10MAY2026: I shipped my app!
Capture is here, powering a house with bananas, a new eInk writing pad, health tech, and obsessing over a flash...
Happy Sunday and Happy Mother's Day to everyone celebrating!
This week I've been learning how many bananas' radiation would be needed to power a house, reading through Victoria Song's top fitness tracker recommendations, listening to this amazing Trinidadian jam session at NPR's Tiny Desk, and shipping my first public macOS app into the wild (more on that below).
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The beloved to-do list app, Stuff, has finally released for Mac! Built from the ground up for speed, focus, and organization. Instantly capture tasks with Quick Toss (⌃Space), stay in the flow with keyboard shortcuts, and manage your day across multiple windows. With seamless sync with its delightful iOS and iPadOS apps, task dependencies, and powerful local-AI powered features like Listen and Scan, Stuff helps keep your life clean and organized so you can focus on getting stuff done.
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On to the good stuff!
🗒 Capture for macOS — Full disclosure: Capture is made by me. I've been a big fan of Obsidian for a while… but while Obsidian is great at holding information, it's not the smoothest at capturing information quickly. So I made Capture, and early users seem to really like it! Capture is designed to help you quickly capture a thought/link/evil plan to your Obsidian inbox and then let you get back to work. With the press of ⌥C from anywhere on your Mac, it will pop up a small stylish window where you can type out your note, tag it (if you want), and then hit ⏎ Enter to either save it as a new note in your Obsidian vault or append it to an existing note like a Daily Journal. While it works great with Obsidian, it will really work with any collection of folders and Markdown text notes on your machine. It's been an absolute blast working on this project, and I've got a fun roadmap of plans to make it even better. Please go do the free trial if you're at all interested; Hiro Report readers can get 25% off the one-time purchase with code HIROFRIENDS.
🖊️ Remarkable Paper Pure - I've been eyeing these eInk slates from reMarkable for a while, and now they're out with a new entry-level model with a higher-contrast display, better chipset, reduced latency, and a replaceable battery that's good for about ~3 weeks of use. I've got a pretty good computer-first note-taking system going right now (see above), but I'm sorely tempted to get one of these just for doodling and for jotting down notes on the go.
🖥️ Hovercraft for macOS - Adam Lisagor — the Sandwich Video guy who basically defined the modern startup-explainer film — just released a really clever macOS app that lets you level up your screenshares by letting you share your presentation on top of your existing video feed… Nothing too revolutionary there, except Hovercraft gives you the unique ability of using pinch and drag gestures with your hands to adjust the size of whatever you're presenting and move it around on the screen. It looks like a ton of fun; I think I may try it out the next time I need to teach a class online.
📸 Godox iT32 Camera Flash - I first shared about this flash when it was released last year, but I finally got my hands on one and wanted to share it again— it's totally blown me away. The iT32 is a modular flash, meaning you can buy the flash once and then swap out the hotshoe part of it to use with all your different camera systems, which all have their own unique flash triggers and TTL requirements. Best of all, the hotshoes that magnetically slot on to the bottom of the flash can also be used as wireless triggers— meaning you can pop the flash off the camera and set it on a tripod off to the side or behind your subject to get some dramatic or artistic lighting effects that are impossible to achieve with on-camera flash. The whole thing is tiny, powerful, and about half the price of other flashes I've bought in the past. I'm thinking about picking up a few more— the hotshoe can work as a wireless trigger for several of the flash units at once.
⌚ Grow: Health & Fitness App - App Store - Grow is a free Apple Watch companion app for tracking your key health metrics in a fun, lighthearted way. It's got a playful design with a customizable cheery mascot that gives you ongoing feedback on your key health metrics throughout the day. The core feature is a "Perfect Day" habit system that tracks steps, sleep, HRV stress, workouts, hydration, and sunlight exposure, awarding a Golden Sun when you hit your daily goals — optionally strict or intentionally gentle, with a nice "it's okay to skip a day" philosophy baked in. I don't think this will replace Bevel, my favorite iOS/watchOS health analytics platform, but it's a fun supplement to it.
That's it for this week! May your wifi gain one extra bar upon reading this email.
My thanks again to Stuff for sponsoring this week's issue and for giving all Hiro Report readers a free year with code HIRO!