GoKawiilHi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 134, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re okay in all this heat, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
I also have for you a smart speaker worth a look, a great new remake of a great old game, a couple of excellent video essays, and a Netflix hit to binge on your vacation.
Oh, and two more things. One, we’re off next week for the holiday weekend. And two, I have a question: What’s your reading setup? I mean reading in the broadest sense: books, long articles, newsletters, weird zines your kids make, anything and everything. I want to know the apps you swear by, the decade-old Kindle you won’t let go of, your go-to used bookstore, your favorite brand of highlighter, anything and everything. I have some thoughts on the subject, too. We’ll talk.
(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you reading / watching / listening to / playing / gluing together this week? Tell me everything: [email protected]. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.)
The Drop
Screen share
Three or four times a year, I decide to try and make my iPad my main computer. This is almost always Christopher Lawley’s fault. He is always making these extremely cool, glamorous videos about how to use your iPad! Tablet life seems so peaceful and sane when Chris does it.
I’ve been a fan of Chris’ work forever, and got excited all over again when I saw that he’s been working on a new tasks / planner app called Parchment. (Not to brag, but I am in the TestFlight.) We’ll dig into the app another time, but I figured this was a good moment to ask Chris to share his iPad setup as it stands right now. Maybe I’ll go full iPad again.
Here it is, plus some info on the apps he uses and why:
The device: 13-inch, 2TB M5 iPad Pro. I like working from the iPad because it is a more focused environment. I have ADHD and I can easily distract myself. A lot of people complain about the iPad because it is constrained compared to the Mac; I find that to be its biggest benefit. When I need to focus on some script writing, podcast prep, photo or video editing, or even administrative tasks the iPad is the device I grab.
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