Hookmark 7.3 is out, and Luc Beaudoin and his team keep adding to what was already one of the cleverer utilities on the Mac. If you haven’t run into it, Hookmark links your stuff together across apps. Hook a PDF in DEVONthink to the…
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Mike Vardy’s New Book, Productiveness
Mike Vardy has spent his career inside the word “productivity.” He built frameworks around it, taught it, made a living off it. And for years the word itself bugged him. But don’t forget “Productivity” started out as a term for measuring the efficiency of…
Continue reading →Daylite Now Syncs With Google Calendar
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Daylite. My calendar is great at telling me where I need to be. It’s terrible at telling me why. The appointment says “Call with client,” and everything I need for that call lives somewhere else. Daylite just fixed…
Continue reading →Fantastical, Siri AI, and Keeping Every Calendar Honest (Sponsor)
This post is sponsored by Fantastical. Most calendar problems start when you have more than one calendar. Your work account knows about the client call, but your personal calendar thinks the hour is free. That is how you agree to lunch while you are…
Continue reading →MindNode Ships MCP Support
I’ve made no mystery of the fact that I think the way we interact with productivity apps is changing. I was happy to see my favorite mind mapping app, MindNode, get MCP support today. It’s Mac-only and well done, giving the user read-only or…
Continue reading →Daylite Puts the Whole Client Relationship in One Place
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Daylite. For years I ran a law practice, and the hardest part of client work was never the work. It was keeping track of it. Where that email went, what we agreed to on a phone call, which…
Continue reading →Chris Bailey’s New TEDx Talk
Chris Bailey has a new TEDx talk out, “12 Things That Motivate Everything You Do.” It’s another TEDxManchester appearance for him, and it’s the condensed version of the argument at the center of his book Intentional, which I recommended to the Labs book club…
Listen & read notes →Why I Killed My Daybook
As we all experiment with AI and how it can help, I went down a rabbit hole over the last month that I wanted to share. I called it “The Daybook”. It was an automated daily note. It ran every night, pulling in my…
Continue reading →Claude Cowork Made My Quarterly Review Better
My friend Jim Eagar wrote up how he uses Claude Cowork for his quarterly review, and it’s a great read. Jim’s been doing serious work on the intersection of reviews and AI, and he’s making real progress. The part I want to underline is…
Continue reading →Drafts Adds Encryption and a Command Line
This post is sponsored by Drafts for iPhone and iPad. Drafts is where text starts for me, and has been for years. Any time I have a thought, a task, a phone number, or the first messy paragraph of a blog post, it lands…
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