🔗 What if you could only use ONE APP on your iPhone? – Shawn Blanc What if you could only use ONE APP on your iPhone? – Shawn Blanc "So this is a completely random but fun experiment… but what app would you pick if you could only pick ONE?" I read this quick post from Shawn a few days back and knew my answer almost instantly – Drafts. I’d certainly miss the camera (but I have a ricoh gr), podcast, and the sat nav in some situations, but with drafts I’d cover the other 80% I use my phone for. I could even manage my tasks there too if I needed. Continuing with the other devices… I’d probably pick ... chrisjwilson.me

@ChrisJWilson "Messages" so I can message my wife... and she can message me.

@vincent I want to say Things, but I'm pretty sure that Vincent's correct. I would have to stick with Messages as well.

@ChrisJWilson I'd pick Safari, because even without any other apps installed, a Web browser on an iPhone could still be used to replicate and access services to write, record things and contact significant others.

@martinfeld @ChrisJWilson I was thinking Messages at first, but now I agree with Martin. Everyone I need to contact has an email address, and we have webmail.

@odd Yeah, a world of pure reliance on Web services wouldn't be ideal, but if pressed, a browser could just do everything. With the right services too (like Micro.blog), openness could be maintained! 🙂

@odd @martinfeld @vincent @KyleEssary A web browser does feel a bit like cheating to me although I suppose it's not. Maybe I'm more interested in an answer which doesn't allow you to have everything :P A web browser would probably be the smartest choice though as you could probably find a web app for every function you needed.

@ChrisJWilson I just switched to Drafts for everything (from Obsidian and Craft). Working on a post now! 😄 Drafts is such an amazing app.

@endonend agree … but for one app .. like @martinfeld… safari … or maybe arc? And have @Agiletortoise extend drafts so I can access it through the browser.

@endonend please ping me when it’s done incase I miss it otherwise. I’m not a microblog completionist and often miss late night posts.

@ChrisJWilson see comment just now .. if you are banning safari as a choice .. drafts … since with only one app I won’t need 1Password .. which gets installed first on any new device … drafts is definitely the most flexible one stop shop

@JohnPhilpin Yay Safari!

@martinfeld @ChrisJWilson I'm with you, Martin. Since I returned to thinking of my phone as a phone I have been much happier overall.

@martinfeld if in the same time zone

@ChrisJWilson will do!

@ChrisJWilson Is phone/text an app or part of the phone? All I really want from my phone is that it phone and text.

@letters Wow, it looks as if feature creep has hit the LightPhone. I had one for a while, liked it very much. I think an alarm was the only non-phone app that it had when I first got it. Happily, I think its technology will keep it from metastasizing into a tiny smartphone.

@ChrisJWilson Safari if that’s not cheating.

If it is, Messages for sure.

@SimonWoods Too many social apps and distractions can be very draining, for sure!