This week Kourosh Dini released the third edition of his Creating Flow with OmniFocus book. This is, by far, my favorite book on using OmniFocus. Kourosh has been using OmniFocus for years and has some great ideas on how to the most out of…
Continue reading →Let SaneBox Remind you About Missing Email Replies (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by SaneBox. SaneBox is the email utility that we all need. It is loaded with features, like the ability to auto-sort your email as it arrives. Every morning when I wake up, I don’t see 300 emails in my…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 454: MPU+: Did You Just Fall Down?
It’s MPU+ time. Katie shares the end of her MacBook Pro saga and AppleCare Experience, and I talk about playing with my widget screen, moving out of Evernote, and finding more uses for Keyboard Maestro. We also discuss upcoming Apple Events, packing apps, our…
Listen & read notes →My Learn OmniFocus Seminar
I’m doing a live seminar over at Learn OmniFocus this week on October 31 (Halloween!) at 10:00 AM PST. It’s an hour long session and I’ll be walking through some of the ways I use OmniFocus in my daily setup. There is still a…
Continue reading →Too Much Email
Cal Newport linked to an Adobe study that concluded average users check email 5.6 hours per weekday. If you look into the study a bit further, it looks like these numbers are inflated but even cutting them in half, 2.3 hours a day on…
Continue reading →BestPhotos 2.0
I wrote awhile back how how I started using BestPhotos for doing the initial photo sort and purge on on my iPhone. The thing is, it is really easy to take a lot of pictures with your iPhone. Ask me to take a picture…
Continue reading →MacVoices Guesting
I recently joined my pal Chuck Joiner on his MacVoices podcast to talk about my recent field guide releases and the big switch to video. In addition to being a staple of Macintosh podcasting, Chuck is a longtime friend and I had a lot…
Listen & read notes →Accent Colors in macOS Mojave
A surprising number of people wrote in to ask how I made UI elements appear orange in the OmniFocus Field Guide. It wasn’t a bit of clever hacking but instead a cool new feature in macOS Mojave. Watch the short video below to see…
Continue reading →Improve Apple Photos with PowerPhotos (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by PowerPhotos. There is a lot to like about Apple Photos on your Mac, but if you use it for any length of time, you’ll also realize the app is missing a lot of the tools you need to…
Continue reading →Pixelmator Pro and Machine Learning
Last week Pixelmator Pro released a new version, 1.2, including full support for macOS Mojave. As a pro app, Pixelmator Pro has always had a dark mode. So with macOS Mojave, they’ve tweaked the dark appearance and released a new light appearance. That way…
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