Detail Duo Detail is a video streaming studio for the Mac and iPhone. Detail Duo is a separate iPhone and iPad app for recording video from the front and back cameras of an iPhone or iPad simultaneously. My son Finn, who is an occasional contributor to MacStories, is part of the development team at Detail...

[[John]] I’m always on the lookout for simple Markdown text editors to supplement my primary writing workflow. Most of my writing takes place in Obsidian, but sometimes I prefer to escape the distraction of my many Obsidian tabs and documents to write something short in a different app. I often use a separate app for...

A recurring theme on AppStories over the years is the tension between ‘do-everything’ apps and single-purpose utilities. Like a fashion trend, the app world swings between these two poles regularly. Recently, the pendulum has swung firmly in the ‘do everything’ direction for some categories of apps, and I think it’s worth trying to understand the...

After six years of working from home, my office setup is about as close to ideal as I’ve ever wanted. I started out in a corner of our basement in Illinois, which was cold for about 8 months of the year, working from a desk I built from a scrap of plywood. I graduated to...

I haven’t had much success with Focus modes. Part of the problem is right in the name: Mode. My life isn’t very modal, so it’s counterproductive to try to organize my life that way. An entire productivity methodology was built around the idea of contexts. However, technology has blurred the lines between traditional contexts like...

{.no-bio} [[public]] Not long ago, I ran across an old screenshot of my Home Screen and realized that it’s changed quite a bit, so I thought I’d share my current setup with Club members. There was a time when apps for getting work done dominated my iPhone’s Home Screen. My train commuting days are over,...