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The obsession with usability extends to giving everything a shortcut key... Nobody else does this. Windows Phone has an app for that. I have a tile on my home

by Peroni 14y ago

The obsession with usability extends to giving everything a shortcut key... Nobody else does this. Windows Phone has an app for that. I have a tile on my home screen. Tap it and it creates a pre-populated email to my wife asking how her day is going.

jnye131 14y ago
Nothing says "I love you" like a template email.
- reddit_clone 14y ago
  Might as well put it on a cronjob and be done with it!
- Peroni 14y ago
  It started off as an experiment but when she created an auto-response to the email things quickly descended into ridiculousness. The fact that my wife constantly tries to 'out-geek' me is one of the many reasons I married her. In all seriousness, (this is HN after all), the WP App can automate tons of functions into a one tap process that otherwise would have required multiple steps.
  - scrumper 14y ago
    > auto-response to the email Sounds more like your respective phones are married :)
  - bsaul 14y ago
    You sound like a happy couple ! :))) I wonder why hollywood never did a "Mr and Mrs smith" with geeks instead of the usual spy stuffs.
  - jnye131 14y ago
    awesome, my comment was in jest.
wahsd 14y ago
add scheduling and you can start automating your marriage. Win all around.
Samuel_Michon 14y ago
On iOS, you can use Launch Center for that. You can make an Action, which when you tap on it creates a pre-populated email to your wife asking how her day is going. http://appcubby.com/launch-center/ http://appcubby.com/launch-center/
at-fates-hands 14y ago
A majority of the features described in the article are standard on all platforms. The first paragraph in the article didn't inspire me to think these were features the Blackberry alone could do. Like the different alerts? Pretty sure that's been a standard on all phones since about 2001.