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What are some cool niche applications you use and recommend? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast
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Well, basically the title. I love trying out new apps across the whole ecosystem, but searching for them in the App store is not fun, and a bunch of apps I have used I found by accident in some posts or comments on the web.

So, the question is, what apps that are not widely known you use and recommend? Mac, iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS.

From me: WatchOS: TimeGlance that serves as date and time complication.

iOS/WatchOS: Duffy that serves only as a glanceable steps meter, with no fancy additions that many apps there have, and simple clean complications in watch.

iOS: Ermine, mainly serves me as a calendar widget that is better than the built in one, showing dots over the days that have some events and highlighting holidays.

iOS: Wristy, a widget to show my wrist temperature (requires Watch 8)

MacOS: Numi, a somewhat “natural language” calculator.

MacOS: Warp, a rich wrapper on the terminal.

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[–] Confuserated 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve recently fallen pretty hard for Anytype (http://anytype.io). It’s a knowledge store/second brain application like Notion except it is decentralized, end to end encrypted, P2P, and open source. It has a little bit of a learning curve, but now that I’m comfortable with it, I can’t help but keep dumping information into it. Even though it is still “beta” it is really solid, and I feel really comfortable relying on it more and more.

[–] haulyard 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use Obsidian for this, with the added benefit that you can still access your stuff offline. Notion requires a connection last I checked, which put me in a bind a couple times. Obsidian also has a bit of a learning curve.

[–] Confuserated 2 points 1 year ago

Cool! While Anytype also works offline, it looks like Obsidian’s canvas and available plugins make it pretty compelling. Thanks for sharing.