Last week, my friend invited me to play the New York Times version of Words With Friends, called Crossplay. Crossplay is vastly better than WWF. I got so annoyed by that obnoxious and cluttered app, always trying to get me to do their other in-app silly things. I just want to play Scrabble! Crossplay is clean, it's just scrabble, it doesn't bother us with anything except letting me know when it's my turn, and the ads are only after every few moves, when I can easily just close the app and ignore it anyway. We're on our second game already and I'm loving it. I'm using the same name there as here at TLP -- michelepixels -- and would love to play more if you want to try it out.
The app I use the most is probably Day One, my journal app. My streak is now 3,494 days. I love journaling.
I also constantly use Reminders. It keeps me doing what I need to do.
I use Paprika, my meal planning, recipe, and grocery list app, every week. It works so well. I got rid of all my cookbooks and three-ring binder, don't print out recipes anymore, and have an easy time planning my meals and getting through the store.
Two other apps I usually open every day are my favorite word game, Word Wow Around The World, and my coloring app, Zen Color. I'm keeping track of the number of pages I've colored in the app since I started using it on Winter Solstice 2023 -- usually 1-4 per day -- and I'm up to 2511 today.
I've never thought I wish I had an app for something. My problem isn't lack of apps, but that some apps don't work well for me. Like I have tried to use Cronometer to track my food nutrients. I'd like to just for a couple of weeks to see how I'm doing. But each time I try, it feels too complicated and tedious so I give up. So I guess if I could design an app it would be a better version of one of the ones I'd like to use but haven't managed to.
What app could I delete right now and not miss? Hm, let me scroll through my 4 pages of apps and see . . . ok, I've never wanted to use the Numbers app or the Sheets app which came already installed on my iPhone, so I'm pretty sure I'd never miss those if I deleted them. I also have a third party weather app called Carrot. It's the snarky one. I used it intermittently for a while a couple years ago, then stopped and forgot about it, so I could delete that one. I haven't used Pic Stitch in many years but it's a really cool app I can use to make collages of photos. I used it for putting more photos per page in my Day One journal a decade ago, when I was planning to print it. That's no longer the case so I don't need Pic Stitch and have forgotten about it except when my eyes land on it while looking for something else. I think everything else is something I use at least once a year or has practical or sentimental value.
