Rahul Chowdhury

I've used many read-it-later apps, but this delightfully minimal app takes the crown for design.

It's currently missing mobile apps, but I hope they will be added soon.

The app's called Shiori, and is available on macOS, Linux and the Web.

Accidentally found this awesome, cross-platform notes app that looks and feels like Bear Notes and works on a similar philosophy as Obsidian.

Notes are stored as MD files, backed up using Git.

The app's called Scratch, and is available for free on macOS, Windows and Linux:

I'm finishing up the last Hulry newsletter issue of this year, and I'm completely psyched about this cover illustration my wife made for the issue:

Safari on iOS has a feature that can be useful at times, especially when researching.

If you've opened many tabs, you can arrange them by website to have a more sequential reading flow.

In the Tabs Overview screen, tap on the three-dot button → Arrange Tabs By → Arrange Tabs By Website:

So, in Slack, you can search messages tagged with an emoji reaction using the syntax:

hasmy::emoji_name:

On the iOS Calendar app, you can pinch to zoom into events in the month or day view:

I've been tweaking Obsidian to act more as a focused, note-taking app, and I ended up creating a custom theme based on my website and newsletter.

Here's how it looks in light and dark modes:

Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into this.

I liked this feature in Spotify and YouTube Music, and now Apple Music has this, too:

You can swipe on the Now Playing bar or on the full-screen layout to change tracks like this:

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This is a fun iOS app to sort some colour palettes and decompress for a few minutes.

I often keep sorting palettes one after the other.

The app's called Color Sort Therapy.

I've not been a fan of Obsidian's UI since the beginning.

But recently, a Hulry Plus member suggested the Notebook Navigator plugin, and it makes the notes list in Obsidian much easier to browse.

Try it out from Obsidian's community plugins section.

If you have a QR code photo on your phone, from a catalogue, or any other downloaded materials, you can long-press the QR code to open various options.

There, you can open the embedded link, copy it, copy the embedded text, etc.

Here's a demo:

If you listen to podcasts on the Apple Podcasts app, you can swipe up or down the speed indicator to quickly tune the playback speed:

While recording a voice note on your iPhone, such as dictating an idea in a new note, you can select Voice Isolation mode to reduce background noise and improve clarity.

Once you've started recording:

1. Swipe down the Control Centre
2. Tap recording Controls
3. Choose Voice Isolation

Safari on iOS 26 doesn't have a button to see all opened tabs in one tap in the compact view.

But you can still quickly navigate to the Tabs overview via two gestures:

1. Swipe up the floating address bar
2. Double-tap the more options button

Apple Music now allows you to pin up to 6 albums or songs for quick access.

However, the default action for pinned items is to open the album and locate the pinned song.

You can set your pinned songs to play on tap like this:

1. Long-press on a pinned song
2. Select Tap Action
3. Choose Play

Here's how you can recreate this Shortcut:

Spotlight on macOS Tahoe now supports input parameters for Shortcuts, and I recreated Raycast's Quick Links feature with it.

I had a quick link in Raycast to search for books on Goodreads. I created a Shortcuts that does the same.

Here's a demo:

Thank you 🙌

One of the most read and loved guides I published on Hulry was last year's Back to Basics guide on Apple Notes.

After this year's new OS releases, I refreshed the 42-minute guide with updated media and additional tips and workflows.

Read the entire piece here → hulry.com/back-to-basics/notes/

When using nested folders in the iOS Notes app, it can be cumbersome to navigate back to the top-level folder.

Here's a tip:

Tap and hold the back button to reveal the hierarchy of folders.

Then, choose a folder from the list to navigate to it or "Folders" to navigate to the top, like this:

One of the lesser-known features in the Finder app is that you can save your frequent searches.

For example, I had tagged some photos from my trip that I want to edit, and I always searched for the tag "Red" to find these photos.

An easier way is to save this search as a Smart Folder, like this:

My wife and I have been working on this nifty feature for the @shakkei.app for a while, and I finally sent the update today morning.

You can now run desktop scenes from the Shakkei macOS app in Day or Night mode.

We made a teaser video showcasing the feature:

Night mode animations are working. Coming soon in the upcoming update.

If you share screenshots from your iPhone often, there's a quick way to do this.

Once you've taken a screenshot, tap and hold the screenshot preview at the bottom-left for a few seconds and release to open the share sheet like this:

Shakkei brings animated wallpapers to your Mac desktop to create the perfect work or play ambience. 💻🖥️👌

Shakkei scenes are about to get more interesting.

Dropping soon.

Designing a Balanced Workday using Japanese Philosophies Modern work schedules are too busy and overwhelming. Here's how I design a more balanced workday using Japanese philosophies.

In all my years of experience creating workday schedules, I've noticed how quickly they can become overwhelming.

Meetings and tasks pile up, and we don't get any room to breathe.

Here are some Japanese philosophies that serve as a stencil to help me design a well-balanced schedule every day:

I'm trying a new trick to see if it reduces my social media doomscrolling:

Automatically turning on greyscale mode and increasing contrast when opening social media apps, and reverting to normal on closing them.

Let's see how it goes.