Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: In the Automation Academy channel, I shared a simple technique to run actions in a shortcut only if the current time is between two specific moments of the day. This is the kind of approach you can reuse in many different automations. Fran shared...
New Apps We Are Trying or Revisiting (Part 2)
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AppStories Episode 259 - New Apps We Are Trying or Revisiting (Part 2)
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This week, Federico and John conclude their tour of new apps they are trying for the first time or revisiting.
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- Wealthfront – Invest for the long term on your terms. Get your first $5,000 managed for free.
- Instabug – Ship quality apps with real-time contextual insights
Links and Show Notes
New Apps We’re Trying or Revisiting
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A Wordle Super Share Shortcut, Bypassing Shortcuts’ Permission Prompts, and a Technique for Overwriting Files with Quick Action Shortcuts
It was a busy week on the Club MacStories+ Discord, and I’ve tried my best to collect highlights from the community below. There isn’t a Discord URL scheme to reopen these links in the Discord app directly; my preferred approach for these is to view them as separate tabs in Safari for iPad or Mac....
Automation Academy: Creating a Podcast RSS Feed for Your Matter Queue in Shortcuts with MatterPod
Last week on MacStories and MacStories Weekly, I explained how I leveraged the Matter integration with Obsidian to interact with the (so far not officially announced) Matter API using Shortcuts. For those who missed it, you can read my original story here, but the gist of it is: Matter has an incredible API that exposes...
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Visualizing the Currently Playing Song with Picture in Picture Instead of Control Center
One of my favorite companion utilities for Apple Music I’ve discovered lately isn’t a new third-party client (I still love and use Marvis) or a new smart home speaker (we’re still rocking the original HomePod in our kitchen and it’s great): it’s Picture in Picture for iPhone and iPad. Let me explain. A few months...
Starting the New Year with New Shortcuts, Workflows, Apps, and More
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.
This episode is sponsored by:
- Wix – Create a website you’re proud of.
- Instabug – Ship Quality Apps with Real-Time Contextual Insights
Links and Show Notes
The MacStories Starter Pack
- MacStories Starter Pack: Taking Apple Music Discovery into Your Own Hands
- MacStories Starter Pack: The Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1300 Is Perfect for Anyone Whose Paperless Workflow Still Starts with Paper
- MacStories Starter Pack: Reverse-Engineering the Matter API and My ‘Save to Matter’ Shortcut
- MacStories Starter Pack: Customizing Your Workflows with Deep Links
- MacStories Starter Pack: Introducing Obsidian Shortcut Launcher, A Free Plugin to Trigger Shortcuts from Obsidian
- MacStories Starter Pack: Getting a Handle on Links By Treating Them Like Email
- MacStories Starter Pack: Frame Nintendo Switch Screenshots with SwitchFrame
- MacStories Starter Pack: Why I Abandoned the Search for the Perfect Email App and Am Making Do With a Hybrid Approach
- MacStories Starter Pack: Clean Up URLs and Remove Tracking Parameters with URL Cleaner
Also mentioned:
- Tracker Zapper by Robb Knight
- Ruminate podcast
- Robb Knight’s website
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New Apps We Are Trying or Revisiting
AppStories Episode 257 - New Apps We Are Trying or Revisiting
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This week, Federico and John share a collection of apps they are trying for the first time or revisiting, including email apps, a new Mac launcher, an Apple Music utility, a podcast player, and a read-it-later app.
This episode is sponsored by:
- RevenueCat – Subscription management built for mobile apps.
- Instabug – Ship Quality Apps with Real-Time Contextual Insights
- Wix – Create a website you’re proud of.
Links and Show Notes
Apps We’re Trying and Revisiting
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Dataview Tricks, Saving Documents to Matter, and a Discussion About App Subscriptions
It was a busy week on the Club MacStories+ Discord, and I’ve tried my best to collect highlights from the community below. There isn’t a Discord URL scheme to reopen these links in the Discord app directly; my preferred approach for these is to view them as separate tabs in Safari for iPad or Mac....
Obsidian In-Depth: More Third-Party Plugins (Part 4)
AppStories Episode 256 - Obsidian In-Depth: More Third-Party Plugins (Part 4)
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Federico and John continue their coverage of third-party Obsidian plugins and how they use them to customize the app’s functionality.
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AppStories+ Pre-Show
- Apple is rebuilding Apple Music as a full native app with macOS 12.2 beta
- Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
- Music Part 2: Music Discovery, Playback, and Utility Apps
- Siri No Longer Able to Rate Apple Music Songs on Request in iOS 15 and Later
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More Third-Party Obsidian Plugins
- Discovering and Installing Obsidian Plugins
- Obsidian Roundup
- Obsidian’s Discord community and forums
- Obsidian42 - BRAT beta plugin installer
- [Plugin Changelogs plugin](https://github.com/phibr0/obsidian-plugin-changelogs
- Requires Hotkey Helper plugin
- Obsidian support documentation on community plugins
- More Third Party Plugins (all available as community plugins and on GitHub using the links below)
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