Author Chris Bailey joins Mac Power Users to discuss his simple tech stack and interesting automation to tie it all together. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: NetSuite: The leading integrated cloud business software suite. 1Password: So much more than a…
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iA Writer Improvements
For reasons unknown, I took about a year off from using iA Writer and recently rediscovered it. They’ve made a lot of improvements. For example, you can import text into your document, and iA Writer will track that as imported text. This works well…
Continue reading →New Macs Coming Next Week
Apple is teasing an “exciting week of announcements” starting Monday. If you’ve been holding off on buying a new Mac, next week might be an expensive one. We’re expecting the M4 iterations of the MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and iMac, which have been anticipated…
Continue reading →The Lab Report for October 25, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Phase 2 of Apple Intelligence, two interesting interviews with Apple executives, Perplexity’s Mac app, and a feel-good music track from Roy Hargrove.
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I’m Still Digging Kagi
I just paid my monthly Kagi subscription and I’m reminded of how much I like this web search service. If you’re unfamiliar with it, Kagi is a search engine with no advertising. I’ve used it in place of Google search for most of this year, and…
Continue reading →Focused 215: The Sparkly Language Model
Mike and I revisit the topic of AI on this episode of Focused to consider what’s changed in the last year and discuss how it can be helpful for those of us who strive to live a focused life. This episode of Focused is sponsored by:…
Listen & read notes →NotePlan Auto-Templates
Recently, NotePlan released version 3.14, which includes the ability to auto-generate templates based on the calendar item. I note this because I requested this specific feature when we discussed NotePlan recently on the Mac Power Users. NotePlan continues to impress me. Since we aired that episode, I’ve heard…
Continue reading →Set Up Custom Mouse Clicks Using BetterTouchTool
I was recently inspired by Labs member Tim Stringer (founder of Learn OmniFocus) to assign custom actions to the mouse buttons while holding down modifier keys.
Reminders Exporter
Last month I shared an AppleScript to export OmniFocus tasks to Reminders. That triggered a slew of emails saying, “BUT SPARKY, HOW DO I PUT THEM BACK?”… This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
Mac Power Users 767: Apple in Education with Barrett Mosbacker
Educator and Apple enthusiast Barrett Mossbacker joins me on this episode of Mac Power Users to share his favorite apps and workflows and discuss how Apple is doing in education. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your…
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