Tech: These 2 Apps Help Me Make Sense of My 100K Screenshots
I take a lot of screenshots. Like, an excessive amount. I'm not sure whether to blame my ADHD, my FOMO, or pure sentimentality, but as it stands, I have more than 100,000 screenshots on my iPhone. (For context, a quick informal poll of coworkers revealed numbers closer to 2,000 on most of their phones.) I've got a fever, and the only cure is taking another screenshot.
See something funny? Screenshot. Something gossip-worthy? Screenshot. Conversation I want to remember forever? Screenshot. Swiping on a dating app? You already know. Forget the familiar volume-up-button-power-button combo. I take screenshots so frequently that I set up a double-tap gesture to take them, too.
Ironically, the things I'm screenshotting are usually in an app that already has a native way to save or sort them. I'll screenshot memes from Instagram, for example, rather than saving them to a collection, because I “don't want to forget where they are.” I'll screenshot something I'm browsing so I can “remember to look it up later”—something I fail to do 99 percent of the time. This all implies that I remember that they're “saved for later” on my phone in the first place, collecting digital dust.
Spring cleaning is great, and it should include your phone. I embarked on a journey to try to un-frick my digital habitat. Two apps made a huge difference with basically zero effort on my part.
I'm not a big fan of when people say an app is “like blank, for blank,” but Rodeo is like Pinterest for my life. I sat down with Sam Levy and Liz Friedland, two of nine Rodeo employees, to talk about this app that has drastically changed my life for the better. (That's not an exaggeration.) I was happy to learn that Rodeo's community feels the same way ("74 percent of users say that Rodeo is either extremely helpful or very helpful in making plans with their friends and family," according to the company).
Rodeo is still in private beta, but WIRED readers can download the app and use code 9156 to skip the wait
