Most-used app: Evernote. “We pretty much make Evernote to be maximally useful for people like me. It’s almost as if there are 350 hyper-talented people making an app specifically to make my life easier. I guess it’s not “almost” like that. It’s exactly that.”

Last download: Comcast Xfinity. “I just got X1 and the guy installing it told me to get this app. Always do what the cable guy says.”

Most surprising app on homescreen: Find My Friends. “I like how many people call it “Find Friends” which sounds kind of sad. I use it to see where my wife is when I miss her. She uses it to find me when I’m late for things.”

Favorite mobile game:Threes. “I found out about it on Touch Arcade and there’s a very heated war at Evernote for high scores now. I finally smooshed two 768s together a couple of days ago and it felt like the greatest achievement of my life so far.”

App you wished more people knew about: 3M Visual Attention Service. “It takes an image and, in a few seconds, returns a detailed heat map of how human beings will look at it. This is super useful for designing everything from app screens to banners. The bad news is that the 3M VAS app itself barely works. The good news is that if you can get it to work, it’s really high impact. I think this is just a research project for 3M but somebody ought to take it seriously.”

Least-used app: “I have a stack called Do Not Want with some of the starter apps from Apple that you can’t delete. But it’s buried deep on screen five or twelve or something.”

Voicemail greeting? Sort of. “Three years ago I replaced my outgoing voicemail greeting so it now says, ‘Hi, this is Phil. I can’t come to the phone now. I don't check my voicemail, so please don’t leave me any message here. If you want to get in touch with me, please email or text.’ And I’ve never checked my voicemail since. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Why should anyone leave you voicemail? It’s so inefficient and inconsiderate.”

Clean inbox? No. “You see those dots on the mail icon badge? Each dot is a digit. I’m a terrible person.”

__Text or call?__Text. “I don’t like it when people call me without a prearrangement via text or email. Similarly, I almost never call anyone without setting it up first. It’s extremely unlikely that I’ll be able to talk at exactly the time someone arbitrarily decides to call me, so it’s more efficient and more polite to send a text or email first. I have talked on the phone four times so far today, and two more times via Skype, Google Hangout, etc. All prearranged.

Remaining Battery? 51%. “My phone usually makes it through the day without charging, although I have power cables at all my various desks just in case. I also carry an external battery in my bag, since I go through more juice when traveling.”