Today, Marcos Tanaka released Play, an iPhone, iPad, and Mac app for saving links to YouTube videos for later. The app doesn’t save the videos themselves. Instead, it saves their URLs, along with metadata, making it easy to organize, sort, filter, and rediscover videos that might otherwise fall by the wayside.
Play is an excellent example of how purpose-built apps often outshine more general solutions. There are many ways to save a YouTube video for later, from a bare URL pasted in a text file to a bookmarking or read later app. YouTube has its own solution, too, with its Watch Later playlist. Each solution I’ve tried in the past works to a degree, but by focusing solely on the experience of saving YouTube links for watching later, Play outshines them all.
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This week, Federico and John conclude their tour of new apps they are trying for the first time or revisiting.
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Any Mac keyboard shortcut that someone hasn’t heard of before may seem obscure to them, but some keyboard shortcuts circulate far more in user circles than others. Recently, I went looking for those elusive, useful keyboard shortcuts. That’s not something I would necessarily have done in the past, because I can only recall so many...
Minimal Theme, my favorite Obsidian theme, has received a major 5.0 update that has brought several new color options and the ability to create your own color scheme. (Link) Screen Times contributor (and Club member) Jonathan Reed interviewed Chris Miller and Phil Lord about their new Apple TV+ series, The Afterparty, which Reed also...
Caset Nearly seven years into its existence, Apple Music still lacks a collaborative playlist feature. Caset, a new iPhone app by indie developer Srihari Srinivasan, aims to fill this gap with the ability to create shared mixtapes with friends and family. Caset lets you create shared lists of songs that you can share with...
Last week I shared a shortcut that I use to build a weekly note from a template in Obsidian using Shortcut Launcher, the Obsidian plugin that we introduced as part of the MacStories Starter Pack. The shortcut worked on the Mac, but a whitespace issue prevented the regex I used to extract the week number...
This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John cover their first joint Unwind pick, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, plus MacStories highlights.
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This week on AppStories, we look back at the MacStories Starter Pack coverage last week, digging into the themes and details of each of the stories we wrote and the ways you can incorporate everything into your own workflows.
On AppStories+, a little behind the scenes of the MacStories Starter Pack, along with a detailed discussion of the bug fixes and other changes to Shortcuts in iOS and iPadOS 15.3 and our wishes for the app’s future.
CARROT Weather 5.5 is out with a focus on weather maps. The entire maps UI has been redesigned and expanded with the same sort of deep customization options found throughout the rest of the app. It’s an excellent update that’s all about visual design, so get ready for a bunch of screenshots.
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