Love for tiny utility programs

These days, while I’m having more and more difficulties appreciating software in general, I’m getting a lot more joy and delight from tiny apps and little utility programs that offer very few features. In the past couple of days alone, I’ve discovered — or rediscovered in some cases — a few of these that I thought would be worth your time. The first one is History Book, from Zhenyi Tan (of And a Dinosaur’s fame) that I use as my new read-later app. The twist is that it is not really a read-later app. The app’s purpose is actually to be an alternative to Safari’s 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’ browsing history logs. 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…