[[federico]] It all started when I remembered how my friend Myke Hurley always complains about Safari’s tab view on iPhone. As Club MacStories members should know at this point, I’ve spent the past few months exploring a variety of options for read-later apps. I’ve tried so many, and ultimately came away thinking the perfect solution...
Imagining the Perfect Read-It-Later App
Federico
John
AppStories Episode 210 - Imagining the Perfect Read-It-Later App
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This week, Federico and John, who are always on the lookout for new ways to read and process the stories they find, discuss the features and approaches they’d like to see in the ideal read-it-later app.
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- DEVONthink – The one place for storing and working with all your documents, snippets, and bookmarks.
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- Pinstachio – A modern Pinboard app for your iPhone and iPad.
Links and Show Notes
What’s New
- Federico’s Craft Dashboard
- See chapter art to view Federico’s Dashboard or tap here
- John’s Keyboard and Trackpad Wishes
Imagining the Perfect Read-It-Later App
- AppStories Episode 165: Imagining the Perfect Research App
- Read Later versus Bookmarking Apps
- Federico’s Read-It-Later Setup
- Kindle Oasis
- Push to Kindle bookmarklet
- Read-It-Later and Other Apps Mentioned
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Automating Markdown with Taio, Part 2
[[federico]] In this week’s installment of the Shortcuts Corner, I’m continuing to explore the automation possibilities offered by Taio, the all-in-one text editor and clipboard manager that comes with a built-in action editor. Last week, I shared the first actions I created for the app’s editor to speed up various tasks related to Markdown writing...
Can Apps Still Surprise Us?
AppStories Episode 209 - Can Apps Still Surprise Us?
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This week, Federico and John consider why surprising apps seem increasingly rare and share some of the apps that have surprised them the most over the past year.
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- Crypto Pro – Cryptocurrency portfolio tracker app. Get month of Premium with code AS2021.
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Links and Show Notes
What’s New
- Federico digs into Taio, the recently-launched text editor and clipboard manager, and shares three automations with Club MacStories members
- John explains what it’s like to review a feature-rich app like Adobe Fresco
Can Apps Still Surprise Us?
- Connected, Episode 334 – A Wave of Nostalgia Hit Me in the Face on Relay FM
- Apps discussed
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Automating Markdown with Taio, Part 1
[[federico]] For this week’s installment of the Shortcuts Corner, I wanted to try something different and cover an app I’ve been meaning to explore more in depth for a while: Taio. I mentioned Taio a couple times on AppStories and Connected before, and I also covered it here on MacStories Weekly when it launched in...
Reading Newsletters
This week, Federico and John dig into email newsletters and how they manage and read them.
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- Microsoft Lists – A Microsoft 365 app that helps you track information and organize work.
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Links and Show Notes
- What’s New
- Federico revisits his Home Screen setup
- John dives back into Craft shortcuts and begins rethinking his use of Mac automation including Hazel
- Newsletter Management and Reading
- The Booming Email Newsletter Business
- RSS
- Email Clients
- Using The Feed in Hey
- Email folders and rules
- Mailbrew
- Substack Reader
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Home Screen: Federico Viticci
{.no-bio} As MacStories readers may have noticed, for the first time in several years I didn’t publish my annual ‘Must-Have Apps’ list in 2020. I don’t want to get into the details of what happened in my personal life over the past six months (everything’s fine now), so I’m just going to say that 2020...
Shortcuts Wish List, 2021 Edition
AppStories Episode 207 - Shortcuts Wish List, 2021 Edition
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This week, Federico and John take a hard look at Shortcuts, an app they rely on every day, and consider how they would like to see Apple evolve the app this year and beyond.
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- Fitbod – The fitness app for personalized exercise plans. Get 25% off your membership.
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Links and Show Notes
- What’s New
- Federico rethinks his RSS and ‘read later’ workflow as well as his Home Screen setup
- John signs up for a Hey personal account and figures out how to sleep his Mac and eject external drives with the press of a button
- Shortcuts Wish List, 2021 Edition
- Shortcuts Wishes: The App
- Block folding
- Color-coded actions
- Sub-folders
- More colors and icons
- An action browser
- Debugging tools
- Shortcut locking
- Shortcuts Wishes: Actions
- Multitasking actions
- Better Files integration
- Complex UI building tools
- Safari actions
- The ability to run Swift and JavaScript
- Apple Music service actions
- Simplified Web API integration
- Shortcuts Wishes: Automations
- Deeper HomeKit support
- Apple TV integration with home automations
- Personal automations that can run at set intervals
- App-based triggers
- Proximity and presence triggers
- Shortcuts Wishes: Everything Else
- Widgets
- Trigger shortcuts with inputs via Siri
- Run Apple Watch shortcut complications on the Watch face
- Global hotkeys
- Shortcuts Wishes: The App
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What Should the iPad Steal from the Mac?
AppStories Episode 206 - What Should the iPad Steal from the Mac?
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This week, Federico and John flip last week’s topic around and consider the hardware and software features that the iPad should steal from the Mac.
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- DEVONthink – The one place for storing and working with all your documents, snippets, and bookmarks
Links and Show Notes
- What’s New
- Federico on finding the right mix of apps, widgets, and shortcuts on his Home Screens and testing Taio
- John on pushing the boundaries of Shortcuts’ personal and home automations
- Features We’d Like the iPad to Steal from the Mac
- Time Machine-style backups
- System-level enhancements
- Improved external display support
- Deeper System-Level Shortcuts actions
- Expanded Files support
- Expanded automation triggers
- Control Center
- Improved image file handling
- Gatekeeper and app side-loading
- File sorting options and Music uploading