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Hi, mates! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your information to the very best and Verge-iest stuff on the earth. (If you’re new right here, welcome, comfortable pumpkin spice season, and in addition you may learn all of the outdated editions on the Installer homepage.)

This week, I’ve been studying about Lizzo and Uniqlo and book thieves and Max Verstappen, obsessing over each Black Rabbit and The Lowdown, consuming aggressively too many Pop’ums pretzels, listening to every thing within the AirPods Pro 3s, updating my outdated Ray-Ban Metas to see if the AI is any good, meal planning with Crouton, and posting all my junk at no cost on Nextdoor.

I even have for you a powerful new GoPro, an e mail service price making an attempt, a few thrilling new video games, and far more. Oh, and ship me extra information about your lists! I’ve gotten 1,000,000 nice emails about what lists you make and the way you make them — we’re going to do one thing large right here subsequent week, and I’d like to function all people’s ideas.

Finally, a giant change to let you know about: in a few weeks, Installer is turning into one in all The Verge’s subscriber-only newsletters! That means going ahead, the one option to get Installer will likely be to subscribe to The Verge. Why? Because constructing a group of subscribers is one of the simplest ways ahead for The Verge, and making the subscription price paying for is how we get there. Our checklist of subscriber perks is stuffed with good things, and going ahead that features this text.

If you’ve gotten any questions, hit me up, I’ll reply all of them as finest I can. Here are a few key issues:

If all goes properly, this alteration ought to go into impact the week after subsequent, with situation 101. But I’ll hold you posted. Anyway, sufficient housekeeping! Let’s get into the good things.

(As all the time, the very best a part of Installer is your concepts and suggestions. What are you enthusiastic about this week? What have you ever been studying / watching / taking part in / listening to / constructing out of Legos? Tell me every thing: [email protected]. And if you recognize another person who may get pleasure from Installer, ahead it to them and inform them to subscribe right here.)

I wish to share my homescreen right here each six months or so, since as Installer’s primary Tryer Of Things I’m perpetually altering it up. Since subsequent week is Installer 100, and I’ve a enjoyable (and much-requested) individual lined up already, I figured I’d share this week as an alternative. The previous couple of months have included numerous self-reflection about what, precisely, my cellphone is for. I uninstalled TikTok and Instagram, and haven’t missed them a bit. Any app that’s designed to be checked out — watching one thing, scrolling, no matter — I both deleted or made tougher to seek out. As a lot as doable, I need my cellphone to be for doing a activity, after which placing the cellphone away. Except for podcasts, music, and studying. Those issues are effective. They’re allowed.

All of that’s to say, right here’s my homescreen now, plus some information on the apps I exploit and why:

The cellphone: An iPhone 16, in blue. I nonetheless actually love the colour. I don’t love how shortly my battery dies, solely a 12 months later.

The wallpaper: Solid black. I’d been experimenting with this for some time, however as soon as iOS 26 confirmed up and Liquid Glass made every thing extra chaotic and colourful, the all-black look simply made every thing really feel somewhat calmer. I miss my child each time I flip my cellphone on — however the concept is to have a look at my precise child somewhat extra typically, you recognize?

The apps: Google Maps, Diarly, Phone, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Camera, Messages, Notion Calendar, Workflowy, Arc Search, Joi Planner, Remind Me Faster, Craft, Instant Notion.

The first web page is the apps I exploit, and need to make use of, each single day. The just one which may go away is Diarly – I simply can’t resolve whether or not I prefer it or Day One extra. Everything else might be unsurprising, besides perhaps Workflowy, an infinite outliner of a notes app that simply works the way in which my mind does. That staff has been transport rather a lot not too long ago, and so they received me again within the app over the summer time. It’s now the place I handle every thing… till I find yourself going again to Notion or Craft once more.

The second web page is all super-fast enter. The prime row is all Apple Shortcuts stuff for including hyperlinks or textual content to totally different locations — my day by day notes, a working checklist of stuff to incorporate in Installer, that form of factor. Joi Planner is the best-looking app I’ve discovered for simply seeing Apple Reminders and calendar occasions in a single place; I take a look at it each morning planning my day. Remind Me Faster is for super-fast Reminders enter, and Instant Notion provides stuff to Notion manner sooner than opening the app itself. I exploit them each on a regular basis.

So far this setup is working rather well. I’m undecided it’s making me use my cellphone any much less… however I’m positively not catching myself infinite-scrolling as a lot. Small wins, you recognize?

Here’s what the Installer group is into this week. I need to know what you’re into proper now as properly! Email [email protected] or message me on Signal — @davidpierce.11 — along with your suggestions for something and every thing, and we’ll function a few of our favorites right here each week. For much more nice suggestions, try the replies to this post on Bluesky and this post on Threads.

“The new Ramble feature of Todoist is a game changer — can just brain-dump by talking, and it orders everything into perfect tasks with descriptions and due dates.” — Jim

“I’ve got my whole team using Klack now. We’re now slacking *with purpose.*” — Brett

“Slow Horses is back, that’s really all I care about this week.” — Eli

“When my wife heard you got back from paternity leave, she said that i have to recommend this app to you. It’s called Dairy Bar, it’s made by another mom to help track pumped milk that goes into storage, so you can ensure you use the breast milk while it is at its best and stay on top of the storage supply!” — Pradeep

“Borderlands 4, or as it should be called, Fourderlands. Turns out nailing headshots with a revolver sniper rifle is a timeless formula.” — Will

“This week I bought my first NAS: I got the AOOSTAR 4 Bay NAS with 4x4TB IronWolf drives. I’m a photographer and I’m finally done paying for Google Photos AND OneDrive, I’ll be using Plex to store all my media and continue on my journey to take back control of my data after recently moving from Windows to Linux!” — Craig

“Rogue Words for iOS is the next Wordle. I’m calling it now. Completely free, made by one dude. It’s Scrabble meets Balatro and it’s addicting as hell.” — Ryan

“Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is weirdly popular 25 years after the original AoE2 came out. Spending a lot of time playing and watching streamer T90 recap low ELO player games (i.e. people who play poorly like me).” — Ian

“Huge fan of Wednesday Season 2, but after watching it, I ended up bingeing A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and honestly enjoyed it way more. Totally hooked!” — Srirudran

I usually attempt to not do an excessive amount of self-promotion right here in Installer, so apologies whereas I aggressively do exactly that: we’re launching a brand new present, it’s known as Version History, and I’m VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. I’ve been noodling on this concept for a very long time, and the pitch is principally “let’s do a rewatch show about technology.” (Watch the trailer here!) We’re telling the tales of crucial merchandise ever, whereas additionally hanging out and chatting about our experiences with the merchandise, their legacies, how we really feel about them now, and a lot extra. We’ve already made eight episodes, and so they’re popping out over the course of the subsequent two months.

If you want… stuff, I believe you’ll like Version History! And it will imply the world to me for those who’d subscribe and provides it a whirl. The present launches subsequent Sunday, and I swear, ultimately I’ll cease speaking about it. Just not but.