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Icon Composer

Sketching, Composing, and… Failing? My App Icon Experience with Apple’s New Tool Icon Composer

Tried Apple’s new Icon Composer? I gave it a shot... loved the idea, but hit some snags. Here’s what worked, what didn’t, and what’s next.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Photo Library Bug Fixed and Mac Catalyst Can Browse Photos Too!

A critical bug is now fixed! When selecting an image from your Photo Library the app will no longer get stuck in a loop caused by the Apple permissions alert. And as a bonus Photo Library support now works on Mac Catalyst too.

SwiftUI

How I Handle External Links in My iOS App with a Built-In Copy Option

Ever tapped an email link and had it open in the wrong app.... or wished you could simply copy it instead? Here's how I made a SwiftUI view that gives users the power to open or copy any external link, whether it's a website or a mailto URL. Works in both iOS and macOS.

Simply Customize It!

How a Sleep Screen Sparked an App: The Story Behind Simply Customize It

What started as a curiosity about changing my reMarkable’s sleep screen led to a rabbit hole of templates, blog posts, bash scripts, and eventually a full app. Here’s how Simply Customize It came to be... and why I’m still building it today.

Simply Match It

Announcing Simply Match It!

Announcing a new app! Love fast-paced games or matching challenges? Try Simply Match It! Play for free with two players and no ads! Want more? Go premium to unlock extra players, bigger boards, and fun emoji themes!

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Smart Clean Up and 3.19 Support

Support for reMarkable 3.19 is here! This update adds a Clean Up tool to help manage storage and introduces new filters to organize your templates more easily.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: New Tools to Manage Template Storage

Running Out of Space? This update lets you check your reMarkable’s available storage and easily free up space by removing duplicates or moving images to alternate storage. Plus, enjoy clearer error messages and a refined macOS help menu for a smoother experience!

Simply Uncover It

Reintroducing Simply Uncover It! (Previously Simply Minesweeper)

We’ve rebranded! Simply Minesweeper is now Simply Uncover It to better reflect the gameplay while keeping the same smooth, ad-free experience you love.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Fix Template Syncing for Version 3.18

This update ensures seamless template syncing with reMarkable version 3.18 adding support for the new .template files and refining import logic. Read on for all the details!

Simply Minesweeper

Announcing Simply Minesweeper!

Announcing a new app! Love Minesweeper or curious to try this classic game? Play for free on a 9x9 board—no ads! Want more? Customize board size, mines, and colors with a subscription!

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Bug Fix and Small Additions

Fixed an issue when adding a new template from the browse view. This update also includes an added "delete all" button to the browse views for macOS (moved the already existing one in iOS) and added the ability to set/change the default category of any newly created template.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: PNG Image Resizing on macOS

Mainly minor fixes. The biggest update is for macOS which now has a fix on the calculated dimensional string which led to PNG resizing. On both versions there's several small changes like putting SVG before PNG when editing templates and adding the ability to add a template directly to a category.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Now With SVG Support

Added support to see, remove, and add SVG images to the templates. Also split up the resize button to be me more understandable.

SwiftUI

SwiftUI Overlays and Their Issue With Sheets

A bit ago I realized the sheets in my app covered up my overlay messaging. This wouldn't do so I figured out how to show the overlay from every spot. Check out how I created the overlay and fixed the problem here!

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Fix Template Syncing for reMarkable Paper Pro 3.15

Update required if connecting to a reMarkable Paper Pro with a software version of 3.15 or later; otherwise, any template syncing will attempt to connect with the wrong file. Also took the opportunity to make the app easier to navigate.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It: Update for WLAN Support

Announcing the Simply Customize It update (version 1.0.2) that includes support to run the WLAN command for you.

reMarkable

Switch Out Your reMarkable Paper Pro's Sleep Screen

With the reMarkable Paper Pro out I figured it was time to share an updated post on how to switch out your screen images! Come check it out.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Now Works With Your ReMarkable Paper Pro

Announcing the Simply Customize It update (version 1.0.1) that supports connecting to the reMarkable Paper Pro in addition to the older reMarkable devices.

SwiftUI

Create a Super Simple Shared SwiftUI Alert System

Do you want a simple shared alert system in your SwiftUI app that works in both iOS and macOS from, mostly, one location? No more moving it up and down a view spot seeing if it will work now!

Simply Customize It!

Announcing the MacOS Version of Simply Customize It

Earlier I announced my new app Simply Customize It and shared that it's currently listed on TestFlight in case any of you want an early look at it! Since then I've gotten the macOS version of the app functional and uploaded so you can test one

Simply Customize It!

Announcing Simply Customize It!

Back when I first bought my reMarkable e-paper device I hopped onto Facebook and through several user groups fell into the world of custom templates and sleep screen images. Right after opening it I needed to figure out how to connect so I could change out its sleep screen with

reMarkable

Update: Which Version of the reMarkable’s Templates Are Emailed Out?

Back during the summer of 2022 I tested which image type was used when you export or view a reMarkable notebook page. Recently, I redid the experiment and found the results had changed. Here they are!

reMarkable

Frequently Asked Questions I’ve Seen Around About the reMarkable

Over the last year or I've seen several reMarkable template related questions popup on Facebook user groups and each time I debate creating a post that answers all those questions. I finally decided to just make it and here's the result!

reMarkable

How I Solved My SSH Connection Error: No Matching Host Key Type Found

After a computer update I could no longer connect to my reMarkable via SSH as I had an error saying: "unable to negotiate with host: no matching host key type found". This is how I fixed the issue.

reMarkable

Which Version of the reMarkable’s Templates Are Emailed Out?

A while back I had a thought that led to me wondering "if you made a custom template with differing associated SVG and PNG files... which would you see when exporting it?" I had to find out so I concocted this little experiment and here are my results!