![]() You can save lists of books, movies, videogames, and other media you want to try in lots of ways. Media recommendations come at us all from every angle, whether it’s friends and family or sources like reviews. The app also has a new subscription business model for its pro features. Sofa 3.0, an app that I last reviewed in March, is out with loads of new ways to track, organize, and browse the media lists you create. The trick is to keep the system lightweight and flexible and to be willing to delete most of your links to avoid clutter. I’d never considered that links could benefit from a more structured processing approach like email or tasks, but having just reorganized my approach to email, I realized that they absolutely can. Leaving links locked inside the app where you found them isn’t much use either. As a result, it doesn’t do you much good to treat links without also considering what they represent. ![]() They vary widely in importance, the attention required to deal with them, and relevancy. The trouble is that links can represent almost anything from a short video that will take two minutes to watch to an expensive purchase that you will need hours to research. It didn’t take long to realize that thinking about links in the abstract is about as useful as thinking about email messages and tasks. Over the holidays, I sat down to think about links and how I deal with them. Manage customers, sales, tasks, and projects all in one place. It’s all in Daylite: Escape information overload. The Internet touches every aspect of our lives, which means links permeate every corner of our days, yet links are collected, organized, and processed haphazardly on an ad hoc basis by most of us. Most of all, though, there are the many links we collect ourselves throughout our day. Companies send us links to things we buy online and deals we want to check out. Friends and family send us links to things to read, videos to watch, itineraries for trips, and a lot more. Links to apps, articles I may want to link on MacStories, images on our CDN, podcast episodes uploaded for publication, and materials from advertisers are just a small sampling of the links I deal with every day.īut links are part of everyone’s lives. Part of my problem is an occupational hazard. If they weren’t digital, I’m sure I’d be tripping over links on my way to the kitchen for breakfast each morning. Links accumulate everywhere: in Messages, mail clients, text files, Discord, Trello, research tools, and elsewhere else imaginable. ![]() There is so much to explore among the free options that it makes sense to start there, and it’s easy to scale up as warranted by your desire for chess dominance.Editor’s Note: Getting a Handle on Links By Treating Them Like Email is part of the MacStories Starter Pack, a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we’ve created to help you get the most out of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The top tier opens up ’s full video library of lessons and game analyses. The middle tier allows unlimited access to the site’s chess puzzles, while the lowest tier allows you 25 puzzles per day. Every tier removes all ads, unlocks every bot, and allows for unlimited use of its game analysis tool in which an AI evaluates every move of your games and suggests alternatives. Subscriptions come in three tiers at $5, $7, and $14 per month, or around half those amounts if you pay for a year upfront. Just know that on medium- to small-size phones, you may find it more difficult to scrutinize the board. runs in any web browser, but there are also mobile apps for iOS and Android that successfully recreate the experience. ![]() Once that happens, you’ll generally be matched against players who are within a stone’s throw of your skill level. It will fluctuate wildly over your first several games, then settle into a narrower range. When you start playing, you’ll get assigned a rating that denotes your skill level. You can still play as many games as you like without paying, whether against the computer or actual humans. The one thing that stymies your explorations on the site is a subscription paywall, which pops up in various places more serious players might wander, such as the opening explorer. Those looking for some noncompetitive study can learn through puzzles and tutorials, or watch chess livestreams (yes, this is very much a thing) and even find a mentor. You can play against numerous AI-powered chess bots, each with its own strengths and playing style. You can just play and ignore the site’s other offerings, but for the curious, options abound. Games are available at any speed, with time limits for each move ranging from a brisk one minute per side to a leisurely five days. The website with the most obvious name-delivers on its promise: Everyone from newbies to grandmasters has a place here.
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