Tasks are great but sometimes the wrong tool. On this episode of Focused, Mike and I make the case that habits are underrated and can help you where projects cannot. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Timing: The automatic time-tracking app for macOS. Use this…
Listen & read notes →The Text Case Gets Flows
Text Case, a text transformation app, is out with a new update. Version 2021.1 adds quite a bit of new functionality as the major feature of this update is the addition of flows. Now it turns the various formats into building blocks that can…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 573: Rosemary Orchard Returns
The Queen of Automation drops by the latest episode of Mac Power Users to talk about her current gear and use of Plex, as well as how she is using HomeKit and managing files. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: TextExpander…
Listen & read notes →The BIG Ready Conference
Mike Vardy is putting on The BIG Ready conference on February 2. (I’ll be on the retreat panel.) It looks to be an interesting conference with a lot of speakers lined up. It’ll be the first such conference I’ll be attending during the pandemic,…
Continue reading →Automators 68: Stephen Millard and ThoughtAsylum
Stephen Millard from ThoughtAsylum joins us on this episode of Automators to share his automation journey and his extraordinary ecosystem of plugins Drafts. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: The Intrazone, by Microsoft SharePoint: Your bi-weekly conversation and interview podcast about SharePoint, OneDrive and related…
Listen & read notes →The Annual Six Colors Apple Report Card
I participated in Jason Snell’s annual Apple Report Card, that published today. In general, it seems the community is pretty happy with the way Apple is doing things lately. Most notable to me is the steady increase in satisfaction with the Mac. That jump…
Continue reading →SaneBox – A.I. For Your Email (Sponsor)
The term Artificial Intelligence is thrown around so much these days that it should be a drinking game. Lots of folks talk about it, but there are few places where you can see it working for you. One of those, however, is this week’s…
Continue reading →Innovating when You’re Big
Yesterday Apple had a good day. They reported 2021 Q1 income and things are going gangbusters. $111 Billion (with a B) in one quarter. Moreover, Apple now reports 1 Billion active iPhone users. It’s all nuts. Success like that makes it hard to innovate.…
Continue reading →Retaining Knowledge with Readwise.io
I read a lot in areas ranging from the finer points of cooking gumbo to recent developments in California trade secret law. For a long time now, I’ve done this reading digitally. I read long-form articles in Instapaper and books in the Kindle app…
Continue reading →TextSniper — Screenshot to OCR Tool
I occasionally run into the problem where I need to get some text from an image, document, or website that does not provide for copy and paste. My old tool for pulling text out of screenshots stopped getting updates, so I went looking for…
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