I’ve chosen Obsidian as PKM weapon-of-choice, but that doesn’t take anything away from the strides made by the Craft team during the App’s first year. Craft now supports inline Markdown, backlinks, code snippets, images, videos, attaching PDF files, and rich link previews. With Craft,…
Continue reading →Mac Power User 614: The 2021 MPU Gift Guide
Believe it or not, it is time for the annual MPU Holiday Gift Guide. Listen here. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: TextExpander from Smile: Get 20% off with this link and type more with less effort! Expand short abbreviations into longer bits…
Continue reading →Ambient Video of the Millennium Falcon
I’ve been suffering from a creeping case of tinnitus over the years. My left ear rings at a minor third to my right ear. I’ve gotten used to it, but I notice it a lot more often in silent rooms. So I’ve become a…
Continue reading →Obsidian Live Preview
Many folks have written me to explain that they don’t use Obsidian because there is no live preview of the Markdown syntax. The Obsidian team is now firmly in the process of knocking that particular domino over. I’ve been using it only a short…
Continue reading →Daylite: A Superior CRM for the Mac (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Daylite, which also sponsored this week’s Focus Mode webinar. Daylite has been the definitive CRM solution on the Mac for a long time. While most CRMs these days rely on a boring, uninspired web interface, Daylite has native apps…
Continue reading →Timing App Update
Timing, a prior sponsor of MacSparky.com, is out with un update. If you don’t already know, Timing automatically tracks which applications, documents and domains you spend time withs that you can quickly figure out what you’re spending (and wasting) your time on. With this…
Continue reading →Focused 138: Hyper-Scheduling Revisited
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I return to the subject of hyper-scheduling after we’ve both been at it a few years. What works? What doesn’t? And how did Mike’s experiment go where he stopped blocking time? This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Privacy:…
Continue reading →The Focus Mode Webinar
We’re getting down to the wire with the Focus Mode Webinar. I’ll be giving it at 9:00 A.M. Pacific on November 10, less than 12 hours after this post goes up. You can still sign up with the above link. If you sign up…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 613: The Future of Work, with Sean McCabe
Stephen and I talk with Sean McCabe on this episode of Mac Power Users about how he runs his businesses from what can only be described as a Mac battle station while stitching together macOS apps and several cloud services to be more productive.…
Listen & read notes →Automators 88: Automating with Ryan J. A. Murphy
Ryan J. A. Murphy joins Rosemary and me on this episode of Automators to share automation tips for Obsidian, augmented intelligence, and automated parenting. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: TextExpander, from Smile: Communicate smarter. Get 20% off. Stripe: Learn more about how Stripe and…
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