Question: With Twitter’s Q4 earnings coming next week, what’s your wish list for Twitter? Can it keep its niche in the future? I don’t think Twitter will crumble tomorrow, but it seems users who like its idea have already joined. (Jung) [[federico]] It’s not easy to come up with a quick answer to this question....

Picky Picky, an alternative music player for iPad, has been updated with iOS 9 and iPad Pro support, plus a way to sort albums by duration. Picky explores a lot of interesting ideas that Apple ignored in their Music app, such as multitasking and a handy floating player. Pixaki Pixaki is a powerful graphics editor...

Question: The default Notes app has become my go-to app for most generic writing on iOS. I like the general flexibility of the app, and the RTF features are great. My problem is that I like to archive certain things as ePub files that I store in iBooks. Notes does not export directly to iBooks,...

After several years of struggling to find a way to collaborate with MacStories writers on Markdown text files for article drafts, I recently realized that a solid solution has been around for a long time – private repositories on GitHub. While primarily designed for programmers, GitHub’s system based on branches, commits, and diffs can work...

Question: I have downloaded loads of apps over time. In the past I would religiously go into iTunes on my Mac and update them, and delete any that I had removed it from my device. Inevitably however, I lost track and ended up with loads of apps that I had forgotten to delete. The other...

Question: With iBooks being compatible with iCloud Drive from iOS 9.3 onwards, I was wondering: is there an easy way to batch import ePub files stored in Dropbox? I tried Workflow: (get Dropbox file) - (repeat for each) - (add to iBooks), but Dropbox only allows one at a time, and iBooks doesn’t automatically return...

Question: I want to take this existing workflow that tweets either a selected song or album, go to Blink to get an affiliate link, return to workflow and complete the tweet. Here’s the regular workflow, and here’s my attempt. I have a workflow as an extension from Blink, but if I think about sharing what...

[[federico]] Working Copy Working Copy, a powerful Git client by Anders Borum, has been updated this week with syntax highlighting for over 30 languages (including Markdown), new search capabilities, and a way to process selected text with action extensions and have the output replace the selection in the editor (which works well with Workflow). Default...

Question: I’d like a Workflow that generates a random set of dates. I have a short workflow adapted from one I found on Reddit, but it only generates random, non-repeating numbers. What’s the best way to associate the numbers for dates? Or is there a better way to generate random dates? I’d like 120 dates...