Hi everyone!
I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter and spread the word to your friends and colleagues.
This issue includes news of:
an app for getting book recommendations and another app for podcast recommendations
lists of the best note-taking and journal apps
my upcoming webinar (Sept. 30) - How to Write Effective Email and Web Content
stories about remote work, including my blog post, Working from anywhere is here to stay: a resource guide
tips, accessibility, thought-provoking articles, and articles about the future
️ ❤️ Enjoy! (And if you like this issue, please “heart” it - thanks!)
Featured apps
StoryGraph: Reading Tracker (Android & iOS)
Track your reading and get recommendations for what to read next. Answer some questions and get recommendations. I tried it and it worked pretty well for me. I now have two new books I want to read about climate change.
Moonbeam (Android & iOS)
Discover your next favorite podcast by listening to personalized audio feeds of curated highlights.
📲 App lists
The Best Note Taking Apps for iOS
Includes apps for annotating, drawing/sketching, doodling, notes by voice and more.
These Journal Apps Help You Remember Every Moment
Day One is my favorite in this list. I’ve been using it since 2013.
🆕 App & hardware updates
Apple’s AirTags are a dream come true for the absent-minded - Input
The search is over: smart trackers from Apple, Samsung, and Tile compared - The Verge
Apple launches new iPad Pro with M1 processor - The Verge
Zoom Adds Support for iPad Pro’s New Center Stage Feature - MacRumors
Zoom is buying a startup to bring real-time translation to video calls - Engadget
What is Twitter Spaces? - Metricool
Brave Search is a new alternative to Google built on its own index - The Verge, and Brave Search Public Beta Offers Alternative to Google - TidBITS
DuckDuckGO takes on Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection with its own feature - 9to5 Mac
My offerings
How to Write Effective Email and Web Content - Infopeople
My Sept. 30 webinar - sign up now!
My book, Keeping Up with Emerging Technologies: Best Practices for Information Professionals, published in 2017, is still relevant. It focuses on methods and practices rather than specific technologies.
Here’s what reviewers said:
“Because books on technology can quickly become outdated, I elevated this to the top of my reading pile when it arrived. I needn’t have worried; this book about technology has ideas and tips that will be relevant for quite some time.”
– minnemom - full review on Amazon“Staying on top of new technology is difficult, even for the most tech-savvy professionals. Hennig simplifies for the harried librarian the process of finding information on emerging technology, touching on sources in several formats, along with sharing methods and processes for staying abreast in the field… a handy guide to keeping up with emerging technologies for those of us with little time to devote to the endeavor.”
– Deidre Winterhalter - full review on Booklist
🤪 Just for fun
Brickit - Use machine learning to detect what can be built from your pile of legos - Product Hunt
Dress up your device with the best wallpaper apps (iOS) - AppAdvice
10 best background and wallpaper apps for Android - Android Authority
New Emojis in 2021-2022 - Emojipedia
Google gave nearly 1,000 emoji a much-needed makeover - Mashable
☑︎ Tips
Simplify to Amplify - video by Garr Reynolds
Excellent presentation tips!How to attentively read stuff posted online – Snakes and Ladders
Tells how to make any web page print friendly or convert to PDF.How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies - Technology Review
And try this: https://dev.scrb.ai.How to View the Cached Version of a Website - PC Magazine
Always useful.@magmidd: “As a designer who consults with museums on gender inclusive practice, I am often asked about signage and icons. Here are some of my top recs for easy swaps you can make for a more gender inclusive visitor experience.”
How a Burner Identity Protects Your Inbox, Phone, and Credit Cards - Wirecutter
How to Browse Apple Maps Guides by Publisher - iPhoneLife
How to use DuckDuckGo’s email protection app - The Verge
12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Dropbox - Gizmodo
Improve Your Home Wi-Fi with Mesh, Powerline, MoCA, or More Routers - TidBITS
♿ Accessibility
Giving a damn about accessibility - by Sheri Byrne-Haber
At WWDC 2021, Apple Showed Yet Again Accessibility Truly Is For Everyone in Many Marquee Features - Forbes
South Korean blind activists are pushing Samsung and LG to reform - RestOfWorld
I’m a disabled high schooler. I’m pissed they’re ending Zoom classes. - Input
Wheelchairs get the Tesla treatment with self-driving technology - Axios
@CKnightWrites: “Since it’s Disability Pride Month, I’d love to address something I see many issues with out in the wild: Wheelchair etiquette
There are appropriate and inappropriate ways to interact with someone who is in a wheelchair. Knowing them benefits all involved. A non exhaustive 🧵”
🤔 Thought-provoking
Say Goodbye to Cookies - Harvard Business Review
Brooklynites Are Setting Up Their Own WiFi Connections With NYC Mesh - BK Reader
Meet the Activist Archivists Saving the Internet From the Digital Dustbin - Discover Magazine
You don’t have to be vegan to be vegan - JuicyMarbles
Good essay about tribal identities.
Libraries, archives, and museums enable new forms of remote access in response to Covid-19 pandemic - RLUK: Research Libraries UK
Forget gyms and roof decks. Your next apartment building could have a room for TikTok influencers - FastCompany
Shorter work week - It’s been in the news a lot recently.
Spain’s Four-Day Work Week Is a Game Changer (reducing week to 32 hrs while keeping salaries the same) - Reasons to Be Cheerful
Kill the 5-Day Workweek - The Atlantic
Belfast firm on why a four day week is working for them - Belfast Live
Four-day work week trial in Iceland hailed an 'overwhelming success' - LBC
8 Hours a Day, 5 Days a Week Is Not Working for Us - New York Times
Congressman Proposes Four-Day Work Week - Futurism
The four-day work week – has its moment arrived? (podcast episode) - The Conversation
😷 Pandemic
A spritz instead of a jab? Future COVID-19 vaccines may go up your nose. - National Geographic
Plant-Based Diets Linked to Lower Risk of Severe COVID-19 in New Study - Forks Over Knives
Library of Congress Acquires Audio Diaries from Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 - Library of Congress
What will history say about Covid? Museums scurry to collect — and prepare to remember. - Knowable Magazine
Face mask can help diagnose COVID-19 (wearable biosensors) - Harvard Gazette
New test detects COVID-19 variants in your spit - Harvard Gazette
The Rise of Virtual-Only K–12 Schools - EdTech Magazine
The Colleges That Prospered During the Pandemic - Chronicle of Higher Ed
The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless - Pluralistic
How will the pandemic end? The science of past outbreaks offers clues. - National Geographic, and How the Pandemic Now Ends - The Atlantic (both of these are worth reading)
The potential stickiness of pandemic-induced behavior changes in the United States - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A Texas School Made Masks Part Of Its Dress Code To Get Around Gov. Abbott’s Ban - NPR
Who can ask about your vaccine status? Here’s what you need to know about HIPAA - PBS News Hour
💻 Remote work
I saved so many stories about remote work, that I decided to write a blog post about it.
Working from anywhere is here to stay: a resource guide
Here is one of the best articles from that list:
The Case for Letting People Work From Home Forever
🤖 The future
The top trends in tech - McKinsey Digital
The role of the arts and humanities in thinking about artificial intelligence (AI) - Ada Lovelace Institute
Designing Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future - HAI Stanford
This new AI tool from Google could change the way we search online - Popular Science