A new beginning - eSteem Surfer
Since the beginning of Steem journey I've been using steemit.com and busy.org to post and comment. As we step into new year, I wanted to try some Steem dApps hence I stumbled upon a desktop app - eSteem Surfer. I've been aware of eSteem mobile app but apprehensive to use mobile app since I'm not a big fan of mobile apps as far as security is concerned. Hence I didn't gave a try. Recently I got to know about eSteem Surfer which is a desktop app and I was curious to explore it.
Github Repo: https://github.com/esteemapp/esteem-surfer
Downloading the app is not a problem, it is available for almost all the variants of OS, be it mac or windows or linux. You can easily download it from here. Installation was also simple.
eSteem Surfer provides some of the features which makes it interesting and unique. I believe these features are available for mobile app already but since I have never used its mobile app I wasn't aware of these features.
PIN
First and foremost is the PIN for accessing, it is useful if we want to restrict others from accessing our account while sharing the laptop.
Currency
You can easily see your account value, post payout etc in your local currency(including BTC). In Steemit we can see only in USD, whereas here we can select currency through the settings.
If you select BTC then all the values are shown in BTC, likewise I changed it to INR and all the payout values were displayed in rupees. I believe this adds more value to the user experience of the platform when they see the earnings in their local currency than USD everytime.
Schedule a post
I was missing this feature in steemit.com and busy.org though it is quiet common in Wordpress and other blogging platforms. I'm not sure when this will be added to steemit.com but glad that it is available in eSteem and patriko app. With this feature we can schedule our posts daily, helpful when we are planning to release articles as series. Weekly/Daily contests etc. I haven't used it in eSteem Surfer yet but will try in future.
Editor
The markdown editor is elegant. We can see word count and quick preview(side by side with sync scroll). Easily create tables in one-click. Creating tabular data in markdown is painful but this quick option makes it easy for simple tables, I hope this will be enhanced in future. We can save drafts and continue editing later.
Notifications
I'm not a big fan for push notifications but if you like to keep yourself updated and aware of activities then eSteem Surfer provided notifications whenever someone upvote your post/comment, reply to your post etc. It also show the percentage with which it was upvoted.
Conclusion
To sum it up, the following features caught my attention and worth using eSteem Surfer desktop app.
- PIN for access
- Settings for displaying account value in different currency
- Scheduling the post
- Editor - Ease of using table, word count
- Display VP and RC percentage along with time to recover.
- Notifications
I'd like to hear from other users about their experience with eSteem surfer.
PS: This post is published through eSteem Surfer app.
Hello, @lifecruiser!
This is a nice review of a very useful application. Your post is informative and well-illustrated with quality screenshots. Well done!
On the positive side, you managed to make this post personal by sharing your own knowledge and views; this is the kind of content we particularly like to see in blog posts. However, I wish you'd gone into more detail regarding the key features described in your post.
On the less than positive side, there were serious issues of grammar and style. Regardless, you did a good job, and I expect to see more from you in the future.
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Thank you for your review, @lordneroo! Keep up the good work!
You can transfer your Steem or SBD to anyone using that PIN too.
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Good to know. I wasn't aware of it.
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Yeah i told you because it is your first day. In surfer there are much more.
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Thanks !
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You don't need to be apprehensive of using eSteem mobile app. There is a PIN available that secure your account from hackers. Stay tuned for the mobile app V2 which will be released this or next week.
That's good, the other reason for not using mobile apps (in general) is the memory footprint, battery consumption/drain, privacy etc.
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