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On This Day Rewind shows you the photos you took on this exact day in past years. I built it because I love that little joy of reflection of "oh, that's right, we were there." I'm using it every morning. Version 1.3 took a while, but it's a good one. It's mostly about three big things: the app finally supports time zones — from just displaying them to (much more complicated) fixing time-zone…
Update (10th June 2026): I've since added a Flexoki theme in dark and light. You'll find it at the end of the list. Every other year I get the urge to change the look of Drafts for me a bit. My Catppuccin themes , especially Catppuccin Mocha , were probably the most loved ones for me until now. But once again I wanted a few more options to add into my own mix. In the past I played around with…
I missed the April update because a lot was going on. So here's a combined catch-up for April and May (so far) — and honestly, this one is all about the app. On This Day Rewind - Launched! The biggest thing that happened in these two months: I finally launched On This Day Rewind on the App Store in early April! After months of development, TestFlight testing, and a couple of App Review…
Today I'm launching my first app On This Day Rewind on the App Store. It shows you the photos and videos taken on today's date in past years. Apple Photos does have its own On This Day and Memories features — I use those too. What I wanted was something more intentional: an app where looking back at this specific day is the whole point. The home screen widget gives you a daily memory at a glance.…
Another month passed by and here is my updated /now page. On This Day Rewind App Development I invested a lot of time into finalizing the 1.0 release of my first app. And I'm happy to say that I submitted it to App Review last week. I was hoping to get it out within March, but of course there were some (minor) issues to fix - mainly missing URLs to privacy policy and terms of use - but as of today…
I just published a new Drafts action to compare different versions of the same draft using a git-style diff. It lets you review changes in chunks (e.g. paragraphs or sections) and choose to keep or revert them between versions. Download it from the directory: Draft Version Diff Since I started writing more here, I've wanted a better way to see differences between iterations--especially changes…
I've been writing Drafts actions for years, and in at least 90% of them I just use a scripting step to achieve what I want. While it kind of became second nature to me to write those scripts, I have a bit of a mess in maintaining them. Some are just stored in notes, and I run them with an eval() function in the action itself. Others completely live within the action's script step. And I also tend…
Now that my /now page is also included on nownownow.com , I will try to keep it updated on a regular basis. Not sure if I’ll keep doing this monthly or on a reduced schedule in the future. On This Day App Development Working on my On This Day app (still in TestFlight) is a lot of fun. I enjoy using the app myself a lot and got some great feedback from testers who also included the app in their…
About a year ago I decided to run an experiment: I stopped wearing my Apple Watch for the majority of the day. Most importantly, it bothered me that it was so distracting for our ~6-month-old boy. He always tried to touch it and play around with it. Not to mention that the Series 4 is a bit outdated nowadays, the battery was not making it through a day anymore and I was not willing to spend a…
Last weekend, the registration for the youth camps that I'm involved in was launched. Similar to the last few years, we are blessed with many kids who want to be there, and we are booked out just a few minutes after the launch. I'm genuinely happy about that. We're using the open source system pretix to manage the attendees for the different events. Without that system, we couldn't keep up with…