What tech has upgraded your life even though you are not techy?

Post date: 2024-04-20 03:09:46

I am not a techy person. Puzzling through buttons and menus does not come naturally to me. I don't hunger for new devices and when forced to use new devices I often get anxious and irritated. But if something is genuinely useful and labor saving and not too hard to learn, I will get the hang of it and then wonder how I ever lived without it.

Mostly I learn about new tech from friends. They'll show me something and sing its praises or use it in front of me and suddenly we're in a secret restaurant using a special discount or something and I'll become a late adopter.
Recently I posted a travel help question about using public transit on a trip to Chicago and found out that Google Maps has a public transit navigation setting. There's not much in the way of public transport where I live so this never came up but it was AMAZING on my trip and I will never not use it in the future where relevant. Unless I learn about something EVEN BETTER!
What was like that for you, a life upgrade from technology even though you are not great at technology? I'm itching for that "wow, everything is better now!" feeling that the google maps transit navigation gave me.

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