MailMaven (an occasional sponsor around here) continues to evolve since their big launch last year. Version 1.2 brings in automation with a full AppleScript dictionary for finding, examining, manipulating, and composing messages. If you’re a robot builder, you can tie that to the MCP,…
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Aerial Photographer of the Year 2026
Jason Kottke pointed to the 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year winners, and I’ve been staring at them ever since. I don’t think we give aerial photography enough credit as an art form. When people talk about serious photography, they reach for portraits and…
Continue reading →Omni Group Building Toward MCP Support
Ken Case posted the Omni Group’s Post-WWDC Roadmap Update a few weeks ago, and one line jumped out at me. The Omni Group is now planning “first-class MCP support,” likely built through Omni Automation or App Intents. Case explained the team had been watching…
Continue reading →Lettera, A New Markdown Editor for Mac from Bear Developers
The team behind Bear just released the beta of Lettera, a native Markdown editor for the Mac. It grew out of Panda, the editor they built for Bear 2, and it’s now evolved into a standalone app. The feature list is the kind that…
Continue reading →Marked 3 Is Officially Out
Brett Terpstra just shipped Marked 3. It’s the biggest update in the app’s history. After more than a decade of Marked, that’s impressive. If you’ve never used it, Marked does one job. You write Markdown in whatever editor you like, and Marked shows you…
Continue reading →DEVONthink 4.3 and a Privacy-First MCP
DEVONthink 4.3 shipped last week, and the headline for me is a single feature. DEVONthink now has its own MCP server. If you’ve been following along with the Robot Assistant work, you know why that matters. MCP is the connector standard that lets an…
Continue reading →The Productivity Apps That Don’t Speak Agent Will Lose
Spark Mail shipped a Mac CLI and agent skill hooks last week. Read-only email access is free. Write actions (send, move, archive) are behind the Pro subscription. Readdle also published open-source automation recipes and persona hooks for anyone building on top of it. I…
Continue reading →The Robot Assistant Field Guide is Here
I spent the better part of a year experimenting with AI and coming away unimpressed. The chatbots were fine for generating a quick summary or answering a trivia question. But every time I tried to use them for real work, the same problem showed…
Continue reading →DEVONthink To Go 4
The DEVONthink team has been hard at work this year. Earlier this year, they released DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus for the Mac, and now they have released DEVONthink To Go 4.0 Kepler for iPhone and iPad. This is a major update, including features like Generative AI, custom metadata, versioning,…
Continue reading →OmniFocus Updates
As OmniFocus went through its SwiftUI transition leading up to version 4, I heard from a lot of readers who were impatient with the slow upgrade. That is no longer a problem. Now that OmniFocus is firmly in SwiftUI, updates are coming quickly. Version…
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