{"id":7065360,"date":"2026-09-24T01:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/love-for-tiny-utility-programs-the-jolly-teapot\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:52:43","slug":"love-for-tiny-utility-programs-the-jolly-teapot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7065360","title":{"rendered":"Love for tiny utility programs \u2013 The Jolly Teapot"},"content":{"rendered":"


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These days, while I\u2019m having more and more difficulties appreciating software<\/a> in general, I\u2019m getting a lot more joy and delight from tiny apps and little utility programs that offer very few features.<\/p>\n

In the past couple of days alone, I\u2019ve discovered\u2009\u2014\u2009or rediscovered<\/a> in some cases\u2009\u2014\u2009a few of these that I thought would be worth your time.<\/p>\n

The first one is History Book<\/a>, from Zhenyi Tan<\/a> (of And a Dinosaur\u2019s fame) that I use as my new read-later app. The twist is that it is not really a read-later app.<\/p>\n

The app\u2019s purpose is actually to be an alternative to Safari\u2019s browsing history. It vastly improves on it by making the content of the pages visited searchable as well, and not only the title of the page as it is mostly the case with browsers\u2019 browsing history logs.<\/p>\n

By default, the app will save only pages where an article is found, but it can also be set up to save all pages automatically, whether after a few seconds or after a waiting period. There is a third way to save URLs in this app: by clicking a button the old-fashioned way. This is what I do, and, despite a few bugs, I adopted the app very gladly.<\/p>\n

You see, I love an app like GoodLinks<\/a>, but somehow, I find it quite difficult to manage, and maybe over-complicated for my humble needs? Between the read\/unread status and the different tag folders, I end up being lost on what I\u2019ve read, what I want to keep, what I need to archive, and what I can delete. In History Book there are just folders, and that\u2019s it. Barely any other setting is available, and I love this purposefulness in an app.<\/p>\n

Also, and you must have seen this coming if you\u2019re a regular reader<\/a>,\u2009it\u2019s superfast and light (only 2.9 MB).<\/p>\n

I just wish it had a few comfort updates:<\/p>\n