That diverges from how the app was intended to be used or for what audiences it was marketed for
I use Signal as my camera and as a note-taking app.
There is a particular camera app that a few of my close friends and I have used for group photos since over a decade ago. It’s proprietary and tracker-infested, but there’s a certain humor and nostalgia to the filters and effects that I’ve never found a good way to replicate without the app. It’s sort of an in-joke that we insist on using it whenever we do get together. So I have it on my secondary device and painstakingly patched the apk so it can run without any unnecessary permissions.
If you turn off cellular and disconnect wifi when using i think you can mitigate that mostly
Well, that’s the thing. I wasn’t going to bow down to that app’s demands or put a band-aid on it, I had to conquer it.
Feel that
I use FB messenger to text Peter Norbeck, the second governor of South Dakota, my to-do list
Similarly, I got it just to transfer money.
I transferred too much or something recently so they banned me tho. Need freedom of money.
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To keep a to-do list in an environment where I can use emojis
But why him
Well, he’s dead, so I doubt I’m bothering him. Plus he worked hard and got a lot done and his profile picture is sort of paternal and approving and I guess that helps me feel better about the list.
I’m certain Peter Norbeck, the former governor of South Dakota, would be proud of you
Thanks. I mean, look at this guy.
He’s got that Big Dad Energy
I have used Telegram, for over 12 years, to send messages and important notes to myself, and to very quickly send files between devices. It supports fast and smart search and pinning, and it acts as an archive for certain dates and events, but with the ability to have file attachments or screenshots on those dates (unlike a normal calendar). Everything else I have tried has some of these features, kind of, but nothing else has all of them and in the way that I need. Plus it’s free and fast and fully cross-platform.
Threema would be better and more private for that, huh? Actually use it for same purposes as you
Interesting, I know that’s paid only, does it have full search indexing and unlimited file storage though 🤔💭
Not sure but definitey look into it, Telegram is a scary thing. You’re paying with them monetizing your shit
Off all things I don’t want to be monetized, they can monetize my uptime-kuma and *arr alarms whatever they are worth.
I just dont have your trust of the Russians. I dont trust any company really but particularly not them. No good can come from anything like that
Again, not much to monetize from that:
At worst they could hack my phone. But then we’d have a different kind of problem.
You use a VPN at least?
I’m not sure if this counts, but I use Readdle Documents, which is a file browser from before the files app on iOS, on my iPad as kind of a siloed collection of files and folders exclusively for work. I can still access those folders from my desktop finder at home through iCloud Drive just like anything else, but accessing all my personal files from the app on iPad (which is what I take to work) is a bit trickier, so it just keeps all my work things organized, focused, and away from my personal life.
FileBrowser is a good a more private version as well. Neat little file manager
I like the security aspect. I typically use my iPad with Readdle documents as a supercharged projector in classes. I display PDFs of the student handouts through HDMI out and mark them up with an Apple Pencil. Does FileBrowser allow for marking up with an Apple Pencil? I don’t see any mention of it on the store page.
Not what you were asking, but delta chat is an app that turns email into chat. Same premise.
I use the f droid store as a launcher almost more than I use my launcher’s native feature when I have to use an app thats not on the home screen. I can’t remember the weird names people give their projects so I just search for what I need and open whatever is already installed.
I use bitwarden password manager to keep notes about websites because it loads in the sidebar according to URL automatically. (More useful on desktop than mobile.)
I fucking love Arcane/Delta Chat I made it my main email client. Murena.io is the best free option with compatibility I have found. There is a rate limit of one email sent per five minutes for it tho. It’s a great way to stack a bunch of aliasing accounts. I use Tutanota to make the emails for the Murena accounts.
One weird trick that will change your life (unironically) is setting custom notification sounds for various email reply chains and other Arcane Chat groups. Cheogram for XMPP can do this even better. I wish they could adopt all of each other’s features. This may sound like it has limited usefulness to anyone who hasn’t played around with feeding bots & RSS feeds into other chat services for portability, convenience, etc, but it can be used to unify all kinds of things. The Mastodon bot is very useful
It’s tucked away in the menu but the backups for Arcane Chat are very easy to use, totally extensive due to the storage-based nature of the protocol, with the disadvantage of not being encrypted, automated, and password-locked
If you have trouble remembering app names precisely, I recommend KISS Launcher. Although it is very search-heavy, it has a terrific tagging system. I’d recommend alphabetizing your tags though as it is slightly quirky. Tagging home screen shortcuts is my crack. So, I guess that’s my answer to OP as well. Nothing like KISS I am aware of. Best way to use Android.
I use audiobookshelf to manage my TTRPG pdfs. It can correlate multiple files under one “Title” which makes organizing ttrpg stuff simple and it’s a nice interface. Plus it’s self host able so I can share it with the other people at my table. I just wish the PDF reader was a little more robust but it mostly does the job.
I also use audiobookshelf in a weird way. I use it to read Manga and comics on my phone/e-reader.
While the folder structure it uses is a bit convoluted, the UI and apps are great.
