Today Apple announced a September 10 event where we’ll find out, at least, about new iPhones. That’s all exciting, but even more important was the invite image. I really miss that delightful rainbow apple that I first fell in love with on the Apple…
Continue reading →Stop Waiting and Fix Your Email Today with SaneBox (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky sponsor is sponsored by SaneBox, the email tool that everybody can (and should) use. You may have heard about some of the innovative new email features like inbox auto-sorting, deferred email, and reply tracking. The trouble is that early implementations of…
Continue reading →Sweet Setup’s GoodNotes Course
If you’ve got an iPad and want to get better at using the GoodNotes application, the Sweet Setup has a new course just for you produced, largely, by my pal Mike Schmitz. The course goes soup to nuts on GoodNotes. My favorite parts are…
Continue reading →Recovery Day
One of the oldest (and best) pieces of productivity advice is to always plan on a recovery day after a trip. It is such an obvious idea that I hesitate to even post about it. Nevertheless, it is advice that I seldom followed ……
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 497: Spotlight, Alfred, and LaunchBar
macOS’s Spotlight feature has made serious strides in recent years, but many power users still turn to Alfred and LaunchBar for app launching, file searching, and executing workflows. Join us for this week’s episode of Mac Power Users to listen to Stephen and I…
Listen & read notes →Get Some Automation with Text Expander (Sponsor)
Often people ask me how to get started with some simple automation to make their lives easier. The answer to that question is this week’s sponsor, TextExpander. Copy and paste is an inefficient way to keep track of the things you type again and…
Continue reading →Focused 80: The Power of “No”
This week on Focused, Mike and I take on the challenges (and rewards) that come with saying “no.” For those who didn’t catch it, at the beginning of the year the Free Agents podcast transitioned to the new format to talk about how to…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 496: Keyboard Hacking with Brett Terpstra
Brett Terpstra joins us on the latest episode of Mac Power Users to talk about his keyboard hacks, planning workflows, some of his favorite apps, and the looming arrival of his new app, nvUltra. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your…
Listen & read notes →Automators 30: Some Favorite Automations
The latest episode of Automators is now available for download. In it, Rose and I share some of our most beloved recently created automations. Rosemary has an automation to help to deal with her garbage email address, and I have an email-related automation dealing…
Listen & read notes →Diagramming and Planning with inShort (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by inShort for macOS. inShort is an advanced diagramming and planning tool that lets you specify processes, resources, and how they all fit together. All of this is built around a unique interface that enables you to drill down…
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