Last week I shared a shortcut that I use to build a weekly note from a template in Obsidian using Shortcut Launcher, the Obsidian plugin that we introduced as part of the MacStories Starter Pack. The shortcut worked on the Mac, but a whitespace issue prevented the regex I used to extract the week number...
MacStories Unwind: Pokémon Legends: Arceus
This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John cover their first joint Unwind pick, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, plus MacStories highlights.
Federico and John’s Joint Pick:
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- More on this week’s pick:
MacStories Rewind
- CARROT 5.5 Debuts Redesigned Weather Maps with Expanded Customization Options
- Preserve and Play the Original Wordle for Decades with WordleForever
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AppStories, Episode 258 – Starting the New Year with New Shortcuts, Workflows, Apps, and More→
This week on AppStories, we look back at the MacStories Starter Pack coverage last week, digging into the themes and details of each of the stories we wrote and the ways you can incorporate everything into your own workflows.
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On AppStories+, a little behind the scenes of the MacStories Starter Pack, along with a detailed discussion of the bug fixes and other changes to Shortcuts in iOS and iPadOS 15.3 and our wishes for the app’s future.
CARROT 5.5 Debuts Redesigned Weather Maps with Expanded Customization Options
CARROT Weather 5.5 is out with a focus on weather maps. The entire maps UI has been redesigned and expanded with the same sort of deep customization options found throughout the rest of the app. It’s an excellent update that’s all about visual design, so get ready for a bunch of screenshots.
An RSS Experiment
I’ve used RSS sync services for years. The one I’ve used most is Inoreader, but I’ve also used Feed Wrangler, Feedly, and Feedbin. Most recently, I’ve been using Inoreader, which offers a long list of features layered on top of traditional RSS for pro subscribers. In addition to using the service to follow around 300...
Starting the New Year with New Shortcuts, Workflows, Apps, and More
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AppStories Episode 258 - Starting the New Year with New Shortcuts, Workflows, Apps, and More
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This week, Federico and John look back at their MacStories Starter Pack coverage last week, digging into the themes and details of each of the stories they wrote and the ways you can incorporate everything into your own workflows.
Interesting Links
TfTHacker has an excellent walkthrough on creating an Obsidian widget using Simon Støvring’s app Scriptable. (Link) When you hit a wall on macOS with Shortcuts, AppleScript and the Terminal are often the way to solve the problem, as Jason Snell explained on Six Colors this week. (Link) Joe Danger is a classic iOS game...
Take Control of Your Matter Queue with MatterBot
As part of the Starter Pack event yesterday on MacStories, I shared the backstory of my experiments with the so far still-unannounced Matter API. Matter, the relatively young read-later service we’ve mentioned a few times on Club MacStories and AppStories, has been working on an API behind the scenes that will allow clients to...
App Debuts
Tweetbot Following a 6.8 update that added a new profile view and more icons, Tweetbot received a big 6.9 update that has brought even more icons and a variety of new widgets. You can now keep an eye on tweets that are performing well with a Tweet Stats widget, see how many followers you’ve...