⚡ 13JUL2025: A delightful ghost-themed interface

Happy Sunday everyone!

This week, I've been enjoying this epic Tiny Desk Concert with Clipse, giggling my way through the latest season of Taskmaster, devastated that I missed out on this Fossil x Fantastic Four collab watch (Thanks Andrew), and setting a reminder alarm so I can grab this Back to the Future 40th Anniversary Hot Wheels set.

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On to the good stuff!

💡 Aqara FP2 Occupancy Sensor - I picked up one of these to do some experiments with for home automation. We have two young kiddos in the house who have been on a streak lately of getting up in the middle of the night. So I've been wanting to automate a few of our smart lights to turn on at a dim setting to light up their path when they are fumbling around in the dark. This is probably overkill for that solution. The FP2 uses mmWave radar to detect up to 5 people's movement in a space. You can also define zones within a space so that it can trigger distinct automations based off presence in specific parts of a room— i.e. When someone sits on the couch, turn on the lamp. I'm having a lot of fun playing with it and will probably pick up a few more.

📝 Tweek - Weekly Planner for Mac/iOS - Tweek is a really clever, simple weekly to-do list planner app and web service. It integrates nicely with Google Calendar, but you can also use it on its own simply for laying out what all you need to get done for the week and dividing it up into the days you plan to do it. The ability to overlay calendars so that you can actually block off time to do things you need to do is a great bonus. At a minimum, it's worth checking out for the pretty interactive landing page.

🪀 Sweets Kendama for Beginners - On my buddy Matthew's recommendation, I put an order in for one of these kendamas this week. As someone who loves yo-yos and other skill toys you can perform tricks with, I've been curious about these classic Japanese toys for a long time. It's just a ball, a string, a spike, and two cups, but people can do all kinds of fun things with them. It looks both fun and meditative. Eager to give it a try when mine comes in next week.

👻 Ghost Reminders Capture for iOS - I saw a few people mentioning this app over the last week and decided to give it a try. It's a really great concept: with the press of a button, you can just speak and it turns whatever you said into to-do items that get added to your reminders app. It's very simple, but it's got a delightful ghost-themed interface, and I particularly like that the voice transcription is all done on device. It does have a neat feature that will integrate optionally with a ChatGPT account that will provide insights and prioritization of your to-do list if you want some AI help. I'm finding it really satisfying to just quickly brain dump my to-do list and have it all show up in Reminders.

👨🏽‍🍳 CREME Video Recipes App for iOS - This is one of the better looking recipe apps I've seen. It's got a really slick UI and differentiates itself by providing small videos of every step in the recipe process. It also features some nice smart integrations, like the option to add all the ingredients from a recipe to an Instacart shopping list. I'm definitely going to be stealing some ideas from this for family meals over the next week or two.

That's it for this week! May you find a cryptic note on the sidewalk that leads to a small, but meaningful treasure.