Ten small iPhone apps · one annoying job each
No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Nothing leaves your phone.
psst — tap the wall
Board feet for people who buy real lumber. Type 5 1/2 the way it is written on the board, and the pile adds itself up.
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Everything your family would need to know if tomorrow went badly: who to call, where the will is, what the pets need. One envelope they can find.
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Councils tell you to keep a diary, then hand you a photocopied sheet. This is that sheet, in your pocket, with the times and the photographs on it.
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Your clinic asked for three days of times and volumes. This keeps them, then prints the form they asked for. Millilitres or ounces.
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Photograph a thing, say what it is, save. When you have been round the house, print the lot: every picture with your words and the date.
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Photograph what you buy and say what you paid. Photograph it again when it sells. The stock book, the margin and the VAT look after themselves.
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The date, the time to the second and the place, burnt into the picture as you take it. Send one, or tick several and send them as one PDF.
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Every ball, pin by pin, or just the final score. Leagues of any number of games, your average, your handicap and which pins you keep leaving.
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Photograph the flat on day one and mark what is already broken. Do it again on the last day. A dated record that is yours, not the agent's.
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Type the two numbers on a big pad, or say them out loud and check what it heard. The week your GP asks for, printed like the practice sheet.
Medical Read about it Coming soonNo sign-up. No welcome tour. No badge on the icon nagging you.
Every one of these does a single annoying job and then gets out of the way. They are free to try with everything working — a handful of real uses, not a crippled demo — and when you want more you can pay once and keep it. Your records live on your phone and back themselves up to your own iCloud, which is yours and not mine. I never see them.