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Matthew Guay

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Writer. Co-founder @reproofapp, a new collaborative writing platform, and Pith & Pip, a writing consultancy. Frm: @capiche (acq by @vendrhq), @zapier
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This Journaling App Saves a Moment in Time

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By Matthew Guay
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We independently review everything we recommend. We may make money from the links on our site. Learn more› I have an on-again, off-again relationship with journaling that’s spanned everything from half-filled paper diaries to a handful of apps. I’ll start journaling on a whim, only to drop the habit as life gets in the way. But there’s one journaling app that I always come back to when the urge resurfaces: Day One, which I first downloaded all the way back in 2011. The reason I keep coming back?
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Google Reader was building the wrong future

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By Matthew Guay
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What the Google Reader obituaries miss—and they’re many, beloved as it was by the commentariat—is that Google Reader was living on borrowed time from day one. It started life as a feed previewer, to ensure the Blogger team’s Atom feed parser was working. Only, this internal tool was strangely useful as a way to get caught up on the headlines from your favorite sites. “I think I built a thing,” Googler Chris Wetherell recalls telling a colleague.
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How to Choose the Best Language Learning App for Your Next Trip

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By Caira Blackwell Verified, Rosie Guerin Verified, Abigail Keel Verified, Matthew Guay
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CAIRA: I'm Caira Blackwell. ROSIE: I'm Rosie Guerin and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show. ROSIE: Caira, are you excited for your trip to Japan coming up? CAIRA: I'm pumped, Rosie, as you can probably tell. I'm just counting down the hours. ROSIE: I also know that you've been trying maybe to learn a little Japanese. How's that going? CAIRA: Yeah, I'm not going to demonstrate for you what I've learned so far, but it boils down to the basics, which is hello, goodbye, and thank you.
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