Looking for some widget recommendations outside of the usual Google-made suspects? Here are a few of my personal favorites.

You may not know it, but there's a world of widgets just waiting to be explored on your MacBook. Widgets are tiny apps you can place on your desktop to help you do all kinds of things, like keeping up ...

The single note widget offers more interactivity than the app’s existing widgets. The single note widget offers more interactivity than the app’s existing widgets. Google is introducing a new widget ...

I'm going to preface this piece by saying the choice of widgets is personal, and what might be useful to me might not be useful to you. Even so, there's a widget for everyone, and depending on the ...

A few days ago, as I was playing around with my Lock Screen on iOS 16, I wondered: would it be possible to use the hidden Apple Notes URL scheme to create widget launchers to reopen specific notes in ...

Getting specific information at a glance is key to how I use my smartphone.

The iPad is an insanely powerful device, and if you are using one with a keyboard, it turns into an entirely different beast. Now, despite the Mac-like enhancements that arrived with iPadOS 26, ...

Google Keep has turned into a really solid note and list keeping app over the years. Google has expanded its feature set to make it one of the best free cross-platform note apps around. A little over ...

Samsung is pushing a new update to its note-taking app Samsung Notes. The latest version of the app (v4.4.08.55) adds a new widget option called Note List. It already offers three more widgets, namely ...