As you may have seen on Mastodon, I’ve been trying to collect all my GameCube games from when I was a kid in an effort to digitize them and play them on modern hardware. The details of what I’m going to do are still a secret for a surprise I’m planning, but what you should...
Obsidian Setup Check-In
Federico
John
AppStories Episode 380 - Obsidian Setup Check-In
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This week, Federico and John revisit their Obsidian systems, themes, and favorite plugins.
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Links and Show Notes
An Obsidian Check-In
- Our Systems
- John
- A shallow system of numbered folders organized by areas, projects, and related notes
- Johnny Decimal system
- A separate vault for the MacStories GitHub repos
- A shallow system of numbered folders organized by areas, projects, and related notes
- Federico
- Working files stored in the root folder with a series of Archive folders for older material, reference folders, and Templates
- Obsidian Sync across platforms
- Properties for organization and integration with Things
- My Obsidian Template Setup Powered by Shortcuts, Things, and the Actions App
- John
- Our Themes
- Federico
- John
- Minimal and testing Border
- Plugins
- Federico
- MacStories Plugins
- Club MacStories Plugins
- Footnote Shortcut
- Settings Search
- Home Tab
- Templater
- Actions for Obsidian
- Commander
- John
- Federico
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My Obsidian Template Setup Powered by Shortcuts, Things, and the Actions App
On the next episode of AppStories, John and I will cover our Obsidian setups in depth with a conversation about our favorite themes, plugins, and organization systems for notes in the app. Something that I won’t cover in the episode is my workflow for templates, which I’ve implemented over the past few weeks and wanted...
A Classic Mac Pick 2
This week on AppStories, Federico and John return with a classic Pick 2 episode focused on the Mac.
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Links and Show Notes
A Classic Mac Pick 2
- rcmd
- via Link Dump #3
- Keep It
- MacWhisper
- Fork
- Lightning Round of Safari Extensions
- John
- Federico
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Three Mac Tips I Recently Implemented in My MacPad Workflow
As I continue using the MacPad as my main convertible computer and further cementing my belief that I created the best Apple device the company never officially made, I regularly run across new apps and strategies that I want to incorporate in my workflow. This week, I’m going to run down a few things I...
Are We Entering a Post-App World?
AppStories Episode 378 - Are We Entering a Post-App World?
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35:17
35:17
This week, Federico and John explore whether we’re experiencing the beginning of the end of apps and consider what might replace them.
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Are We Entering a Post-App World?
- Trends that may point to a post-app world:
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Getting the Name of the Frontmost App on macOS Using Shortcuts
I was recently debugging one of my old shortcuts that integrated with macOS to get the name of the frontmost app using AppleScript and noticed that, at some point over the past two years, that script had stopped working. I tried fixing the AppleScript myself, but after five minutes spent trying random and outdated code...
ActiveTask: A Shortcut to Turn an Obsidian Document into a Deep-Linked Task in Things
Earlier this week, we released version 1.1 of Obsidian Shortcut Launcher, our free plugin that lets you trigger shortcuts in Apple’s Shortcuts app using Obsidian commands and input data from the document you’re working on. If you missed the announcement, check out the details and examples on MacStories, which I won’t rehash here. In the...
Why the DOJ Claims Apple Is a Monopoly
AppStories Episode 377 - Why the DOJ Claims Apple Is a Monopoly
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This week, Federico and John explain what’s going on with the US Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple that claims the iPhone-maker is monopolizing the smartphone market.
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The US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Complaint Against Apple
- Understanding the DOJ’s Antitrust Complaint Against Apple
- Additional Reading:
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