Make no mistake, Daylite isn’t just a CRM tool, it’s a Mac CRM tool. It isn’t for everyone, it’s for us. It’s for Mac people. People who ‘get’ that thinking exclusively and holistically about small business is actually thinking big. 

Just like a Mac, Daylite is an intuitive way of instantly integrating your Apple calendar and Apple mail, reminders, notes, tasks and more. Online, offline, wherever, it’s completely shareable with any Mac user and accessible from any macOS or iOS device. Daylite allows you to minimize the juggling of accounts, tasks and projects while maximizing leads, customer relationships and profits.

At once, your small business has everything you and your team expect from a leading CRM tool while having the stress-relieving perks you’d only expect from a made-for-Mac app. Name one other CRM app with the productivity-boosting power to seamlessly work well with Apple integration. 

It’s Daylite. Learn more. 

Have you ever want to banish someone into a black hole? You can with SaneBox, this week’s MacSparky sponsor. If you don’t want to hear from a sender again, or want to unsubscribe from a list without having to unsubscribe from a list, SaneBox will do the dirty work for you. 

The SaneBlackHole is the folder for training emails to your trash. You’ll move messages into this folder, and SaneBox will learn that all future emails from these senders go to the trash. 

Sometimes, unsubscribing from an email list can do more harm than good. Depending on the list you’re trying to remove yourself from, because you’ve identified yourself as a real person by unsubscribing, you may have opened yourself up to even more junk mail coming your way. Anything that comes from these senders in the future will be put directly into the SaneBlackHole, so you don’t even have to bother with unsubscribing.

Banish your email to the SaneBlackHole. And if you do make a mistake, you can just move the email out of your SaneBlackHole folder to the correct Sane folder. If you’re thinking about giving SaneBox a try, now’s a great time. You can sign up for your free trial, and you’ll get a $10 credit you can use towards a SaneBox subscription.

I’d like to thank TextExpander for sponsoring the site this week. TextExpander allows you to be more efficient and productive by taking the task of repetitive typing out of your hands. With TextExpander, you can use a keyboard shortcut or abbreviation to insert a snippet. Are you still hunting and searching and copying and pasting that thing you once typed out in email you once sent that would be a perfect reply to the email you’re currently composing? Fuhgeddaboudit.

Once you come up with your perfect response, be it a phrase, a sentence, or a paragraph, you’ve already created your snippet. Just save it in TextExpander, and then the next time you want to use it, type the shortcut or abbreviation, and see the snippet you created automatically expand your text. Do less repetitive typing and tasks by letting TextExpander do the work for you. TextExpander wants you to work smarter, not harder, and they’re offering MacSparky readers 20% off, so try for yourself today. 

This week MacSparky is sponsored by one of my favorite Mac utilities, BetterTouchTool. Apple’s built-in gestures for its mice and trackpads are great, but they don’t go far enough. With BetterTouchTool, you can add an entire suite of gestures to your mouse and trackpad for just the apps and actions that you need.

Do you want to move between tabs in Safari by swiping or tapping your trackpad? BetterTouchTool does that. want to put your Mac to sleep with a custom trackpad gesture? BetterTouchTool does that to. BetterTouchTool lets you hot-wire your trackpad and mouse. BetterTouchTool additionally contains some handy features like window snapping, a clipboard manager, a screenshot editor, and much more. This app is an absolute game-changer. Also, you can now join the BetterTouchTool Community at community.folivora.ai to learn how to get even more from BetterTouchTool. Users have shared some amazing presets there, including some very advanced custom Touch Bar setups that you should check out.

BetterTouchTool comes with a 45-day trial after which you can choose between a license that includes all updates for two years and a lifetime license. BetterTouchTool has been around for ten years, and I’ve been using it the entire time. With BetterTouchTool, I can make my Mac dance. You should too. MacSparky readers can purchase BetterTouchTool for 15% off at checkout by using the coupon code MACSPARKYBTT for a limited time. So don’t delay. Go to folivora.ai to learn more and take advantage of the special limited-time, 15% discount on BetterTouchTool.

If you’re a smallish business (up to 100 people), operating in a macOS or iOS environment, there’s a less-clunky, native Mac option that will certainly “check” all the usual CRM boxes while providing those uniquely intuitive and stress-relieving features that have become the exclusive domain of the Apple community. 

It’s Daylite.

From identifying that first seed of a lead to landing the business and the repeat business, Daylite stays with you and your team for the entire customer lifecycle. And all the resources are at your fingertips, online or offline on a Mac, iPhone or iPad.

In a Mac-inspired way, Daylite expands the definition of CRM and boosts your team’s productivity while reducing the steps and time spent searching, merging and typing. As a bonus, you can integrate Apple calendars, Apple Mail and Reminders, Siri and more. Online or offline, on any Mac device, to and from any Mac user, Daylite is the Mac-minded way of keeping your business, your team and yourself moving forward — fast-forward. Check it out here.

I’m always looking for things to help me save time, which is one of the reasons I dig TextExpander, MacSparky’s sponsor this week. TextExpander puts time-saving power at your fingertips. You set up a shortcut once, and then future you thanks you for having less work to do and saving some time. Instead of re-typing the same thing over and over again or copying and pasting a message or reply, use a few keystrokes with TextExpander and see TextExpander expand your snippets. For instance, if I type, “xdts” (four tippety-types), TextExpander will put a date and time string that looks like this: 2021-07-08 09:10. Dashes and colon and 16 tippet-types !?! Time saved. I didn’t have to stop and look at a calendar or clock for reference. I just hit a few keys, and, whoomp, there it is.

And you can do this anywhere you type because you can get your snippets on all your devices. Convenient, accurate, and consistent. TextExpander helps you communicate easier, and you get to focus on what matters most. If you’re even TextExpander-curious, now is the time to try it because they’re offering 20% off your first year.

This week MacSparky is sponsored by DEVONthink. There are a lot of ways to manage a database on your mac, but in my opinion, there is no better tool than DEVONthink. Just a few of the things I use DEVONthink for include:

• A reliable repository of research documents. DEVONthink will hold as many documents as you can throw at it. In addition, it makes import (and export) easy, so you can have all that power without feeling trapped.

• A research assistant. DEVONthink uses artificial intelligence to analyze and connect your documents in ways that may not otherwise occur to you.

• An OCR Tool. Everything you store in your DEVONthink Pro library gets OCR’d. It just happens.

• An Automation Tool. DEVONthink lets you build powerful automation subroutines into your library to help tag, move, and organize documents.

One of my uses for DEVONthink is legal research. I dump legal cases, statutes, regulations, and law review articles in DEVONthink whenever I’m working on a thorny problem and let DEVONthink grind on the documents before I do. It is spooky what DEVONthink finds when I start searching my legal database. It’s like having my own research assistant. You could also do the same with all of your personal records. Dump them into a DEVONthink database and let DEVONthink sort it for you.

DEVONthink supports multiple sync methods and lets you even use your own sync password, so everything is encrypted. If you’ve got an iPad or an iPhone, you can access your DEVONthink data there, too, with DEVONthink to Go.

It is this combination of power and security that makes DEVONthink the clear winner. You can think of DEVONthink as your paperless office. You can automate your workflow from capture to filing, editing to publishing. It stores all your documents, helps you keep them organized, and presents you with what you need to get the job done.

Interested? MacSparky readers can get a 20% discount on DEVONthink. Use the code MACSPARKY2021 at checkout. This is a limited-time offer, so check it out now.

This week, MacSparky is sponsored by Daylite. For small businesses, it can be difficult to stay on top of clients, leads, and projects that are evolving every day. Stressful situations like these are where Daylite comes in clutch.

Daylite is a CRM built for Apple fans like us, made specifically for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. This native app helps you and your team execute more projects, take on more clients, and close more deals. It is fully compatible with Big Sur and M1-powered Macs, and is designed to work in tandem with go-to Apple features. For example, you can share contacts between Apple Contacts and your Daylite database, and use features like Siri and Caller ID on your iPhone. Daylite is able to create contracts and other documents in no time, by pulling data from Daylite into apps like Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Additionally, Daylite includes full support for features like FaceID and TouchID.

Daylite takes you through the full customer lifecycle, making it easy for you to perform seamless handoffs between teams and departments without anything slipping through the cracks. Never miss a follow-up or worry about forgetting an important step in the project — Daylite keeps track of all the details for you and your team, so you can focus on growing your business.

Whether you’re in the legal, design, consulting, or other service-based industries, thousands of businesses trust Daylite to build stronger client relationships and grow their business! Daylite offers complimentary onboarding support to help new customers get started.

Ready to start scaling your business? Start your free 30-day Daylite trial today!

Things are getting better. You’re going to start seeing people. What are you doing about your calling cards? There are many lousy calling cards and just a few good ones. Do you remember the last time someone gave you a classy calling card, and you couldn’t help but think just a little bit more of them. That’s why you need to give this some thought.

Your calling card represents you. Why not bring some intentionality to your game? This week, MacSparky is sponsored by Hoban Cards, where they use a 1902 letterpress machine to make cards that your colleagues, clients, and customers will never forget. I sure love mine.

Evan and the gang at Hoban Cards are masters at the craft of designing and making letterpress calling cards. They have some beautiful templates to choose from, or you can roll your own.

I love handing out letterpress cards. It is always a conversation starter. Hoban Cards is where I go to buy them, and it is where you should too. Throw out those ugly, conventional, mass-produced, soulless business cards and reach out to Hoban Cards. Best of all, use ‘MacSparky’ to get $10 off any order. Get yours today.