In this part 2 of my weekly planning video, I show how things went following last week’s plan and proceed to make next week’s blocks, this time without Shortcuts automation but instead using a couple simple keyboard shortcuts…
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Mike Schmitz, my co-host on the Focused podcast, has been hard at work developing a thoughtful newsletter where he talks about productivity and his Christian faith. I like the way Mike writes and you may too. It’s definitely worth checking out.
For small businesses, it can be difficult to stay on top of clients, leads, and projects that are evolving every day. Here’s how Daylite can help supercharge your team to shine brighter, handle more clients, close more deals, and execute more projects. Designed for Mac, iPhone, and iPad exclusively.
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Hooray, I’ve got a new Friends of Dave (FOD) Interview in the MacSparky Labs. Daniel McCann is a professor of medieval literature and a mac geek. During the Pandemic Daniel’s iMac got stolen and he ended up doing all of his work on an iPad for over a year. In this interview, Daniel and David talk about how to get work done on your iPad, Bibliotherapy, and how Chaucer was bending words way before Eminem did… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Early Access and Backstage Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
The Mac Studio and Studio Display reviews are dropping today. Some reviews of note include:
Jason Snell, Six Colors on the Mac Studio
“The Mac Studio isn’t for everyone. But for the people who have been dreaming of something in between a Mac mini and a Mac Pro, something that wasn’t an iMac, it’s the fulfillment of a dream.”
Monica Chin, The Verge on the Mac Studio
“There are very legitimate reasons that the Mac Studio is the wrong computer for all kinds of people. And as a reviewer scoring this product, I care so much less about those than I do about the sheer reliability of this device: the smoothness as you scrub the timeline, the snap of windows opening and closing, the wonder in people’s voices as they say “Wow, this is fast.””
John Gruber, Daring Fireball on the Studio Display
“I’ve been waiting years for Apple to release a good desktop display for under $2000, and in every single regard other than the camera, the Studio Display meets or exceeds my expectations.”
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I’m pleased to announce the opening of the MacSparky Field Guide referral program. Over the years I’ve heard from many customers who bought a Field Guide and then recommended it to a friend. I’ve always wanted a way to give back a little for those referrals, and now such a way exists.
I call it “Give 15%, Get 15%.” If you refer a Field Guide to a friend, they get 15% off for your referral. Once they purchase you in turn get a 15% referral credit that you can use on a Field Guide purchase for yourself.
To use this feature, click on “Refer a Friend” under your account setting while logged in. This will take you to a page with a unique referral link. Send that link to your friend, and they’ll get 15% off, and so will you when they purchase.
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated every March 17th. The religious feast day was meant to commemorate the anniversary of Saint Patrick’s death. He’s the patron saint of Ireland, and, according to legend, chased all the snakes out of Ireland. That’s been debunked, but it’s still a great idea.
On March 17, and every March 17, drive the snakes out of your home, and by snakes I mean any twisty, curvy, slithery cables you might have in your house that you don’t need anymore. Make this the day you take inventory of all of the cables in your house. Got any obsolete USB cables or other connectors around the house that you’re not using anymore? Gather them together and banish them. By “banish” I don’t mean throw them in the trash. Instead, find someone that needs them or get them to a proper e-waste recycling center.
How about it? Grab your green beer or Shamrock Shake, hunt for your snakes, and make this March 17th your annual cable inventory day too. Shoutout out to reader George G. for this idea.
My congratulations to Econ Technologies for releasing ChronoSync 10. ChronoSync has been the best syncing software on the Mac for a long time and it is great to see it evolve with macOS.
This major update contains full support for macOS 12 Monterey, and runs natively on both Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers. ChronoSync 10 contains many features and fixes most notably simple bootable backups for Big Sur and Monterey, iCloud support, and custom Archive location.
ChronoSync 10 features the return of the simple Bootable Backups for Big Sur and Monterey. Since Catalina, Apple split the main drive into two volumes: System and Data. Starting with Big Sur you could no longer copy the System volume. ChronoSync’s approach to creating bootable backups on Big Sur was a bit cumbersome. It ignored the System volume and could only sync the Data volume which was a less than ideal scenario. ChronoSync 10 takes advantage of Apple’s APFS replication utility (called ASR) to create a cloned image on the destination volume. Once the full system clone is made, ChronoSync will only handle the Data volume in subsequent syncs. This approach creates bootable backups that are straightforward and easy to maintain.
ChronoSync 10 offers custom Archive locations. Previously ChronoSync maintained an archive of deleted and older files on the same volume as the destination. Now ChronoSync can maintain an Archive in a different location than the destination. The main benefit is that an Archive can be placed on a different volume to maximize storage capacity. Maintain a backup on one device and the archive on another. In addition to custom Archive locations ChronoSync 10 features the Archive Mover which can be used to relocate an archive to another volume and the Archive Maintainer which easily manages the Archive so it doesn’t consume too much space.
ChronoSync 10 contains direct iCloud support which is two features in one. First, the ability to synchronize directly to iCloud storage. Files synchronized to iCloud will propagate to all other devices that you have associated with that same Apple ID for easy access. Second the ability to backup files from iCloud. People sometimes ask me how to backup their iCloud data. With this feature ChronoSync has you covered. Learn more at the ChronoSync website.
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I revisit the topic of task management to talk about Mike’s Obsidian task management experiment and our (very different) use of checklists.
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I’ve had several questions about how I use Fantastical. In this video, I walk through some of my favorite tricks and settings for making Fantastical dance…
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