This week, Federico and John introduce part one of a new series on Obsidian, explaining what the app is and does, why it’s important, the compromises that come along with using a non-native app, and how they are using it.
- Linode – Simplify your cloud infrastructure
- Memberful – Monetize your passion with membership
Links and Show Notes
Getting Started with Obsidian
- Obsidian
- Obsidian Discord and Forum
- Federico’s Obsidian Setup Series for Club MacStories
- 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
- Other Club MacStories Obsidian Coverage
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It was a busy week on the Club MacStories+ Discord, and I’ve tried my best to collect highlights from the community below, including a shortcut contributed by a member as part of my most recent Automation Academy lesson on Reminders. We don’t get to see Lawyer John often, but when he appears, he never disappoints....
I was recently editing a Markdown text file synced by the GitHub app for Mac when I noticed that every time I double-clicked the file in Finder, it kept launching Obsidian without actually opening the selected document. I didn’t want to use Obsidian to edit files synced by GitHub to a folder on my Mac;...
This week, Federico and John explain how Shortcuts for Mac differs from other automation tools, cover some of the roadblocks they’ve hit, and discuss how they’re adapting existing shortcuts to the Mac and building all-new ones.
- Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple.
- DEVONthink by DEVONtechnologies – The one place for storing and working with all your documents, snippets, and bookmarks
- Ulysses – The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone Special Offer)
Links and Show Notes
Shortcuts for Mac Deep Dive
- Related Coverage on MacStories and Club MacStories
- Other Links
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In Part 4 of my Obsidian setup series, I described how I’ve been using a single ‘Dashboard’ note to quickly capture all kinds of links, ideas, and bits of text to process at a later stage – sort of like an inbox for my thoughts. In the story, I also detailed how I configured the...
It was another busy week on the Club MacStories+ Discord, and here are the highlights from our amazing community of Plus and Premier members. One of our moderators, Burim, shared several examples of how he rethought his iPad Pro Home Screens with widgets, new apps, and shortcuts. David has been looking into how ad-free articles...
This week, Federico and John dive back into their favorite iOS and iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey tips.
- Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple.
- RevenueCat – Subscription management built for mobile apps
Links and Show Notes
More iPhone, iPad, and Mac Tips
- Drawn in part from the following stories:
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks on the Club MacStories+ Discord: although we took last week off from publishing MacStories Weekly, the week was made extra special by shortcuts shared by members for the Automation Academy as well as John’s visit to Italy, which resulted in a live Town Hall we recorded in person...
This week, Federico and John go into detail on their iPad mini Home Screen setups, including how they differ from other devices and their use of widgets, Focus modes, and Shortcuts to manage the setups.
- Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple.
- RevenueCat – Subscription management built for mobile apps.
Links and Show Notes
Our iPad mini Home Screen Setups
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