As someone who reviews apps on a weekly basis and tests betas of upcoming apps every day, I often need to annotate and share screenshots. Whether I have to point out a bug or highlight a feature, image annotations are a common occurrence in my workflow. After years of half-baked utilities, Annotable has managed to...
Member Requests
Question: Is there a way to use Workflow to access the Club MacStories archive and make a PDF from each of the underlying links? I’d love to have all of the Club MacStories content archived as PDFs in Evernote. (Dex Cure, @dexcure) [[federico]] Thanks to Workflow’s Content Graph engine, it’s easy to go from a...
When iCloud Works
[[federico]] I’ve had my fair share of criticism for iCloud since 2011. What I don’t usually write about, however, is my experience with iCloud in the past couple of years – particularly after going all-in with iOS and modern iCloud-based apps. Like millions of others, my iCloud account began as a MobileMe subscription in the...
Tips
[[federico]] There are some nice touches in Gboard, Google’s custom keyboard for the iPhone and iPad. When searching for emoji, for instance, you can try out different expressions or words associated with a particular emoji, and Google will often return results for you. Try with “Nooooo”, “thinking”, or “party” to see what I mean. Also,...
Member Requests
Question: I’d like to use the new x-callback-url support that Annotable has added to replace Workflow’s default image editing function. I have a workflow that uploads images to WordPress, and I want to get kicked into Annotable and, after finishing my annotation, return to Workflow and resume the workflow. (Teddy Svoronos, @tedsvo) [[federico]] The trick,...
Q&A
Question: Over the past year I have had to reset my iPad multiple times due to “Other” taking up an absurd amount of storage (30+ GB). I always set it up as a new device (not restoring from iTunes or iCloud), yet this bug keeps popping back up. Genius Bar appointments always end with them...
Q&A
Question: On the Mac, I can create subfolders in Notes. It does not seem that I can do so on iOS…? (Gerry Riskin, @riskin) [[federico]] Alas, Gerry, that’s still not possible with iOS 9. Sub-folders you create with the Notes app on the Mac will sync over to iOS if you use iCloud, but there’s...
App Debuts
Lexi Federico: Lexi is an iPhone app that uses the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) APIs by Amazon to recreate an Amazon Echo-like experience on iOS. Without having to own an Echo, you can try several Alexa features such as connected home commands, general questions, custom skills, and more. I’ve been using this app alongside my...
Member Requests
Question: One of things I love about OmniFocus is being able to email a task into my inbox from work. I have a locked down work Outlook setup. How can I do the same directly with 2Do, without Toodledo? (Ken, @dillonk) [[federico]] Assuming you mean that you’d like to be able to email messages as...