Apple Arcade and Hide My Email Tips and Member Shortcuts for Meal and Calorie Tracking and Obsidian It was a busy few weeks 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 Obsidian Setup, Part 6: Dataview and Cards for Recent Notes and Rich Links
I’ve spent a good portion of my holiday break studying and playing around with Dataview. If you’re into Obsidian and its plugin ecosystem, you’ve probably heard of Dataview already and seen the examples of people who use this plugin to create all sorts of custom views in the app. But in case you’re not aware...
Obsidian In-Depth: Third-Party Plugins (Part 3)
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AppStories Episode 255 - Obsidian In-Depth: Third-Party Plugins (Part 3)
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This week, Federico and John embark on a tour of the third-party plugins they use to customize Obsidian.
This episode is sponsored by:
- MindNode – MindNode: What’s on Your Mind?
- Wealthfront – Invest for the long term on your terms.
- Wix – Create a website you’re proud of.
Links and Show Notes
Third-Party Plugins
- Plugins Discussed:
- Admonition
- Advanced Mobile Toolbar
- Advanced URI
- Obsidian42 - BRAT
- Buttons
- Calendar
- Customizable Page Header
- Cycle through Panes
- Dictionary
- Export Markdown with Embeds
- Hotkeys for Specific Files, Hotkeys for Templates, Hotkeys++
- Markdown Insert
- Matter
- MetaEdit
- Minimal Theme Settings
- Natural Language Dates
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App Trends for 2022
This week, Federico and John look at the trends they expect to see in 2022, including trends that will continue from 2021 and new trends they think will emerge in the new year.
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Links and Show Notes
Related AppStories Episodes
- Episode 216, Substack, Email, and Data Portability
- Episode 231, The App Customization Trend
- Episode 239, Reminders, Notes, and App Customization
- Episode 251, Obsidian In Depth: The Basics (Part 1)
- Episode 252, Obsidian In Depth: Core Plugins (Part 2)
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App Debuts
[[federico]] Classifier Created by indie developer Roderick Munro, Classifier is a new database app to organize any kind of collection, no matter what you collect. The app comes with a selection of templates with different attributes for different kinds of collections, or you can define your database schema to fit your needs. The app is...
The 2021 MacStories Selects Awards
AppStories Episode 253 - The 2021 MacStories Selects Awards
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This week, Federico and John introduce the fourth annual MacStories Selects award winners and interview the first MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement award winner, James Thomson, the creator of PCalc.
This episode is sponsored by:
- MacStadium – The developer cloud for Mac.
- Memberful – Monetize your passion with membership
Links and Show Notes
The 2021 MacStories Selects Awards
- Other MacStories Selects Awards Coverage
- MacStories Selects 2021: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year
- The MacStories Selects 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award
- Club MacStories+ Live Town Hall, coming to the Club MacStories Discord community on Tuesday, December 14 at 12:30 PM Eastern Time
- The MacStories Selects Award Winners
- Best New App: Noir
- Best New App Runner-Up: Mela
- Mela website
- Mela on the App Store: (iPhone/iPad and Mac)
- The MacStories Review
- Best App Update: Tweetbot 6
- Best App Update Runner-Up: Sofa 3
- Best New Feature: BetterTouchTool’s Shortcuts for Mac Integration
- Best New Feature Runner-Up: Yoink
- Best Watch App: Streaks
- Best Watch App Runner-Up: Drafts
- Best Mac App: Bartender 4
- Best Mac App Runner-Up: Doppler
- Best Design: Mela
- Mela website
- Mela on the App Store: (iPhone/iPad and Mac)
- The MacStories Review
- Best Design Runner-Up: Craft
- Readers’ Choice Award: Craft
- App of The Year: Obsidian
- Obsidian website
- Obsidian mobile on the App Store
- Club MacStories coverage:
- My Obsidian Setup, Part 1: Sync, Core Plugins, Workspaces, and Other Settings
- My Obsidian Setup, Part 2: Themes, Mobile Quick Action and Toolbar, and Third-Party Plugins
- My Obsidian Setup, Part 3: My ‘Dashboard’ Note for Quick Links, Todoist Tasks, Saving Ideas, and Keeping Track of Current Projects
- My Obsidian Setup, Part 4: Templates for Weekly Posts and Custom Mobile Toolbar
- My Obsidian Setup, Part 5: Appending Text and Webpage Links to Specific Sections of My ‘Dashboard’ Note
- AppStories Series:
- App of the Year Runner-Up: Craft
- Lifetime Achievement Award: PCalc
- PCalc website
- PCalc on the App Store (iPhone/iPad and Mac)
- A Selection of MacStories and AppStories Coverage
- PCalc 3.9 Adds Dark Mode and the Latest Shortcuts Features, Expanding the App’s Automation Capabilities
- PCalc 3.8 Adds Support for iOS 12’s Siri Shortcuts, Including Powerful Clipboard Commands
- PCalc’s Delightfully Insane About Screen
- Apple Asks PCalc Developer to Remove iOS 8 Widget
- PCalc for Apple Watch
- AppStories, Episode 38 – An Interview with James Thomson, Creator of PCalc and DragThing
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Obsidian In Depth: Core Plugins (Part 2)
AppStories Episode 252 - Obsidian In Depth: Core Plugins (Part 2)
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This week, Federico and John continue their series on Obsidian with a look at the app’s core plugins, which enable many of the app’s most advanced features.
This episode is sponsored by:
- Concepts – Sketch, Note, Draw
- Memberful – Monetize your passion with membership
- Linode – Simplify your cloud infrastructure
Links and Show Notes
Obsidian’s Core Plugins
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Home Screen: Federico
{.no-bio} The way I use my iPhone on a daily basis has seen some notable shifts in daily habits and functionality since the last time I wrote about my Home Screen in March 2021. Besides changes related to apps such as my favorite task manager and email client, there have been two major factors that...
Two Different Ways of Passing Input to Shortcuts Running on macOS Monterey
For the past week, I’ve been trying to optimize my workflow for quickly capturing notes and ideas in my Dashboard note. As I previously described in my Obsidian setup series on MacStories Weekly, one of the ways I like to reopen my Dashboard note is via a QuickAdd macro, which brings up a list of...