Tag: ifttt

  • ★ Manilla Closing – or Let Me Pay For Your Service

    [Manilla is closing down as of July 1](https://www.manilla.com/announcement/). It was a good service, but I’m not entirely surprised. I tried it for a while before switching to [FileThis](https://filethis.com/). I think FileThis is better for two reasons. One is because it let me automagically download everything to Dropbox. While Dropbox could (theoretically) go away at any […]

  • ★ IFTTT iOS Photo recipes will upload ALL your photos

    IFTTT on iOS used 7.5GB of cellular data – iphone usage | Ask MetaFilter: An IFTTT user found that the IFTTT app used 7.5Gb of data… despite only having two recipes (a weather one and a photo screenshot one). When he inquired of them as there wasn’t any corresponding huge chunks of data he could […]

  • ★ Quick Tracking for Quantified Self

    This one is nerdy, even for me. Consider yourself warned. I wanted to start tracking some data points. I was using FitBit for step and weight tracking, MyFitnessPal to track calories, and mood and environment using Reporter. But there were other things. What time does my daughter’s bus arrive in the morning? How often did I […]

  • ★ Starting with The Secret Weapon and Evernote

    I decided it was time to go all-in with Evernote. I’ve been toying around with it here and there and trying to figure out how it would fit into my workflow. I had been using Remember The Milk, and while it worked, it never felt quite right. I had read about The Secret Weapon, a […]