Helen RosnerInterview
Food correspondent (The New Yorker)
Adapted from Helen Rosner's interview on Uses This, published 6 March 2018. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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(I also pretty regularly commandeer my husband's 27" iMac for big editing projects, video meetings, and late-night deadline dashes -- nothing beats working at a gigantic monitor.)
After years of Mophie allegiance I finally switched to Apple's house-brand silicone charging case, which I love both for its slimmer profile and for the fact that it has its own battery indicator on the lock screen.
I've been through dozens of battery blocks, but my favorite is one I picked up in a moment of desperation at the Cleveland airport: it's a myCharge AMProng+, which has a fold-down plug so the whole thing goes right into the wall.
I buy superfine Pilot Razor Point marker pens by the case, in black and green, and keep handfuls of them in every backpack, tote bag, purse, and coat pocket.
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I'm still trying to find a research workflow that works for me, right now I save tons and tons of things to Pocket, which isn't really what Pocket is designed for -- it's a reading app, not an archive app.
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NYTimes Crosswords (iOS)+ 6 others
I get obsessive about phone games, right now I do two or three crosswords a day in the New York Times Crossword app, and I have a crappy backgammon app I play pretty mindlessly all day.