I’ve heard from a lot of listeners/readers about the new Craft app and I’ve spent the last few days taking a closer look at it. Craft is one of the growing crop of intelligent notes/thinking apps. It has the ability to make notes both…
Continue reading →Fantastical: Apple’s Mac App of the Year for 2020
Congratulations to Fantastical for earning the “Mac App of the Year” award from Apple. I pay a lot for app subscriptions. Sometimes I feel like I’m getting ripped off but not with Fantastical. In the year since they’ve gone to the subscription model, they’ve…
Continue reading →A Step in the Right Direction of Restoring the Proxy Icon to Its Rightful Place of Glory
I’ve written before about my biggest gripe with Big Sur being the unnecessary cuteness of hiding the proxy icon and requiring a delayed mouse hover to get it back. Holding down the shift key makes the proxy icon appear immediately when you hover near,…
Continue reading →Zettelkasten Defined
Lately, I see the term “Zettelkasten” show up everywhere as this explosion of research and personal knowledge management applications is taking shape. The term is more nebulous than you’d think. Here is the best description of the canonical Zettelkasten method that I’ve read. While I’m…
Continue reading →DIY Touch Bar
Stephen Hacket has been upping his game on his Touch Bar using BetterTouchTool along with Keyboard Maestro to run setups on his laptop. This all grew out of a similar workflow he’s been using on his Mac Pro following some gentle encouragement from me that he buy a…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 564: Taking Pictures and Enriching Lives with Austin Mann
Stephen and I talk with photographer Austin Mann on the latest episode of Mac Power Users about his work and his annual iPhone camera reviews. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: TextExpander, from Smile: Get 20% off with this link and…
Listen & read notes →Field Guide Black Friday Sale
I don’t often run sales on the MacSparky Field Guides. Instead, I price the courses so, in my opinion at least, they are always good values. Nevertheless, I decided this year to make an exception. Through this weekend only, all of the MacSparky Field…
Continue reading →Track Your Time with the Updated Timing App (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Timing, the time tracker that automatically tracks your time for you. Timing has just received a significant update for Big Sur, and the new design is beautiful and modern. It fits right in with Big Sur. They’ve also updated…
Continue reading →Hazel 5 and the Next Hazel Field Guide
With the release of Big Sur, Paul Kim released a brand new version of Hazel. Version 5 adds several new features. Just a few of them include: Support for macOS Big Sur. A standalone app form factor instead of a preference pane. A pile…
Continue reading →Being Thankful on Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Growing up, I thought of Thanksgiving as a way to get out of school for a few days and eat copious amounts of turkey, but as I get older, the thankfulness bit has taken the front row seat. A few years…
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