the last great nav app goes evil
I periodically look up navigation apps on my phone mainly for entertainment, because it's funny to read the complaints. I read the gripes people have, and think yep, you should've bought a Garmin, be it 5" Drive 53, 6" DriveSmart 66, 7" DriveSmart 76 or 8" DriveSmart 86.
I'm a staunch Garmin user, but even so, I have a backup nav app on my phone. That app was no longer being shown to me in the Google Play Store. This was weird, because that means my phone is "too old" to run that app, so I go over to a web browser and look up the app.
And whoa, did this app drop a train on everybody that used it.
I recently bought a second Casio AE1000W. I still have the first one but don't know when it was bought. I'm thinking it has to be at least a decade old. I do remember I bought it from a Target store in Tampa Bay Florida. Which one? No idea, but the reason I remember it was from Target is because of a price match thing that got the price down to about 15 bucks. The price of an AE1000W now is of course more, but it's still not crazy-expensive.
My reason for buying a second one is because it's a 2010 model still being made today, I like it, and wanted a backup. Fortunately, Casio is still making the AE1000W exactly the same as they did in '10, easy-press buttons and all, which I very much appreciate.
I was favoring the W735H for a while, but the thickness and weight of it was annoying me. That watch is 51.7mm lug-to-lug, 47.1mm diameter, 16.1mm thick, 50g in weight. After that, I favored the WS1600H, which is 45mm lug-to-lug, 42.1mm diameter, 12.5mm thick, 39g weight. Much nicer, but it too started annoying me because the buttons are annoyingly stiff and I'm not a fan of the menu system. An example of that is that it takes 5 mode button presses just to get to the alarm screen. Dumb.
Then there's the AE1000W, which is functionally identical to the AE1200WH, but without the stiff buttons nor the annoying layout. 48.2mm lug-to-lug, 45mm diameter, 13.8mm thick, 40g weight.
The most annoying thing to the point of being almost infuriating about the AE1200WH is the insert sitting on top of the LCD.
I first said that I might be switching over to using email in the terminal. After that, I talked about Inbox Zero.
After a lot of experimentation, I found a setup that works for me, so I'm going all-in with TUI for my email.
Inbox Zero is a workflow philosophy. You have a bunch of messages sprawled all over the place, everything is a total mess, and the end goal is to bring order to that chaos.
Achieving Inbox Zero isn't about having zero messages in the inbox, but rather about eliminating clutter. Uncluttering eliminates stress, and establishes better control over your life.
I've been using the Inbox Zero philosophy for years, but I had to figure out how to apply it to Mutt. I did find a way.
I've been using email since the late 1990s, and learned early on that the best way to use email is with client software. Browser based email a.k.a. webmail has always sucked. The same can be said for email on the phone. I don't use email there, but if I did, I would use a mail client app.
In the early days, my go-to was Microsoft Outlook Express 6. Later on, I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird and have pretty much stayed with that ever since.
However, there's a problem when using a GUI mail client like Thunderbird, and it's the same problem webmail has.