This week, Federico and John continue their wish list series with their wishes for iPadOS 17.
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Our iPadOS Wishes
- Clamshell mode
- Separate Stage Manager from Multi-windowing
- Controlling Stage Manager
- Controlling Audio and Video inputs and outputs
- Universal Control
- System wishes
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As part of my rediscovery of macOS since I went all-in with a MacBook Air as my primary machine a month ago, friends and podcast listeners have been kindly helping me out getting back up to speed in terms of cool apps and utilities for Mac. Today, I want to highlight a specific indie app...
This week, Federico and John kick off their annual OS wishes series with a long list of rapid-fire wishes for iOS 17.
- Hit The Island – Funn Media’s innovative, fun, and deceptively simple game for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
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Follow-Up
Our iOS 17 Wishes
- Control Center
- Lock screen widgets
- Home screen widgets
- System features
- Shortcuts
- Music
- Safari
- Phone
- Apple Podcasts
- App Store
- Reminders
- Home
- A Passwords App
- Notes
- Files
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In late 2012, when I was starting to dip my toes into the beautiful world of iOS automation, I shared an elaborate system to save PDFs to Evernote running on a remote Mac mini by leveraging Pythonista, Dropbox, Hazel, and AppleScript to make it all happen with the press of a single button. The details...
This week, Federico explains his return to the Mac, including his hardware setup and the apps he’s using, and John recommends some apps he should try.
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Federico’s Return to the Mac
- Hardware
- Software
- John’s App Emporium Recommendations
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This week, Federico and John dig into third-party apps with excellent shortcuts support.
- Viso – Beautiful minimal image viewer for macOS.
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Automation April Update
Apps with Excellent Shortcuts Support
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Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: Jack Wellborn, the winner of last year’s Automation April Shortcuts Contest who also joined us for a Shortcuts workshop on Discord this week, shared two samples of AppleScript for UI automation to speed up message editing in Slack and Discord. Jack also shared two...
Last week on MacStories, I published S-GPT, an advanced shortcut for ChatGPT that lets you have conversations with OpenAI’s powerful assistant while also leveraging native integrations on Apple platforms. S-GPT supports native functionalities of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS such as the system clipboard, Live Text, Reminders and Calendar, and even playlists in the Music...
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This week, John explains his new link management workflow, combining a series of apps and shortcuts, and Federico shares more about his S-GPT shortcut that integrates ChatGPT with Apple’s OSes.
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Link Management and Integrating ChatGPT with Apple’s OSes
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