I have tried most of the condensers of Steem from the original one Steemit.com, then I also used the Esteem App for mobile created by Hive account@good-karma, the Steemgigs.org by Hive account@surpassinggoogle if I want to be hired or hire people for certain skills or services, Parley.io if I want Reddit style interface, Dbooks.org if I want to compile all my posts into chapters.

Of course, I used Dlive and Dtube and although I know of Steepshot but since I don't take much photography aside from food I don't use it that much. I have on another account use Dmania.lol and Zappl for shorter content.

There are so many applications and different uses being developed in the Steem blockchain. Now my personal favorite is busy.org made by Hive account@fabien . I started using this last November when Steemit went down a couple times and busy.org was the suggested portal to use. I have been using it ever since because of its interface and many features that I wish that Steemit had.

Bookmarks

Ever had that feeling that you really liked a post and know that you can use it in the future for example Hive account@carrieallen's very excellent 🌟ULTIMATE Markdown Tutorial🌟 so you either bookmark it in your Google or Firefox browser or you can use the bookmark feature of Busy!

Just click on the three dots on the upper right side of the post and click to save the post. When you want to look at save posts all you need to do is go to bookmarks on the upper left of your screen.

Activity Logs and Notifications

So you are the type of person that likes to know what happened to your account the last few hours and although there is steemd.com Busy also has a similar function that you can see your activities for the last few days.

Another thing it has is Notifications. Click on the bell icon and it will show you whoever made comments, followed or mentioned you.

Watching Dtube

It is absolutely genius that using the Busy Condenser you don't need to be redirected to the Dtube site as it plays there right away! Although in this version Dlive still goes to it site but I am confident that the Busy team will be able to do it the same way it did for Dtube.

Drafts

So you are creating your latest masterpiece and doing some research so you have multiple tabs open and would switch from the material to your busy.org blog when by accident you clicked on the close icon. Oh no! you are dead fret note because you can go to Drafts and see there a couple of the latest post not published is saved there.

Hopefully, it saved the latest there and you can retrieve it.

For good measure, I often delete already published drafts before I start working on a new one. Consider saving in a word document as well.

Edit Profile

Although it is pretty similar to the edit profile in steemit it has some additional features as you can add your other social media profiles and even your github to show in your profile.

Another thing that is cool with the Busy.org condenser is you can add your signature so that you don't manually need to add it everytime you create a post. However this only works if the person viewing your post is using Busy so if they are using a different condenser then it will be blank. Hopefully future releases may fix this.

Referral program

Now this is amazing as you provide a referral link to your friends and family that you invite to use Steem using the busy condenser and you earn 10% of what their posts get for 30 days. So you have the incentive to see them succeed in the platform.

Settings

Now, this is one of the main reasons why you want to use Busy.org.

Prior to you reaching 500 SP you will not have the capability of having a vote weight slider which to think of it is good if your SP is about 15-50 however when your SP is about 200 plus already it would be a good way for you to spread your votes more and have the capability to adjust it to 30-50% at a time.

This is a good way to maximize your curation rewards.

BONUS ROUND

There is another reason to use Busy.org. It has its own upvote bot and if you use the Busy Condenser and add the #busy in your post you will be getting an upvote from busy. It was written here Introducing @busy.org, the bot that rewards your influence

How does the bot work?
The bot will upvote you based on the weight of your followers. The more influential followers you have, the stronger upvote you will get from the bot.

To get an upvote, you need a minimum of 500 SP following you

To get a 100% upvote (around 10$ value), you currently need 12 Millions SP total following you (25 whales).
How to get a vote from Hive account@busy.org?
It's free and instantaneous, you just need to:

post using busy.org (works on both version: v1 and the new beta)

use the tag "busy". It doesn't have to be the primary one

The bot upvotes maximum 1 time every 12 hours per user. (2 upvotes/day/user)

Put those followers to good use even if they have forgotten about you! All you need is to get to a minimum of 500 SP cumulative of all your followers. You would be getting a 0.06 percent weight vote which according to a witness actually uses 1% of a vote of an account. That is about an average of 16-22 cents for a vote every 12 hours!

Recently I have been able to get more people to follow me and break into a million SP total for all my followers so I got upgraded to the busy.pay upvote bot. It's 1 % upvote is $1.01 dollars which are not bad at all!

So the more SP your followers have the bigger the upvote value Busy will give you.

If you are interested to know your followers total SP and you have no access to SteemSQL you can make use of Steemdb.com https://steemdb.com/api/accounts?account=@username

Then scroll down and look under your followers mvest

Now unless you can compute mentally how to convert mvest to Steem you can use this tool http://www.steemdollar.com/vests.php

This is a great way to ensure that your post does not turn to dust especially if most of your post when you start off might not reach 0.02 cents. A 0.20 cents upvote is still nice.

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There you have some of the reasons why I live using Busy.org when I write my blogs. It has tons of great features and is continually making updates to make the user experience better.