Caret is a cross-platform-compatible markup editor that “stands out with its clean interface, productivity features and obsessive attention to detail.”

Similar to Stoop (featured here a couple of weeks ago), Newslettr is an app that makes reading and managing newsletters easier. You use a dedicated email address to send all your favourite newsletters to one central place, freeing up your inbox. Mobile apps are coming.

Set a simple timer by dragging Gestimer’s icon down on your desktop from the menu bar. The distance you drag it defines the length of time. Neat idea!

“Everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.”

Field Notes →

Autumn Trilogy special edition

Notebook-maker Field Notes continues to impress with special editions that push material and technical boundaries. This three-part autumn edition features subtly debossed leaves behind an embossed logo which are the result of a pretty complicated manufacturing process. 🍁

Monogram →

Modular creative console

For those who do a lot of editing work – including video, audio, photography or illustrations – Monogram can extend your standard input controls through a range of modular shifters, knobs, wheels, and buttons. Monogram integrates directly with a range of popular apps but also offers an SDK to allow custom extensions.

Some interesting thoughts on how our behaviour as individuals can have a ‘burnout’ ripple effect that extends far beyond our immediate relationships: “If you want to actually make life better, more liveable, less of a slog for yourself, that involves making it better for a whole lot of other people as well. For that, you don’t need a self-help book with an asterisk in the title to blunt the profanity. You don’t need a better organizational app. You just need to legitimately and actionably care about other people.”

Another fantastic essay by Craig Mod. This time on the different ‘contracts’ we enter when we consume media and how new media formats suck us into bottomless ‘appholes’: “The printed newspaper of 1919 had edges, ended. There were ads but they were passive, not active members of the reading experience. They were not reading you. You paid. You got some paper. The paper did not continue forever.”

A beautifully written reminder that humans are just a tiny part of a complex ecosystem, yet we think of ourselves as having god-like powers that allow us to treat all other inhabitants as a resource – objects – to be used. “At this curious moment in the world’s unfolding, when human violence toward other humans is matched only by our violence toward the living earth (...) it is now evident that our own species must undergo a sea change if anything of beauty is to survive. If we wish to bring humankind into a new reciprocity with the rest of the biosphere, then we will need to release ourselves from the tyranny of outmoded concepts, and remember ourselves as a part of this breathing planet.”