A note from the maker
I'm Michael Shear. By day, I'm the Chief U.K. Correspondent for The New York Times, based in London. Building apps isn't part of that day job — it's something I do on the side, usually because I've run into a small annoyance and decided to fix it myself.
Research Sync was my first app, born from constantly losing track of articles I meant to get back to. Snap2 came next, after I got tired of losing business cards before I could enter them into my contacts. There are more than a dozen now — a receipt filer, a story tracker, a poker calendar, a browser for public databases — and nearly all of them started the same way, with some small annoyance I couldn't stop thinking about. They're all on the home page.
I'm not a professional developer — I build these with the help of Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant. They're free, built mostly for myself, and I hope they're useful to a few other people too. If you spot a bug or have a small idea, my email is at the bottom of the page.