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title: App List
date: 2024-01-17
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This is most of the apps I use on my smartphone in January 2024,
and some thoughts on how difficult it will be to give it up.

| App | Purpose | Need |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1Password | I'll have to rely on the browser version
| A Better Route Planner | The new phone has some version of Google Maps,
  and longer trips can be planned on the computer beforehand
| Amtrak| | this one could be tough. Having the Amtrak app is very helpful
  on train voyages when problems happen.
| Andronome | A metronome app. I bet I can make a web app on woozle.org to do this.
| AntennaPod | Podcasts. I think there's a podcast app for KaiOS.
| Authenticator | There's a TOTP app for KaiOS. I may need to update it.
| Awful | I'll use the web version.
| Book Reader | I wasn't reading books on the phone. What's funny is that
  I read Moby Dick on my Nokia 5310. But the smartphone is too distracting to read.
| Calculator | KaiOS has a calculator.
| ChargePoint | EV charger app. I may have to either pay more and use my credit card,
  or get their plastic card for in-network rates.
| ConnectBot | ssh client. There's one on my laptop.
| Contacts | There's one built into KaiOS.
| Electrify America | same story as ChargePoint.
| EVGo | same story.
| Firefox | KaiOS has a browser. I bet it's awful. But I don't think I'll use it much.
| Fitbit | Gonna have to give this one up.
| Gmail | I'm already off gmail.
| *Google Calendar| | This may be the thing that pulls me back.
  Getting push reminders of upcoming events has been a big deal.
| Google Home | I think I actually need to keep the phone just for this app.
| Google Messages | It'll be SMS only for me.
| Google News | good riddance.
| Google Photos | web version.
| Google Podcasts | they're killing this anyway.
| Google Pay | credit cards have tap to pay.
| Listen Audiobook Player | I'll have to see if I can find a KaiOS app for this.
| Mattermost | No more work push notifications for me, so sad.
| Open Camera | The camera is not as big a part of my life now as it once was.
  I can get snapshots with the dumbphone. Not good ones, but good enough.
  I grew up with crummy 110 cameras. It'll be okay.
| Plex | maybe I can copy video files over, for the train trips.
  Will I want to watch movies on a 2-inch screen, though?
  Good thing I have a laptop!
| PlexAmp | I will have to copy music files over to my phone, like I did 20 years ago.
  It'll be okay.
| Proton Mail | laptop ahoy!
| *Signal| | Ironically, Signal is the one app that absolutely cannot run without a smartphone.
  And it's where most of my friends are.
| gStrings | (instrument tuner) I may have to buy a guitar tuner!
| YouTube | comes with the phone, although, again, 2-inch screen.
| YouTube Music | same story as PlexAmp. Music files on phone.
| Work Apps | I'll just use my work laptop for work. It'll be fine,
  the main inconvenience will be when I forget to do my timecard,
  I'll have to grab the laptop.
| Banking Apps | they all have web sites I can use,
  although one of my credit cards leans fairly heavily into the app.