A few weeks ago on Mastodon, I shared a simple feature request: a split-screen mode for iPhone RSS readers that would allow me to scroll headlines in the one half of the screen and preview actual articles in the other.
If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone: back in 2007, Steve Jobs demoed pretty much the same thing for the first version of the Mail app for iPhone OS 1.0. That layout mode never shipped, and probably rightfully so at the time given the limited screen real estate of the first iPhone.
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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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In setting up my new MacBook Air, I remembered that the Mac used to have a way to enable a multitouch-based, non-click drag method that only required you to hold down three fingers on the trackpad. As I discovered, this option still exists, but it’s somewhat hidden in the new System Settings app. To find...
In late 2021, I wrote about my system for appending text and links to a ‘Dashboard’ note in Obsidian and shared a fairly complex shortcut that dealt with appending text at the end of specific sections in that note. Over the past few months – and especially following an experiment with Notion – I realized...
This week, Federico and John dig into third-party 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...
I was recently updating an old shortcut for appending text to a note in Obsidian, and I kept getting an error when trying to fetch the text contents of Markdown files stored in Finder. All my code was correct, and I couldn’t figure out why Shortcuts for Mac was returning the plain text filename of...
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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