This Is My First App Store Review. Ever.
I’m not lying in the header, you know. I’ve never left a review before. In fact, I’ve never left a comment on YouTube. I’ve never responded to a celebrity’s Instagram post. I’ve only recently begun to embrace even liking content. And I say all this to illustrate that what readers are witnessing right now is, dare I say it, nearly a miracle, just barely falling short of a virgin birth. So far, I approximate that my lifetime usage of the application tetr is circa 10 minutes. When I explained to my partner that I’m leaving a review, he opined that it might be prudent for me to test-run the app for at least a day before I go around propagandizing on its behalf. But within a minute of using this tool, I realized a technological asset has never before struck me as profoundly as tetr. Please know that I’m being sincere. I understand the inclination to interpret an earnest tone as a contrived one, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth in this case. I read feedback from another tetr user saying something about how valuable the app is for specifically neurodivergent customers. I have ADHD and, like many women, didn’t receive a diagnosis until my 20s. Tricks such as texting myself have been survival tools for me over the years. I can’t even remember the first time I received a message from Me, it’s been so long. And I don’t quite know what it was about tonight, but I was inspired to Google, “iPhone apps for texting myself.” The search yielded lots of results, all too boring for me to consider reviewing. But halfway through Google’s first page was a Reddit thread with the same question as mine. Somewhere, buried in the responses, was a post from (I believe) one of tetr’s developers, very humbly recommending that their app might could be, sorta, kinda, maybe an option. I downloaded the app begrudgingly; this was far from the first time Reddit successfully prompted a barely-consensual action from me. And that brings me to the present. I don’t think there’s much of a need to state why it was love at first sight for me and tetr. I drafted this review in tetr. It was the first substantive text to myself. And the fact that I’ve spent far too much of my life typing out and editing this review should stand as tenable evidence for why tetr is a future Editor’s Choice. The best ideas? They’re the ones that everybody’s already had. I’ve thought to myself probably a dozen times that there should be a thingamabob, a doohickey, through which I can text myself far more efficie
