Nick Milo from Linking Your Thinking joins Mike and me on the this week’s Focused to consider the role of focus in idea development and knowledge management. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Timing: The automatic time-tracking app for macOS. Use this link to save 10% on…
Listen & read notes →WWDC 2021: June 7-11
Today Apple announced WWDC will once again be an all-online event, this year starting on June 7. Although I will once again miss seeing a lot of my friends in the community in-person, Apple proved last year they are quite capable of delivering an…
Continue reading →Time-Tracking and Hacking My Brain
My friend and Focused co-host, Mike Schmitz just published his time-tracking opus over at Sweet Setup. It’s an excellent read if you are interested in tracking your time. I track my time in two ways. First, I have the Timing app running at all…
Continue reading →Five Years of the Apple Watch
Zach Hall is one of my favorite people covering the Apple Watch. He’s heavily invested in the platform but objective enough to call balls and strikes against Apple. I enjoyed his recent retrospective post looking back at the Apple Watch from his initial review in 2015 until…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 581: “Work” Flows with Stephen and David
On the latest episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I discuss our work beyond MPU and what workflows and tools we use to keep things running smoothly in our small businesses. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: 1Password: Have you…
Listen & read notes →Automators 72: Quality of Life Automation on the Mac
On this week’s Automators, we explain many little automations that can improve your quality of life on your Mac. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: The Intrazone, by Microsoft SharePoint: Your bi-weekly conversation and interview podcast about SharePoint, OneDrive and related tech within Microsoft 365.…
Listen & read notes →Automate Documents in DEVONthink (Sponsor)
A lot of folks know that DEVONthink, this week’s MacSparky sponsor, excels at bringing artificial intelligence to your documents and research, but did you also know DEVONthink has a killer set of automation tools? Over the last few years, DEVONthink has added some powerful…
Continue reading →Bartender 4 Gets Menu Bar Automation
With Big Sur, we got Bartender 4, the Mac super-utility that lets you take control of the menu bar. I’ve been using Bartender for years, but this latest version is really firing on all cylinders. I even run Bartender on my gigantic monitor just…
Continue reading →App Store Scams Need to End
Last week the FlickType developer sued Apple for, among other reasons, failing to police App Store scams. I think Apple could do a better job at this. I’ve heard from several app developer friends bemoan the existence of copycat apps made to confuse their…
Continue reading →Project Status Board
I recently read Cal Newport’s A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload . One of the things Newport talks about in the book is finding alternatives to email for different kinds of work. He explained that as a college…
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