So I’m looking for a to-do/productivity app but haven’t found exactly what I’m looking for or how best to do this on the apps I have found. I would like to be able to create a task and give it a due date - “this task must be done by Aug 22” - but also assign it to a specific time block. Like “I will work on this task during my prep period from 12:30-2 on Aug 21.” And then easily move them to the next appropriate time block for work if I don’t get to them. I just started using Todoist and really like it, but I’m struggling figuring out the time block thing. (I do NOT need to track hours or invoices or anything.)
My favorite read-later app Pocket (one of my fave apps of any kind) has totally borked tags in the new iOS update. Suggestions for an alternative that has:
- Saving from iOS and Chrome
- Bulk tagging and multi-tagging
- Filtering by tags
- Article view and web view toggle
I could give so many other examples of disempowerment at Threads, but nothing makes me feel less in control of my experience than my timeline. It’s not really my timeline—it, too, belongs to Emperor Z. It took Facebook many years to figure out how to limit my control over my information feed. In the early days, I connected with family and friends and got access to everything they shared, starting with the most recent post. That’s what users want. But over time, Facebook learned that it was more profitable if corporate HQ controlled my timeline, not me. And they found all sorts of ways to do this. Threads is starting out with the benefit of all that learning. So don’t expect that you will follow somebody on Threads, and get a chronological feed of what they post. Instead you find that:
- The Emperor (and his large Imperial Guard) decide how much timeline control is given to algorithms, instead of you. They won’t tell you how they make this decision, but I think it’s safe to say the algorithm has the upper hand.
- The Empire decides if you see advertisements, and when, and how often.
- The Empire decides if you get to see what a friend is posting.
- And, of course, the Empire decides what is allowed, what is prohibited, what is prioritized, and what is trending.
Confirmed that I have zero interest in Threads.
One of these days I’m going to figure out markdown language. For some reason I can do it on Obsidian but not on micro.blog. 🤷♀️
I might be in the market for a Twitter-beater, but I definitely don’t want my Twitter-beater to be from Meta. So…not joining Threads.