applications I use every day. I suppose some of them may be of value to you too.
My favorite web apps (in no particular order).
Remember The Milk - this is the best planning app I have ever used. It has an API (eg. you can send tasks to it via Twitter), you can do almost everything using keyboard shortcuts, set reminders, prioritize tasks, make smart lists, tag your tasks. I don’t really use any other normal calendar app for time management (well, sometimes I input stuff into Google Calendar; my classes, for example, because I need an ordinary calendar view for this).
Twitter - The first time I’ve heard about it, I thought it’s a stupid idea. But I started to like it (partly because Dave Winer so enthusiastic about it). It’s pretty neat to be able to know what people you admire or your friends are doing/thinking at the moment.
Tumblr - I fell in love with this one just yesterday. Like with Twitter, my first impression was a yawn - it looked like just another blogging service. But it isn’t. What makes the difference is the bookmarklet that you use to post stuff to your tumblelog. You can post a quote, a conversation, a photo, a video, or an ordinary blog post. You can also suck in items from RSS feeds. For example, I directed my tumblelog to my allconsuming, del.icio.us, flickr (photos tagged with ‘mobile’), and 43thing.com. I really wanted something like this, a kind of lifebox.
Flickr - the best way to share your photos on the web (because of their RSS, API and user interface).
Del.icio.us- probably the simplest bookmarking site. And because of that, I’m a loyal user.