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The MacStories Holiday Gift Guide for the Apple Nerd in Your Life

With Black Friday sales in full swing and the holidays around the corner, we here at MacStories thought we’d each share gift ideas for the Apple nerd in your life. Some of these items are currently on sale, so be sure to get your shopping started and check them out soon.

Federico

UGREEN 300W 48,000mAh Battery

I love this big, chunky battery with a handle.

As I recently mentioned on Unwind and NPC, I’ve been really into the idea of gadgets that are “portable, but for the home” this year. These are accessories that are portable in the sense that they can be moved around, but you wouldn’t commute or travel with them. In this case, I was looking for a powerful battery I could place on my living room table to charge multiple devices at once, such as Silvia’s MacBook Pro and my iPad Pro, or my Legion Go and iPhone. The internal capacity of this battery ensures it can stay on for hours when charging a single device like a Steam Deck, too.

The battery comes with a front-facing display with details about its charge and in/out wattages, and it even offers an LED light on the side for illuminating your environment. Plus, if you have a 140W USB-C charger, filling it up completely doesn’t take too long. This has to be one of my favorite tech purchases this year, and I can’t recommend it enough.

UGREEN Nexode Pro 100W Charger

Speaking of UGREEN, I also like their latest 100W GaN charger. Part of the company’s Nexode line, this is a compact USB-C wall charger that can output up to 100W via its first USB-C port when used by itself. This one is actually bag- and travel-friendly, and it’s become my new default for fast-charging the iPhone and iPad Pro.

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Capacities: A Novel Approach to Note-Taking [Sponsor]

Having a calm and personal space in which to make sense of the world is crucial in the age of information overload. You must be able to capture what’s important to you and have a distraction-free place to process it. Capacities is a note-taking app that wants to be just that. 

A novel approach

Moving away from files and folders, Capacities groups notes by their type and facilitates connections with easy linking between notes. All of this is centered around a calendar, which is your anchor to lay out all your note-taking on a timeline. It acts like your inbox and starting point, giving you a simple go-to place when processing what you have captured.

Who uses Capacities?

Knowledge workers, CEOs of small and large company and professionals from various industries alike enjoy Capacities’ refreshing approach to organizing their thoughts and ideas.

Great media support

Capacities goes beyond just text: media such as your images, PDFs, audio recordings or bookmarks become part of your notes.

Cross-platform, seamless sync, powerful features

This experience is available cross platform, with great offline support and seamless sync behind the scenes on servers safely hosted in Europe. Capacities has pledged that its core will be free forever, with a simple one-click export functionality for all your content, but there is also a paid plan that unlocks extra features like an AI Assistant, powerful integrations and more.

Join a community of thousands of happy users

Thousands of happy users find in Capacities an intuitive tool where their minds feel at home. It’s a quiet place for you, amongst a very busy world.

Visit Capcities.io today to learn more and give Capacities a try.

Our thanks to Capacities for sponsoring MacStories this week.