5 min read
Access tokens: what they are and 5 cases for revoking them
How a token differs from a password, why there are two types, a table of five cases for revoking them and what you'll notice in the app afterwards.
EmailCalendar and tasksPrivacy
Apple and wearables
Apple and wearables: news and guides
iPhone, Apple Watch, widgets and Live Activities: the assistant when your laptop is shut.
20 articles
3 min read
Single or Multiple Calendars: A Practical 3-Tier Setup
A single calendar mixes work and personal life, while ten scatter your day. Learn what to separate and what to unify across your daily schedule.
Calendar and tasksPrivacy
3 min read
How connecting two apps works and what data you share when authorising it
Discover how app authorisation works, what permissions you grant when linking accounts, and how to control the data you share between digital services.
EmailCalendar and tasks
4 min read
Common AI mistakes with dates and times, and how to spot them
Language models often struggle with days of the week and relative dates. Learn about their most common mistakes and how to spot them in good time.
AI assistantsEmail
4 min read
How to request a copy of your data from any app
Learn how to exercise your right of access: where to find the download option, what to ask for by email if there is no button, and what data they must provide.
EmailPrivacy
3 min read
Reviewing the next day before switching off: a ten-minute routine
Organising tomorrow before logging off reduces uncertainty and avoids starting the day firefighting. Here is how to do it in ten minutes.
EmailCalendar and tasks
4 min read
Cross-time-zone meetings: rules to avoid being an hour early or late
Managing cross-border meetings flawlessly means understanding daylight saving transitions and always relying on calendar invites with fixed time zones.
EmailCalendar and tasks
4 min read
Reminders that actually work: when and where to set alerts to stop snoozing
Alerting at the wrong time turns reminders into noise. Practical tips on scheduling alerts where and when you can actually take action.
EmailCalendar and tasks
2 min read
Electricity prices and air quality, in the same glance as the weather
The electricity price right now, the cheapest slot left and your town's air quality and pollen, in the same glance as the weather. Each line can be turned off in Settings.
WeatherPrivacy
2 min read
“Time to leave”: your iPhone tells you when to set off for your next appointment
If your next appointment has an address, your iPhone works out with Apple Maps how long it takes from where you are and tells you when to leave. Your location never reaches our servers.
Calendar and tasksGetting around
2 min read
tokidu in Madrugo: your tasks in the daily plan and the calendar, in one tap
Connect tokidu in one tap, with no codes to copy, and its next tasks appear in your daily plan and, if they have a date, in the calendar. Tapping one takes you to it in tokidu.
Calendar and tasksIntegrations
2 min read
Todoist and Google Tasks in a single list for today
With both connected, what is overdue and what is due today meet in one list with the origin visible. Nothing is copied between managers, and neither is crowned the winner.
EmailCalendar and tasks
2 min read
How to add a calendar by iCal (ICS) link, and what to expect from it
You copy the address the calendar publishes, paste it, and from then on it reads itself. It is the standard way to bring in holidays, school or league fixtures without handing over any password.
Calendar and tasksApple and wearables
3 min read
Apple Reminders on the iPhone and on the web: how to see them off the phone
Apple offers no public server-side API for Reminders. The approach that works is letting the iPhone itself read them and sync them to your account.
Calendar and tasksPrivacy
3 min read
How to see Google Calendar and iCloud together
Two routes actually work: the iPhone app, which reads the phone's own Calendar, and a published iCal link from iCloud. Here is when each one is the right choice.
Calendar and tasksPrivacy
3 min read
How to organise email, calendar and tasks in one place
You do it by connecting the accounts you already use to a single reading surface, not by migrating anything. What changes is where you look, not where your data lives.
EmailCalendar and tasks
2 min read
Integrations that should not exist
Half the integrations in a productivity app exist to compensate for the fact that the app does not read the calendar. The calendar already is the integration.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
Voice commands without misunderstanding
The problem is not that the speech recogniser fails. The problem is that nobody tells you what language it is listening in.
Apple and wearablesProductivity
2 min read
Daily briefing on the Apple Watch
The watch is the only device you look at before reaching for the phone. If the briefing arrives there, it arrives first.
EmailCalendar and tasks
2 min read
The assistant on your wrist: Apple Watch and Live Activities
A 40-millimetre screen has no room for a summary. It has room for one sentence, and that sentence has to be the right one.
AI assistantsCalendar and tasks