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Cardhop and airmail8/18/2023 This one has taken a while to grow on me. I have always preferred a ‘drawer’ based storage system, rather than tags, and Evernote does it best. It’s expensive too, really way more than it needs to be. Their bizarre changes to their TOS, seeming lack of awareness of the security needs of it’s users, blah blah blah. I walked away from Evernote a year or so ago. At this point, it’s icon is a comfort to me, a calm in a sea of storms. Solid search, nice formatting, cross-platform (including web), decent pricing. Of course, the ability to auto-generate and fill password forms with it’s generator keeps the difficulty up for hackers and let’s me stop trying to repeat the same damn passwords over and over again. I store over 300 passwords and the list only grows. It’s cloud storage (with solid individual encryption) makes it work for me wherever I am, for whatever I need. It hooks into all my different web browsers. Everyone seems to have their favorite, and 1Password is mine. There are several really good Password Managers out there. In any case, your mileage may vary, as I find that everyone has their own process, their own way of getting the job done. I’ll give you a quick summary and perhaps try to explain why they are so valuable to me. Today, I’ll present to you a few apps that I really can’t live without. Of course, it also gives me the chance to ‘review’ lots of apps and evaluate their pros and cons, at least as they relate to me. I may learn something about how I’m doing things in the first place that I can do better. I may find something new that really does work better. Sometimes I find something really cool, only to poke holes in it, often because it doesn’t do things the same way I was used to, which makes it silly to have switched in the first place. Really, it means I probably waste more time than I would have gained had I just stuck with something, but it’s what I do. Switch to something, try it, switch to something else – it’s a non-stop procession of a (generally useless) hunt for the perfect setup. Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted at all really. It’s been awhile since I’ve listed out some of those wonderful apps that I use continuously. Cardhop also features action buttons throughout the app for calling, messaging, videoing, and emailing contacts.App, Computers, Mac, New, Tools, Utilities Search ‘Email Tim’ and Cardhop will only present the email address for Tim Cook and not all the other information in the contact. The natural language parser also lets you easily search contacts and even launch actions. This makes sense since a name looks like a name, an address looks like an address, and a phone number looks different than an email address, but the same single text entry in the built-in Contacts app creates a new contact with the first name ‘Tim Cook 1 Apple Park, Cupertino, CA 95014 80 birthday ’ and no other details.Įasy contact creation is only the start of what Cardhop offers. For example, you can type (or copy and paste) ‘Tim Cook 1 Apple Park, Cupertino, CA 95014 80 birthday ’ and Cardhop will create the new entry with the correct fields populated. Just like Fantastical, Cardhop intelligently parses natural text to create new entries and launch actions. You just don’t notice because something magnitudes better hasn’t existed. Even as a basic database, Apple’s Contacts app can feel clunky and not well considered. I treat it like a database that’s primarily used to populate contact information in Mail, Messages, FaceTime, and Calendar. Personally, I don’t launch Apple’s Contacts app very often. That’s partly because Apple’s Contacts app hasn’t changed in several versions aside from gaining a rich leather address book theme then shedding the leather in favor of its current stark design. Cardhop is a super smart contacts app that makes the built-in Contacts app feel like it was made 20 years ago. Flexibits, the team behind the excellent calendar app Fantastical, is out with a brand new Mac app that turns your messy contacts database into something completely usable and interactive.
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