This month, Stephen considers what’s next for Apple silicon Macs while John shares year-end thoughts on the pursuit of productivity and a story about what he’d like to see in 2021 from the Music app and Apple Music service....
WinterFest 2020: The Winter Festival Of Artisanal Software [Sponsor]
The 2020 Artisanal Software Festival is a fantastic collection of carefully-crafted apps for writing, research, thinking, and more at terrific prices. As in past years, software artisans from around the globe come together to offer fair discounts direct to you from the workshop door.
The 18 apps and book span a wide spectrum that will assist you with everyday knowledge work. There are apps to plan your next big project, conduct research, organize your research, edit images, manage email, write, and more:
- Tinderbox – Visualize and organize ideas and plans
- Scrivener for macOS – Your complete writing studio
- Panorama X – Collect, organize, and understand your data
- Mellel – A real word processor
- DEVONthink 3 – Manage documents the smart way
- BBEdit 13 – Power tool for text
- TextExpander – Recall your best words. Instantly, repeatedly
- Bookends – The reference manager you’ve been looking for
- PDFpen – Powerful PDF editing
- HoudahGeo – Photo geotagging
- Nisus Writer Pro – The powerful word processor for the Mac
- Tembo – Friendly file search assistant
- DEVONagent Pro – Your smart (re)search assistant
- Aeon Timeline 2 – The timeline tool for creative thinking
- ImageFramer – Add creative borders and frame to photos
- Trickster – Your recently used files, at your fingertips
- Yojimbo – Your effortless, reliable information organizer for macOS
- The Tinderbox Way – Definitive eBook on artisanal software
No gimmicks, no bundles, no gotchas – just saving of hundreds of dollars on these fine tools for a limited time. Visit the WinterFest website now for links to amazing deals each of these fantastic apps and to learn more or use the coupon code WINTERFEST2020 at checkout.
Our thanks to WinterFest 2020 for its support of MacStories this week.
HealthView: Your Go-To Apple Health Dashboard App [Sponsor]
HealthView is a beautifully-designed iPhone and Apple Watch app that brings the health data those devices collect together in a highly-customizable, unified dashboard.
The iPhone and Apple Watch are capable of collecting lots of health data but making sense of it all and accessing it can be frustrating. Instead of poking around in the many sections of the Health app, give HealthView a try. The app provides a clean, concise view into your health data on both the iPhone and Apple Watch.
As good as HealthView looks, though, the app’s utility runs much deeper. HealthView is highly customizable, allowing you to tailor its dashboard to your specific needs and interests. You can set goals and track your progress, making it easier than ever to reach those goals. You can also view daily, weekly, monthly, and annual totals for metrics like steps, hydration, workout minutes, distance, mindful minutes, weight, heart rate, and a lot more.
If you want more detail, just tap into a category to focus on a single metric that reports all your stats alongside graphs that display the data over time. HealthView also offers a wealth of beautiful widgets, so you can get your most important stats from a quick glance at your iPhone’s Home Screen. No matter the your goals, HealthView can be customized to suit your needs.
So, download HealthView today to see why so many users rely on it for tracking their health and fitness.
Our thanks to HealthView for supporting MacStories this week.
Interesting Links
Apple designer Alan Dye spoke to Australian Financial Review in an interview covering topics including how design helps bring hardware and software together in products like the Apple Watch. (Link) Google Stadia, the company’s videogame streaming service, began beta testing a progressive web app version of the service that works on iOS using Safari. (Link)...
Interview: Balint Orosz
Twitter: @balintorosz. Founder and CEO of Craft. What led you to build Craft? At my last job, I transitioned from and Individual Contributor to a Leadership Role – this meant two specific things for me personally: I had teams across 5 countries and traveled a lot – meaning lots of time spent in airports and...
Happy Holidays!
We wanted to remind you that the MacStories Team is taking a couple of weeks off to unwind during the holidays. We’ll be back with a special New Year’s themed issue on January 8th, 2021, which we think you’ll enjoy. AppStories is taking a short break too but will be back on January 11th with...
In This Issue
Wonder, a collection of Home Screen customization apps and utilities, Federico’s Timery Home Screen setup, an interview with Craft Founder and CEO Balint Orosz,plus the usual Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of MacStories podcasts....
Previously, On MacStories
Level Touch: A HomeKit-Enabled Smart Lock That Everyone in Your Household Can Appreciate MacStories Unwind: AirPods Max, Fitness+, Two New Shortcuts, and a HomeKit Lock Review MacStories Selects 2020: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 14.3 with Apple ProRAW, App Clip Codes, Fitness+ Support, and Direct App Launches from...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John rethink task management surveying the modern to-do app landscape and discussing their current setups. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John recap the 2020 MacStories Selects Awards, Federico’s update to his WallCreator shortcut, the release of iOS and iPadOS 14.3, Fitness+, Headland, and ProRAW, plus...