The concept of social media and where it should really fit in 2025 was the topic for this Deep Dive. The discussion and later questions gave some real insight.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Pathfinder members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.
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Meeting Summarizer with Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence
While Apple Intelligence isn’t on par with the frontier LLMs, it can still be useful…
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Initial Impressions of the Logitech MX Master 4 Mouse
Logitech released a new MX Master mouse, and I jumped in…
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Experimenting with KeyCue
This little utility from Ergonis allows you to pull up all your keyboard shortcuts on your Mac, across multiple apps. I used to use KeyCue ages ago but somewhere along the way, I stopped. Not true anymore.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Pathfinder and Insider members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.
Automating Project Creation using MCP with OmniFocus
On a whim, I decided to have Claude review my quarterly and monthly planning documents and then automatically generate my monthly and quarterly goal projects in OmniFocus. It’s an interesting new way to automate and, surprisingly, it worked on the first go.
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Simple But Useful Window Management Trick (with special guest Moom)
Here’s a clever little trick using Moom and my extended Apple Magic Keyboard to make the most of your window sizing with very little effort.
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Building a Handwritten Text Converter with AI
Thus far in my life, my chicken scratch handwriting has defied all attempts at optical character recognition. This is one case where artificial intelligence comes to the rescue. In this video, I demonstrate how to build a custom AI engine using Claude (it would work with any major LLM) as a machine for converting my handwritten daily logs into text for importing into Day One.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Pathfinder and Insider members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.
Editing Photos with Google Gemini
Google has recently substantially improved Gemini’s photo editing toolset. In this video I take it through its paces with some impressive and other not-so-impressive results.
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Using Karabiner-Elements with Your Magic Keyboard
Karabiner-Elements is a keyboard remapping tool that many folks think of in relation to fancy third party clicky-keyboards. But there is no reason you can’t also use it with your Apple laptop or Apple Magic Keyboard. Let me show you how.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Pathfinder and Insider members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.
Dictation Shoot-out 2025
There are a bunch of new contenders for voice-to-text dictation. In this video I test four of them to discover which are performing the best.
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