I use esteem for a post each day and a spoiler for this review is that:
I love esteem!
I have been using esteem for a few months now, but when I saw the call for this contest week ago, I decided to pay attention for 7 days and look at esteem with a fresh eye.
I use esteem on my windows laptop, s this is the version of esteem I am reviewing. There are many other versions for phones and apple, but I do mot have them.
Even though I love the esteem dapp, I do have some complaints. But first, the good stuff.
Good points of esteem
Side by Side Editor
This is my favorite feature of esteem. I am moving fast with many tasks and use several dapps to post with. But almost every post starts in esteem.
I write post here because I can see the results as I type. All of the other editors I use have the finished post down below and flipping up and down to check my work for typos and formatting wastes a lot of time.
If I am using another dapp for the post, I usually write it in esteem and then copy it into the other dapp for publishing when I am done.
Post Upvoting
Esteem and its trail upvote my posts about 80% of the time I publish them. This upvote is usually 1%-6% of their power and is at least half of the rewards I will eventually receive. I love steem for the interation, but I am also looking to maximize my rewards. So esteem is a great place to post each day for this reason.
Spell Checking
I am a typo queen! Esteem had a recent update to include spell checking and this is another big help to my speed in posting. Since I make so many typos, it is really helpful to have them pointed out for me.
Save draft function
I am so happy to be able to save my work and go back to it later. I have many posts on the go at all times, so this helps me when I can only do part of the task.
For example, I might find photos for a post and not have the text ready. Other times I might have the text and need to hunt the photos on my hard drive. Either way, esteem helps me keep working efficiently.
Scheduling function
How did I ever exist with out this? The abilty to create a post and have it go out later is a real time saver.
Table creation
I can create tables for data now! I was never able to do this before in any other editor. I have tried a failed a few times. Now esteem makes it easy.
Easy access to other markdown functions
Bold, Italics, headers, quotes and other markdown codes come with the click of the mouse on esteem. I sure miss this when I do not have it in other dapps.
Drawbacks with esteem
The spellchecker is not complete
Certain steem related words like "upvote" and "dapp" are marked as errors.
Sometimes work is lost
Since I am using a laptop with poor wifi, I have lost work a few times when screens refresh unexpectedly. I think this is more my problem then esteem's problem, but it is still an annoyance.
Unprocessed portrait photos sometimes come in sideways
I cannot predict when this will happen. If it does, I import the photo to another dapp and then copy it to esteem. Problem solved, but with additional time spent.
A look at the side by side editor and buttons for markdown codes
Notice the scroll is independent for each window. I love this and consider it to be a benefit.
In Conclusion: esteem for the win!
As you see I have only two weak drawbacks and plenty of great benefits with esteem. I anticipate many more happy times of posting ahead. I recommend this dapp to anyone and often do. It is listed in my main minnow tips post below.
Thank you @good-karma and team for such a wonderful dapp, and my friend @iamjadeline for relentlessly nagging me until I would give it a try.
My post is for the blindtest contest initiated by @blind-spot. This is the first of a series, and I hope to review more dapps in the future.
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Minnow tips!
Here is my latest minnow tips post if you struggle here. These tips can help you even if you are not new.
Monday Minnow Tips for Everyone from @fitinfun
Contents of the Above Post
What should I do EACH DAY on STEEM with low power?
What to do with your STEEM
Are you shooting blanks with your votes?
Should you use an autovoter?
Join qurator
Do not post to nowhere
Why bother to comment?
How and Why to use kryptonia
How to get Upvotes
For Twitter Users
How and Why to lease delegated sp
Curation Trails
Using Discord
Please Help Me Keep Helping at STEEM
Recent events have not been easy, and you can read about them here:
Situation Critical – My rent and wifi are not paid and now are both overdue
UPDATE: I am so happy and relieved to tell you that:
- my rent and a wifi top up have been paid.
- the money sent to my US paypal account has arrived, through Thailand to Malaysia!
A bigger post describing current events will be posted soon, but I want to let anyone checking on me know that the first part of the situation is solved and that at least I will not be cut off from the world without a roof over my head.
And I can afford to go to Singapore for my required visa trip. Can you go to Singapore for three days and spend a total of $75 USD? Watch me!
I am so grateful to you all.
I am dedicated to STEEM and trying hard to carry on with your help. Here are some ways you can help and I would love to hear of any suggestion you may have for me.
Send any amount of STEEM or SBD to @fitinfun
I live in the 3rd world - yes, one STEEM will help me.
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If you can "only" offer encouragement and good wishes - It is enough.
If you can do more and think my presence here has value, I hope and pray you will.
This is the power of STEEM.
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That was a good review and I should give it a try... I have been using Steempeak for the scheduling function and wouldn't want to be without it.
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eSteem Surfer has scheduling post and many more features like, notifications, drafts, bookmarks, top posts, etc.
I will check it out - the git-hub thing is a bit confusing to me... not a tech person...
Really a wonderful review mam i will also try reviewing the mobile app as i am using it only.
Posted using Partiko Android
Go quick! It needs to be done today :)
Here is quick link for v2 of Mobile app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.esteem.mobile
Thanks for sharing the link buddy.
Posted using Partiko Android
Thanks for reviewing and testing...
Could you elaborate more on this issue? Because this shouldn't happen and I want to see what might be causing this, if you could reproduce or provide steps to get this issue, it would be really helpful.
Hi @good-karma, I am glad you like the review and I am glad I got the place and chance to post it.
I am in Malaysia on a wifi "gadget" called "YES" and I really should not put any blame on esteem for losses. I move too fast to really give you details from older problems. But in general:
This happened a couple of times. Now I make sure the wifi is good before I hit the post button. I have not had the problem again. But if I do, I will pay attention and get screenshots for you.
As you see above, I love esteem. I am so grateful to you for creating it. Thank you for visiting my post and this and all upvotes. I really appreciate the support.
Thanks for details! We are adding connection alert feature in next release, whenever phone doesn't have internet, app notifies user about it, hope it will solve this problem...
That would be a wonderful help for me. This is the first time I have not had reliable wifi - ever - and I need all the help I can get! Thank you so much, and I will be so happy when this comes in.
Esteem? Have not heard a lot about it. Thanks for the heads up , will have to check it out
It's a good one! I know you will like using it. Please let me know what you think after you try, @robertandrew.
Good review. You've talked about some of the things I left out. I use eSteem for its excellent editor, too. And now I need to try version 2. 😃
I didn't know that is your son. :)
Yup! That's my baby. Six feet two now and 25 years old but still :)
Howdy fitinfun! I agree, esteem is a wonderful way to go and I like that they make improvements constantly so it will only get better! Great review!
I will have to try this app out. I have been using steempeak and steemit, but I am always ready to try something new. Thanks so much for the suggestions and I will give it a try now.
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