023: McCafé Mail!

If there are two things that Apple users like to obsess about, they would be email apps and iOS Homescreen layouts. This time, we address both of topics! Andrew reveals his wildly unpredictable Homescreen layout, Martin gets a bit cranky at widgets and Jason goes fluoro-green. Scroll down to view the linked screens as they’re discussed and don’t forget to show us yours!

Americans Like to Mix Stuff 00:00:00

• Vanilla Coke 🥤
• Scon vs. Scone
• Constitutional Monarchy 👑

Follow Up: Stickers 00:01:41

• Hemispheric Views Sticker Shop!
• Don’t worry, Alex will be getting a sticker! 🎸
• Signal 🔐
• “Whacking It On X” = “Placing Sticker Upon X”

Sticker Giveaway 00:04:03

• Thanks to everyone who listens and enjoy those stickers!
• Don’t forget to send pictures of where you put them!

Hey and Other Email 00:04:34

• Hey World
• Hey Email 📧
• Andrew’s blog post about Replicating Hey With Fastmail
• Mailing Lists
• No, you heard that correctly, they call the inbox an “Imbox”. With an ‘m’. Yep.
• McCafé ☕️

iOS Email Apps 00:08:29

• Preside
• Fastmail App
• The Fastmail web app is quite nice! 👍

Conversation Views 00:10:02

• Outlook is all about conversations.

How to Fix Email 00:11:29

• RSS 🗞
• Slack
• Big Mail looks really neat.
• Machine learning all the things! 🤖

Homescreens Introduction 00:14:26

• Let the Homescreens begin!
• Hemispheric Views Discord Chat
• Hemispheric Views on Micro.blog
• Hemispheric Views on Twitter

Andrew's Homescreen 00:14:52

(Total apps on phone: 169)

Photo of Andrew’s Homescreen

• Jony Ive
• Drafts
• Double back-tap iOS Feature
• Carrot Weather 🌞
• Never forget, Perth is perthect. 😎
• 31°C is 87.8°F.
• Fantastical 📅
• Pocket Casts 🎧
• Andrew is all about ML!
• Transperth 🚌
• Transperth Bus Footage is a YouTube channel?
• OS X Dashboard
• You Need A Budget (YNAB) 💸
• COVID-19 🦠
• Western Australia COVID Contact Tracing App (SafeWA)
• Foursquare (Swarm is what Foursquare used to be.)
• Big Brother is watching… 🕵️

Martin's Homescreen 00:23:32

(Total apps on phone: 76)

Photo of Martin’s Homescreen

• Martin is anti-widget.
• The Clock ⏰
• uTalk 💬
• Duolingo
• Deutsche Welle 🇩🇪
• Inkl 📰
• iOS App Library
• Martin’s wallpaper collection (called Aqueux, by Hector Simpson)

Watch Tangent 00:33:35

• watchOS App Layout ⌚️
• Martin’s epic ‘X’ app-bubble layout

Jason's Homescreen 00:35:22

(Total apps on phone: 218)

Photo of Jason’s Homescreen

• Stock apps as in default, not STONKS!
• Craft 😍
• Data portability 🧳
• Notion
• Timeular ⏱
• Timeular cube thing
• Deliveries 📦
• Discord
• Parcel

Share Your Screen 00:49:10

• Send us your screenshots!
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• ⭐️ Micro.blog
• 🐦 Twitter

Credits

This episode was edited by Andrew using Ferrite.

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