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Federico shares a tip about moving tasks from Reminders to Todoist, Jonathan uses Shortcuts for distraction-free app search, and John has thoughts about the OpenAI’s acquisition of Sky, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, and a recap of MacStories articles and this week’s episodes of MacStories...
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This Week on MacStories Podcasts
This week on MacStories podcasts: AppStories This week, with rumors of more products in the pipeline, Federico and John share what they want most from Apple before the end of the year. On AppStories+, Federico experiments with lightning fast inference and iteration using Cerebras for scripting. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro Spotify...
In This Issue
John reflects on the M5 chip and Vision Pro updates from earlier this week and shares a tip about Claude Skills and Jonathan takes the crossbody strap plunge, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, and a recap of MacStories articles and this week’s episodes of MacStories...
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A MacStories Update
MacStories is in the midst of big changes that, so far, have been almost completely invisible to readers. So today, we want to catch everyone up on where things stand and explain what we’ve been doing. What prompted this note is the fact that earlier this week, we identified an issue that prevents the MacStories...