02MAR2025: Making Web Shooter Hands
A digital/analog notebook, external memory, bookmark tech, crafting tools, and more!
Happy Sunday everyone!
This week, I’ve been reading about finding wild clay in nature, drooling over these gorgeous retro Apple-themed Airpods Pro, clicking around the brilliant landing page for Josh’s Whimsical Animations course (thanks to ANHVN), making web shooter hands while watching the fantastic new Spider-Man series from the X-Men '97 team, and ogling the stunning (albeit somewhat idiosyncratic) Sigma BF camera.
On to the good stuff!
- 📓 Rocketbook* - The Rocketbook is a really interesting reusable analog/digital notebook concept that features special paper that can be easily erased with a damp cloth, and pairs with an iOS/Android app for scanning the pages and digitizing your notes in the cloud storage solution of your choosing. At about 1/20th the price of a ReMarkable Paper Pro*, this looks like a great way to dip your toe in to Analog/Digital notetaking to see if it would work for you. *Affiliate-links to support my coffee and tech addiction.
- 🧠 MyMind for Web/iOS - I’ve been trying out MyMind this week, which aims to serve as your external memory— letting you save websites, photos, videos, quotations and more in one central place. There are lots of similar offerings out there, but this one is unique in that it leverages AI to automatically generate tags and categories for you so everything is organized in neat, easily searchable ways. On top of all the AI magic is a really delightful, pretty UI. Too soon to say if it’s going to stick for me or not, but I’m really enjoying it and like the concept.
- 📚 Mark - Smart Bookmark - Do we need AI crammed into absolutely everything? I think not. HOWEVER, this gorgeous little AI-powered book mark looks like a lot of fun. In short, it can keep track of your reading, summarize what you’ve read, let you share with others your progress in books, and more. It may be a little gimmicky, and is not actually for sale yet, but I definitely signed up for the waitlist.
- ✂️ Cricut Explore 4 - We’ve been happy owners of a Cricut Explore 3 for years, using it for things like cutting fabric for my wife’s quilting to cutting card stock for fun 3d paper projects I build with the kids. Cricut just came out with the 4th generation of the Explore and Maker models that not only bring down the price for both but also increase the cutting speed and precision for most materials. If you’re at all in to crafting type stuff, it’s worth checking them out.
- 💾 Hyperspace - This handy little utility by John Siracusa just came out this week and lets you quickly reclaim space on your Mac by searching for files with identical content and then does some technical Mac wizardry to condense them down to the storage space of just one copy, all without deleting any of the files. Thanks to Lou’s excellent AppAddict for flagging this.
That’s it for this week! Take great care and be totally awesome to a stranger if you can.