[[federico]] Cooking Guide for Zelda: Breath of the Wild If you’ve been playing too much Zelda on your new Nintendo Switch, you know that the cooking system is one of the slowest aspects of the game. This app features over 120 built-in recipes for quick reference, with detailed ingredient information and tips on how to...

Question: I often want to extract the details of an author’s name and the date from an article in the browser – i.e. like for the article where you published the Ulysses workflow. But, I work more on my MacBook than on my iPad and want to use the same kind of automation on macOS...

Question: Using Evernote, I’m trying to create a log of birds I identify while birdwatching. I’d like to be able to launch a workflow and a) have it automatically list my date and location, b) offer me a text prompt to identify the bird, and c) select a photo (if I have happened to take...

[[federico]] In a timely update released the day after I shared some workflows for working with multiple DEVONthink files in Issue 71 of MacStories Weekly, the Workflow team introduced expanded file actions in version 1.7.2 of the app. I covered the update on the site earlier this week, and I’d like to further elaborate upon...

[[federico]] Among the various shortcomings of iOS compared to the Mac, one that I frequently mention on MacStories and Relay FM is the inability to share multiple files at once with extensions and document providers. Apple’s own iOS apps, such as Mail and iCloud Drive, can’t move multiple documents at once between apps; iOS itself...

[[federico]] Over a year ago, I imported an Amazon Echo from the U.S. and set it up in our apartment (we live in Rome, and the Echo hasn’t officially launched in Italy yet, but the device is perfectly usable – we just had to buy a wall plug adapter). I thought the Echo was going...

Question: I love building workflows and feel very comfortable in using Workflow and integrating it with other iOS apps via URL schemes. To me the next obvious place to grow is via web APIs. I’ve had minimal success with a couple but I was wondering if you could recommend some web API that is to...

Question: Have you guys created a way to store workflows that you no longer use, but don’t want to delete forever? Do you just create a dummy Workflow account to store everything? (Micah Owens) [[federico]] I’ve been archiving workflows I don’t use on a regular basis as files in Dropbox. Besides the ability to share...

[[federico]] Here at MacStories, we use Trello a lot. Editorial management for the Club runs entirely on Trello, where we have a board with separate sections, each filled with cards representing content we need to produce for our newsletters. We have shared boards to handle podcast topics, sponsorships sales, the website’s editorial calendar, and more....