ACIM Remind vs BeanThere Coffee Log

The FOUNDATION FOR INNER PEACE, original publisher of "A Course in Miracles," has joined with CDE Solutions to bring you this app. Features include: - Access to the Course's full "Workbook for Students," - BUILT-IN REMINDER ALERTS: The alerts fully customizable and have also been conveniently preset with the specific text to be remembered for the day and the alert intervals suggested by the Course. - Journaling: The app will allow you to record your thoughts for each lesson in a journal. These journal entries will be saved to your device so that you can reflect on them throughout the year. - Music: You have your choice of very beautiful high-frequency meditation music to play from within the app. This feature has been added to help you meditate and focus upon the lessons. - Daily Reminder Text updates: You have the ability to edit the reminder text for the day. This is especially useful for lessons that ask you to fill in certain portions of the reminder text with your personal thoughts. - Random Button: Let’s say you are in a situation where you are needing some spiritual guidance. You can click the Random button and read the text for the lesson the gets randomly chosen as a way to get insight and guidance from the Holy Spirit. - #/365 button: If you with your lessons to correspond exactly to the day of the year, simply click this button and that lesson will be selected. - Reminder Setup Alerts: You have the option of having an additional alert go off ten minutes prior to your lesson start time that will remind you to select and setup your lesson for the day. This way you never miss a lesson. You purchase the app ONLY ONCE. About "A Course in Miracles": The Course’s teachings are based on the practice of forgiveness as the key to inner peace and the remembrance of God. The "Workbook for Students", contained in this app, includes 365 lessons & reviews which are designed to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. This perception leads to inner tranquility and peace. As stated in the Introduction to the Workbook: “The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation.” You are asked only not to undertake to do more than one exercise a day. You might however choose to remain with a particularly appealing lesson for more than one day.

BeanThere is a log of every coffee you drink. Open an entry and fill in as much or as little as you like. The app works out where you are, reads the bag if you show it one, and files the entry on your shelf. Nothing is mandatory — including the photograph. WHAT IT DOES FOR YOU Point the camera at the bag and the roaster, the blend, the origin, the process and the roast level are read off it. Point it at a shop sign and the shop is found by name. Stand still for a moment and the coffeeshop you are sitting in is already filled in. Every value the app fills in is marked as a guess until you touch it, so you always know what has been checked and what has not. THREE SCORES, NOT ONE A brilliant espresso pulled by someone who resented making it, in a room with no chairs, is not an eight. So a cup is scored on the coffee, the barista and the room, kept separately and drawn as a single three-axis mark. A great cup from a surly barista makes a shape you will recognise a month later. READ IT BACK The shelf is your log as a grid of cups, newest first. The passport is the same entries read by place: a map of every shop you have been to, and under it the coffee belt with a dot on every origin you have drunk. SHARING IS A HANDOFF Neither Instagram nor Google Maps lets an app post on your behalf, and BeanThere does not pretend otherwise. It writes a caption, stages your photos, puts the words on the clipboard and opens the other app. You tap Post. The rating is burned into the corner of the photo on the way, so the score survives a repost. IT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE There is no account, no sign-up and no server of ours. Your log, your photographs and your scores are files on your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is analysed, and nothing is sold. The one thing that leaves is a coordinate, sent to Google to answer "which coffeeshop is this" — and only while you are logging a cup. APPLE INTELLIGENCE On a device that supports it, the bag reading and the caption writing run on Apple's on-device models. Your bags and your words are not sent anywhere to be processed. Without it, the app falls back to a keyword parser and plainer prose — everything still works, the fields just need more editing. BeanThere is for people who already know what they like and would rather have the record than the recommendation.