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Consolidating my messages with Beeper
I’d heard about the Beeper app a while ago, but didn’t actually check it out until recently. I should have looked earlier, as it’s fantastic.
Very simply, it’s an app that puts almost all of your messaging apps in one place, in one stream of content. This includes WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, LinkedIn, Signal, Instagram, Google Messages, and many others. I intentionally said “ almost all of your messaging apps” because it can’t handle Apple’s iMessage despite their best efforts. iMessage support aside, it’s a fantastic app.
For me, I primarily use it to handle my text messages, LinkedIn messages, and Facebook Messenger. However, I’m also in a new WhatsApp group (and I don’t often use WhatsApp), so it’s great to just tuck that in here too.
As another bonus, it solves a minor frustration with Google Messages. Google Messages only handles text messages, but they have a nice desktop tool to sync them. The problem is that it can only connect to one computer at a time, so as I’d jump around a bit throughout the day, I often saw this message:
It was merely a click to “fix” it, but if that window was buried I wouldn’t be getting those notifications. Beeper can be live on as many computers as needed, so that small annoyance has gone away.
