This week MacSparky is sponsored by SaneBox, the email service that adds power features to any email system. With SaneBox at your back, you add a powerful set of email tools that can work in just about any email client. SaneBox will automatically sort…

A lot of Email is routine and too often involves repeating the same words over and over again. Writing identical text to different recipients is a waist of your time and a productivity drain. Put simply, it keeps you from important work.  This week’s…

Project planning is the stuff of legend. Go to any big company and you will find somebody in a room somwhere responsible for project planning that spends weeks at a time in seminars trying to learn to use their Byzantine project planning software. It…

Something you may not realize if you are wearing an Apple Watch is that it is checking your heart rate every 4 minutes during the day. (It’s much more frequent when you are working out.) Your heart rate data is really useful to understanding…

This week MacSparky is sponsored by Agenda Minder. We all spend time complaining about meetings but not enough of us do anything to make them better. Agenda Minder is a Mac app that lets you pull meetings in from your calendar and organize them. You…

I’m pleased to welcome a new sponsor to MacSparky, PowerPhotos. There has been a lot of action in photo management on the Mac in the past few years and PowerPhotos is that powerful utility we’ve all been waiting for. If you have photos scattered…

I’m pleased to welcome back Tinderbox as this week’s MacSparky sponsor. Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. If you’re like me, you’ve got a lot rattling around in your brain and Tinderbox helps you make sense of it. Tinderbox is a…

This week MacSparky is sponsored by SaneBox, the email service that can start saving your bacon today. As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time to look at your workflows that work … and those that don’t. For a lot of…

This week MacSparky is sponsored by OmniGraffle. Did you know that the Omni Group recently released version 7 of OmniGraffle for the Mac? The new version adds several useful new features including Touch Bar support and the ability to convert lines and text into…

This week MacSparky is sponsored by my favorite mind mapping application, MindNode. MindNode walks that line of providing powerful tools while still keeping a simple (and delightful) interface. Mind mapping is something you really should try if you haven’t recently. I was originally unimpressed…