I continue to waffle between analog and digital journaling tools. So I decided to use the o3 ChatGPT model to help me build a decision machine. Here’s a simple example of how to use the new ChatGPT reasoning engine.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Early Access and Backstage Access members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.
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The Lab Report for May 30, 2025
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Apple releases its anti-fraud report, Anthropic’s Claude 4 is out, and I share my thoughts on the Jony Ive + ChatGPT collaboration.
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You Need a Manifesto
On the recommendation of Mike Schmitz, I started reading You Need a Manifesto from the Stanford Design School…
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Supercharge Shortcuts Actions
I covered Supercharge in an earlier Labs video. But what I didn’t realize at the time was just how deep Supercharge’s Shortcuts support runs…
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The Lab Report for May 23, 2025
The Opal C1 Webcam is meant to be the webcam everybody actually wants to use. It\’s got tons of software features and a better lens system than anything you\’d find in most (all?) other webcams. It\’s time for me to kick the tires…
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Initial Impressions of SuperHuman Email
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Lately, I’ve been overwhelmed by email. So I decided to try SuperHuman…
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Book Club Pick: Tiny Experiments
Once again, the book club survey was not even close. The winner by a wide margein is Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Tiny Experiments…
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Some Initial Impressions and Workflows for NotePlan
NotePlan keeps coming up in the Podcasts and labs meetups. I’ve been doing some initial spelunking through the app and have a few experiments ongoing…
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Lab Report Podcast for May 16, 2025
In this week’s Lab Report, I cover a slew of rumors and address Apple’s current doldrums.…
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Testing Hidden Bar
Folks have been asking for a low bandwidth menu-bar manager. I’ve found one, Hidden Bar. In this video I share how it works.…
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