On this week’s episode of Free Agents, Mike and I do a year-end audit of our own free agency to figure out where we’ve spent our time and money. We talk about fixing broken systems, when to try something new, and make a big…
Continue reading →Get Beautiful and Powerful Outlines with OmniOutliner (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by OmniOutliner. This app is so much more than a just a beautiful outliner. It’s got automation, distraction-free mode, filters, slide-in sidebars, gorgeous styles, and more. Whenever I have a big client project in the law practice, I outline it…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 460: Casey Liss Returns
Casey Liss returns on this week’s episode of Mac Power Users to update us on his life as a free agent, his new love affair with the iPad, becoming a YouTuber, and more. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Luna Display: The only…
Listen & read notes →“Looking Forward” OmniFocus Perspective
There is a growing thread in the Mac Power Users forums about custom OmniFocus perspectives. Since it’s Sunday, I though I’d share one of my favorite Sunday perspectives. While I don’t use a defer-date management system for my tasks these days, I do use…
Continue reading →New Book: Build Your OmniFocus Workflow
My pal Rosemary Orchard and Ryan Dotson released a new book, Build Your OmniFocus Workflow. I know Rose has put a lot of work into this book and it shows. I particularly like the coverage of advanced uses. It comes in PDF and ePub…
Continue reading →Automators 12: Holiday Automation
The holidays are upon us, and the Automators are ready to automate with episode 12, Holiday Automation. We start with simple things like wallpaper and voice-in-a-can technologies. Next, we get to holiday music. It’s great that you can automate music playback, but I want…
Listen & read notes →Get Control of Your Meetings with Agenda Minder (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Agenda Minder. Agenda Minder is a productivity tool that helps you prepare for meetings and developers meaningful agendas. Meetings are rarely fun but with Agenda Minder at least they can be efficient (and faster!). With Agenda Minder you…
Continue reading →How to Enable Shared Family Storage
You may not have noticed, but last year Apple enabled a new feature that lets family members share a single pool of iCloud storage. I have the 2TB (terabyte) plan. For me and my family, that’s enough for iCloud storage and over a terabyte…
Continue reading →Fujitsu ScanSnap 64-bit Software Update
I have been using the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners for a long time now. Today Fujitsu announced that they have a brand new 64-bit version of their scanner software. This comes as a relief to users that have been getting the 32-bit software warning. I’ve…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 459: My Life Is a Subscription
Subscriptions! It seems the wave of the future, but should we be happy about that? In this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, Katie and I talk about this trend towards subscriptions and the software and services we believe are worth the effort. This…
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