I’m happy to welcome a new sponsor this week with workflow.link. Created by the same developer as inShort, workflow.link is a project management web service. With workflow.link, you can keep an eye on your big projects from the 20,000-foot view while still having the ability to drill down into the details. 

This ability to combine the micro and the macro has always been one of inShort’s best features and it comes over to workflow.link nicely. As your diagram grows bigger, it can be split up, creating new diagrams until all the steps to achieve the goal are clear and feasible. 

From the resulting map of tasks, you can compose a detailed plan and start cranking widgets, marking the progress in the service. For convenient control of plans, tasks can also be displayed as ordinary Gantt charts. 

Like inShort, workflow.link’s design embraces the Theory of Constraints to automatically determines the critical path, configures time buffers and sets late starts. If you’ve used inShort in the past, you’ll get it immediately. You can even upload inShort diagrams to workflow.link or the reverse when moving from web service to app.

If you’re curious, give workflow.link a try. You can register for a free 30 day trial and really kick the tires starting today.

This week MacSparky is sponsored by PowerPhotos. Apple has done a great job the last few years getting photo management under control with their new Photos app and cloud storage solutions. Photos, however, like any Apple mainstream software, is missing a lot of geeky power tools serious users need.

That’s where PowerPhotos comes in. If you have photos scattered across multiple libraries that you want to merge together, have a library that you want to split up because it’s gotten too large, or just want to get rid of duplicate photos, PowerPhotos can help you get your photo collection back in order.

PowerPhotos allows you to work with multiple Photos libraries and store them wherever you want, including on an external drive or a network drive. Split up your giant library into smaller ones by copying photos and albums with a simple drag and drop, preserving metadata such as descriptions and keywords along the way. Or, if you already have multiple libraries, use PowerPhotos to merge them together while weeding out duplicates along the way. PowerPhotos also features a powerful duplicate photo finder, a browser to let you see your photos without even opening up Photos itself, a multi-library search feature, and more.

You may recall an app from the iPhoto days called iPhoto Library Manager that gave you a similar set of tools. PowerPhotos is by the same developer and it’s just as reliable.

So go check out PowerPhotos today. Best of all, MacSparky readers get a 20% discount. Just use the code MACSPARKY at check out.

Time is your most precious resource. You need to know how you are spending it. But time tracking is hard. Having to throw a switch somewhere every time you change tasks or projects never works and is super-distracting. As a result, you end up with bad data. 

The brand new Timing fixes that. Timing automatically tracks which apps, documents, and websites you use — without start/stop timers.

• See how you spend your time, eliminate distracting activities, and improve your client billing.
• Timing lets you stop worrying about time and focus on doing your best work instead!
• Timing also understands that your time tracking data is super sensitive, so Timing keeps it safe on your Mac.

I use this app on my Mac every day, and it’s helped me learn a ton about where I’m spending my time. This data is very useful in becoming more productive. 

Try it yourself with the free 14-day trial and get 10% off until the end of July with the links in this post.

This week MacSparky is sponsored by OmniOutliner. OmniOutliner is the best outlining application for the Mac, iPad, and iPhone and it just keeps getting better. One of the things I love about purchasing software from the Omni Group is that they continue to make their various productivity applications work better together. Most recently we saw this in the additional features allowing you to import OmniOutliner outlines into OmniGraffle. You already look pretty great, but when you import them to OmniGraffle, they can look amazing. Once your outline is in OmniGraffle, you can even add to or reorganize your outline using OmniGraffle’s outline editor. You can learn more about combining your OmniOutliner outline with OmniGraffle at the excellent Omni Group Blog.

The ability to move your outline to a different app is just one of the many features you’ll find in OmniOutliner. OmniOutliner makes it easy to create complex and beautiful outlines on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. They’ve got new business model for OmniOutliner that lets you get in with OmniOutliner essentials for the basics or the Pro version if you’re looking for the real power tools. Head over to the Omni Group today and check it out.

This week MacSparky is sponsored by SaneBox, the powerful email tool that can help you conquer your inbox. I’ve written before about SaneBox filtering, which is awesome. However, SaneBox smart filtering is just the beginning. SaneBox can also sort your inbox, keep track of reminders and snoozed emails, rescue email from your spam folder, upload attachments your cloud, and more.

It’s that attachment part that I’d like to focus on today. SaneAttachments allow you to say goodbye to bulky attachments and hello to automatic uploads to the cloud. With SaneAttachments enabled, SaneBox will monitor your inbox. When someone sends you a large attachment, SaneBox will save it automatically to your destination of choice. (I use Dropbox.) This allows you to keep the size of your email database down and gives you a reliable place to go find large attachment. If you like to automate, this gives you another avenue into Hazel. For instance, I have Hazel monitor the Dropbox folder where SaneBox puts attachments. If it sees something land there that matches a Hazel rule, Hazel will automatically rename and file it. This is all very powerful and just one more feature you get with the SaneBox account.

SaneBox is a great service that I use every day to manage my email. You should too. To learn more and over to SaneBox.com and check it out. MacSparky readers even get a discount.