Well, no other voting tool is so closely linked to your email – no link pasting or add-ons to install. Also, I’m asking you to make a choice, not for a long opinionated response. Voting is a great way to get the Yes / No you seek (and if you are a minimal sort like me, then all that chaff around the response itself usually just gets in the way). If you have composed your question carefully, and if a clear vote is appropriate, maybe there is still life in the email voting button.

I continue to manage technical teams, so you might say that I am a technical manager. However, 'technical' is now the least demanded of my skills. Having a technical background – where the bulk of my skill was previously focused – makes some of the roles I must now fulfil pretty challenging and mentally demanding, but in very different ways than when addressing technical needs or problems. Does this make me less of a specialist, and more of a generalist?

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Of the two, my preference has been to use the desktop browser interface simply because it has the most accessible feature set. It also allows me to tinker with some of the other site settings, but perhaps that's not such a good idea – I do have a tendency to forever be searching for a better theme. The desktop version also allows me to schedule posts, which I sometimes find useful for posts that perhaps I want to write now, but publish later, and then tune some of the publishing options at the same time. Often I like to write in the evening but hold on to the post until the following morning when I know that a post to Twitter of LinkedIn will get more readers.

The WordPress iOS app is a little more limiting, nothing major, just some of the features you might sometimes enjoy having to hand. When it comes to writing, the app is fully functional and does everything you need for publishing content. There are other apps you could use, and I've tried a few before, but none has really impressed me that much. I suppose I've never been massively impressed with the WordPress app either. It's okay, but for me that's about as far as it goes.

So, why Blogsy? Perhaps a bit of an impulse buy, I suppose. I've also been disappointed with the fact that I haven't written much over recent months. Just before the new year, I purchased a copy of DayOne, a journal app. I've never kept a journal of any kind before, but DayOne has proven to be both enjoyable to use, and persistent enough to keep me writing every day since. I don't write in great depth, or about every last detail. I just write enough to hopefully provoke the return of some enjoyable memories at a later date. There's nothing overly flashy about the DayOne app, it just lets me do simple things like write some text, and add an image – and thats all i need. That's what I'm expecting from Blogsy. DayOne is not over complicated, but just offers the right level of features and function. That's what I'm expecting from Blogsy. DayOne encourages me to keep writing, without it feeling like a burden. That's what I'm expecting from Blogsy.

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