iOS-a-Sketch?

The current process to “undo” on an iPhone is awkward enough. You’ll look like an impatient loon getting frustrated with a phone call when you want to undo whatever the last action was.

It’s even more maddening on the iPad.

Mistakenly delete something? Welp, grab your grippy-gloves, readjust your grip, and shake it like an electronic Etch-A-Sketch, because you’ll not be getting it back unless you begin flailing the rather expensive iPad around.

And you can forget it if you are unlucky enough to no longer have the dexterity to coordinate the rhythmic shake-shake-shake to bring it back.

Or resign yourself to redoing whatever thing it was.

Shake to undo was useful for awhile. But doesn’t seem so anymore.

Please, Apple, can we please make “undo” something a bit more accessible?

Gut the Notifications

I’ve been saying and insisting for a few years that notifications of all kinds are interruptions.

Turn them off.

You do not need to send out a notification that an automatic process as run automatically.

Turn them off!

You never need to tell someone that an automatic thing has occurred “just in case” they would find it helpful.

Stop interrupting!

Or people will implement their own automation to simply suppress the constant, incessant interruptions.

Touch to send…

An assortment of parts that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a key.

bnRv0VqMSn2o02EV0eJWXQBefore.

Not nearly as complex as the two transceivers and oscilloscope that I’ve recently assembled.

GGQC93bESbC5NkRO4iLeYgAfter.

I suppose with the dexterity issue I currently have, it replicates closely enough an iambic paddle. I’d like a real paddle — but I have absolutely no interest in dropping the going rate for one.

I should also see about locating some hundred-plus year old tech and some robust wire to hook up keys. Hmm… or maybe there’s even a simplistic wireless tool that I can use to bridge the gap between devices. Yep, there’s something of a conflict in pondering the use of modern Bluetooth technology to interconnect tools, to then send nearly 200-year old signal (Morse Code) over a 125-year old (Radio) medium.

I am a bit of an anachronism.

Assumptions

Don’t assume that somebody else possesses the same knowledge that you do. And never become frustrated when you feel that you’re either talking beyond them, or well-beneath them.

Another person’s knowledge and experience differs.

You will need to find a way to communicate your ideas at a level that they can understand.

This means you’ll need to reduce the concepts significantly…

…or expand your own knowledge to communicate at a differing level than you’re accustomed to.

Also, common sense isn’t.