Search for a simpler app

Kia Kamgar

We’re inundated with apps and tools. However, most are full of bloat and feature we never need. And because of that, we often stop using them. I wish developers reached out to users before they start building.  Post: https://macjunky.com/post/search-for-a-simpler-app Newsletter: https://macjunky.com/newsletter Contact: https://macjunky.com/contact   #apple #mac #consulting #coaching #training #business #tech #technology #minimalism #simplicity

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00:00So I'm on this website called product hunt where people

00:04founders

00:05hunt

00:06New apps and they kind of promote them to get them up on the on top basically

00:13People up vote them. You can comment on things and I find a lot of apps there which

00:19Are actually really good, but there is a bunch of

00:23Rubbish there as well. So yeah part of my job is to go out and search for

00:30good apps new apps things that are interesting things that are simple things that take friction away and

00:36in

00:37Recent times I've been looking for a really simple

00:42Notetaking app just something simple. I use Apple notes. I use craft for project things. I

00:50have used drafts and there is obviously bearing etc, but I

00:56think drafts is

00:58Starting to get a bit complicated

01:01So I was really looking for something really quite simple now. I've gone in the past couple of days

01:07I've gone through so many apps

01:09Many of them on product hunt some of them. I've just found through tweets and people talking about them

01:17But I just cannot find

01:20anything, that's just

01:23literally a notepad and

01:26I found one that hits the mark really close

01:32but again, they've

01:34Complicated it with certain features that just don't need to be there

01:39They obviously have a use case for it because they've spoken to I'm hoping I'm hoping that they've spoken to their

01:46Users about well, they've done some sort of research as to why they've added these features

01:52But there's so much bloat in these apps and I just it's beyond me why

02:00These founders I

02:02Don't know these app makers make things so so complicated

02:07So I've gone back to using Apple notes and I've created a shortcut to add a simple quick note

02:13that's all I

02:15kind of needed

02:17but I use Apple notes is my

02:20As kind of like my

02:23My archive I have everything in Apple notes. I

02:27Don't want

02:29My notes and and things all over the place. What I wanted was a place

02:34where I can

02:36simply add notes and

02:39Then send it or and then put it into Apple notes as like an archives things that I need to keep

02:46But it's they're so hard to come by because again

02:51software

02:52makers make things

02:55stupidly

02:56complicated and it's insane, so

03:01What's the point of this the point of this is don't make things more complicated than it needs to be

03:08for yourself, so if you have

03:13You know a notes app and and

03:15Task management app and this happened at that app

03:18just see which ones that you can actually get rid of so you don't have that friction between you and

03:24Where you want to place that note if you have an interim place, which is something that I'm looking for. Okay, great

03:31Because then you don't

03:33Mess up

03:34Wolf is going down the stairs again. You don't mess up your workflow

03:39but app makers really do need to

03:42Simplify a lot of these apps that are out there

03:47Anyway something on my mind. I wanted to share with you. What do you think?

03:50Do you think these apps are complicated? Do you have an app that you hope?

03:55Was simpler let me know. Anyway, have a great day and I'll see you in the next one. Ciao

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