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Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

UpNote: The Best Note-Taking App Across Platforms [Sponsor]

UpNote is an elegant and powerful note-taking app that works across every major platform, making it the perfect solution for your note-taking needs. Designed to make it easy to take notes anywhere and stay focused, UpNote combines a beautiful interface with a fast, fluid workflow for a refined and reliable note-taking experience. The app is also continuously updated to support the latest technologies on all platforms with new and innovative features.

The app works on iOS, Android, the Mac, and Windows, making it an excellent solution for anyone who needs access to their notes across multiple platforms thanks to the app’s fast, reliable sync. UpNote works online and off, too, so you’re always able to capture your thoughts. With colorful themes and many font choices, you can make UpNote your very own, organizing notes into notebooks, which can be nested, adding hashtags to notes, and pinning and bookmarking notes for quick access. It’s a structure that’s supplemented by powerful search and sorting to make navigating even the largest collections of notes a breeze.

UpNote has all of your note-taking needs covered. The app offers a web clipper extension so you can quickly save links and content as you browse and research on the web. There’s a focus mode that eliminates distractions, so you can capture your thoughts quickly and efficiently, too. There’s even a great solution for longer notes: a table of contents feature that makes navigating long notes a breeze. The app can also be locked, which makes it perfect for journaling.

Switching to UpNote is easy, with powerful import functionality that can handle Evernote, Markdown, and other formats. UpNote’s text editor is fully featured, too, with support for rich-text, bi-directional linking, to-do lists, images, attachments, tables, and code blocks. Of course, the app supports Markdown syntax as well. And, when you need to use your notes elsewhere, you can export them as Markdown text, HTML, or PDFs. Combined with its cross-platform support and its stunning design, UpNote is a powerhouse note-taking app like none other.

Now is the perfect time to try UpNote. The app includes subscription and lifetime upgrade options, and for a limited time, MacStories readers can purchase UpNote’s lifetime premium upgrade for 30% off. This is an amazing deal, so don’t delay. Go check out UpNote now and take advantage of this offer.

Our thanks to UpNote for sponsoring MacStories this week.


Interview: Andreas Hegenberg

Twitter:@LLo_ai. Developer ofBetterTouchTool,BetterSnapTool, andBTT Remote. Founder offolivora.AiGmbH. BetterTouchTool can run shortcuts itself and includes a long list of actions for building shortcuts. What are some of the ways you expect users to integrate your app with Shortcuts? That is a great question but also one I cannot really answer. I have been working on BetterTouchTool...


Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts

Next week onAppStories, Federico and John go in-depth with Shortcuts for Mac, covering how they’ve adapted existing shortcuts to the Mac, built new ones, and are experimenting with new approaches incorporating third-party utilities and other tools. This week onMacStories Unwind, Federico and John recap John’s story about using shortcuts with the Elgato Stream...


Previously, On MacStories

Apple Announces Self Service Repair Program That Will Provide Customers With Access to Tools, Parts, and Manuals Getting Started with Shortcuts for Mac and the Stream Deck Tweetbot 6.6 Gets Support for Creating Polls, Limiting Who Can Reply to Tweets...


In This Issue

A tip for simplifying Shortcuts and Alfred integration, Federico’s Obsidian shortcuts for appending text and webpage links to a section of his Dashboard note, details on how John is using the Stream Deck, an interview with BetterTouchTool developer Andreas Hegenberg,plus the usual App Debuts,Links, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStoriespodcast...



CleanMyMac X: Make Sure You Can Trust Your Mac [Sponsor]

In these uncertain times, the only person who we can truly rely on is ourselves, more specifically, you and your computer. But can your Mac help you reach your goals? Is it in good enough shape, fast, and organized?

To be sure, you need CleanMyMac X from MacPaw. It’s the ideal decluttering app for Mac.

CleanMyMac X isn’t just one tool, though. It’s an entire suite of powerful utilities designed to tune up your Mac:

  • It includes 49 tools to find and delete invisible junk.
  • It removes junk that’s slowing your Mac down, so it always runs at its maximum speed.
  • It organizes disk space, too, showing your large hidden folders.
  • It can free up tons of space, so your Mac never runs into storage issues.
  • It’s also the perfect tool to get your Mac ready for macOS Monterey too.
  • Finally, it fights Mac-specific malware and adware.

There are a lot of other Mac cleaning utilities available, but CleanMyMac X stands out with its award-winning, elegant design that makes it a pleasure to use every day. In fact, in 2021, CleanMyMac was honored with the Red Dot Award and the UX Design Award. It’s so enjoyable to use, and you’ll be discovering new ways to optimize your Mac each time you run this app.

Moreover, CleanMyMac X is notarized by Apple, so you can use it with the confidence that it’s safe.

MacPaw has a special deal just for MacStories readers. For the next four weeks, you can purchase the app for 5% off by using this link. So, get started today with CleanMyMac X to make sure you can trust your Mac.

Our thanks to CleanMyMac X from MacPaw for sponsoring MacStories this week.


It’s Time to Vote for The MacStories Selects Readers’ Choice Award

It’s time, once again, for the annual MacStories Selects Awards. Likelast year, we are involving Club members in the process by asking you to pick your favorite app of 2021. However, for this year’s Readers’ Choice Award, we’re instituting a two-step process. Beginning today, all Club members can use this link to nominate their favorite...


In This Issue

We kick off the MacStories Selects Awards with Club member nominations for the Readers’ Choice Award, John shares Mac keyboard tips and a Downloads folder cleanup shortcut for the Mac, Federico explains how he tracks current and upcoming videogames in GameTrack, Brian King, a professional video director and producer, shares his M1 MacBook Pro video...