I’ve very excited that one of my favorite apps, LongScreen, is this week’s sponsor of markdmill.com. 
If you’re anything like me, you frequently take screenshots of articles, tweets, images, SMS conversations, and anything else you want to save or share. The problem is, whatever you’re trying to capture is often longer than a single screenshot. For a long while, I searched for a solution and was never able to find something that was satisfactory–the worst apps were downright spammy and the best apps were designed for making Instagram collages, not displaying screenshots. LongScreen is as good at screenshots as those other apps were bad. In fact, I use it so often and love it so much that it’s now on my homescreen–yes, it is that good. The developer has thought through all the details and gotten them just right. Continue reading
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Recommended App: World Time Widget
This week, I’m recommending World Time Widget, made by Lewis Smith. If you’re like me, you know and interact with people across multiple time zones. Coordinating meetings and calls with different time zones is a pain, especially if the calls are international. Then, just when I feel like I’m used to the time zones, Daylight Savings Time starts/ends and I have to remember which states and which countries shifted, which didn’t, and I have to relearn it all over again. Ick. I realized I was spending valuable mental energy trying to figure this stuff out and why not get an app for that? Rather than an app I have to open up, what if there was an app that put that info in a Today widget so it was always available with one swipe? Enter World Time Widget, a dead-simple app that solved this problem for me. Continue reading
Automating Instagram Posts into DayOne
After MacSparky featured my home screen, I was contacted by several folks who were interested in my Instagram and DayOne workflows. I love DayOne and use it constantly to chronicle my life (read why I recommend it so much). I found, however, that if something was important enough I posted it to Instagram, I would also want to post it to DayOne. Doing that each time takes a lot of repetitive steps, so I looked at methods of automating the task on the Mac. These methods, unfortunately, are rather complex, so I set out to do it myself on iOS. There are three ways below that can help you do this.The best solution by far is the third, but depending on what apps you own or want to buy, you may choose to do it differently. Continue reading
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