Federico Viticci

906 posts on MacStories since April 2009

Federico is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, where he writes about Apple with a focus on apps, developers, iPad, and iOS productivity. He founded MacStories in April 2009 and has been writing about Apple since. Federico is also the co-host of AppStories, a weekly podcast exploring the world of apps, Unwind, a fun exploration of media and more, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about portable gaming and the handheld revolution.

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Workflows Revisited: Task Management

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AppStories Episode 199 - Workflows Revisited: Task Management

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This week Federico takes listeners along on his recent tour of modern task managers, and he and John discuss the app they have settled on to keep track of their projects and to-dos.

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The 2020 MacStories Selects Awards

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AppStories Episode 198 - The 2020 MacStories Selects Awards

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This week, Federico and John reveal and discuss the 2020 MacStories Selects Award winners and runners-up.

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App Debuts

[[federico]] NotePlan 3 The latest version of NotePlan, which is described as a “calendar-driven note-taking app” is a major update that has brought NotePlan into the world of Zettelkasten with support for automatic backlinks, plus the ability to organize your notes in folders and sub-folders and access notes as Markdown files in Finder, which makes...


Workflows Revisited: Note-Taking

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AppStories Episode 197 - Workflows Revisited: Note-Taking

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This week, Federico and John continue their mini-series focused on breaking down and rethinking the core workflows behind MacStories by tackling note-taking and their adoption of Craft for personal and collaborative notes.

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Creating a URL Scheme Launcher for the Mac Menu Bar

[[federico]] I’ve been doing a lot of admin-related work lately to plan the next year of MacStories, Club MacStories, and AppStories (spoiler: we have huge things in store for 2021) and, for this reason, I’ve been spending more time than usual on my Mac mini between chatting with the team on Skype and Slack and...


Workflows Revisited: Email

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AppStories Episode 196 - Workflows Revisited: Email

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This week Federico and John kick off a new mini-series focused on breaking down and rethinking the core workflows behind MacStories. In this first installment, we revisit how the MacStories team uses email, a long-standing workflow that has changed very little since the site was founded, and why we chose to move to HEY by Basecamp.

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Reading DRM-Free EPUBs in MarginNote for iPad

[[federico]] As I recently shared on an episode of MacStories Unwind with John, I’ve been (slowly) reading Carl Sagan’s excellent Cosmos and highlighting interesting passages and quotes from the book. I’ve always liked to highlight, store, and try to remember what I read in books as I want to make sure there’s value to be...


App Store Changes and Apple’s Evolving Relationship with Developers

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AppStories Episode 195 - App Store Changes and Apple’s Evolving Relationship with Developers

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This week Federico and John break down the App Store Small Business Program, other App Store and developer changes announced in 2020, and consider what else Apple could do to make the App Store a better place for developers.

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