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Kosmik: For All Mindkind [Sponsor]

Kosmik is a dashboard for your creativity. Built for designers, researchers, and writers, Kosmik’s infinite canvas for the iPad and Mac lets you bring together notes, your writing, images, websites, PDFs, and more on a single canvas called a Universe, so you can stop switching between apps and focus on what you’re creating.

Everything in a Kosmik Universe is a card, and cards from one canvas can be incorporated into another, making the first canvas app with the sort of transclusion found in note-taking apps like Roam Research and Obsidian. It’s a powerful yet simple architecture that reduces friction, so you can focus on your work.

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Our thanks to Kosmik for sponsoring MacStories this week.


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Club MacStories+ Town Halls: Celebrating the First Anniversary of Club MacStories+


Club MacStories Town Halls are part of the special live audio events we hold in the Club MacStories+ Discord community. The show is a recorded and lightly edited version of the Town Halls that we produce, so Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members who can’t attend the event live can listen later. To learn more about Club MacStories+ and Club Premier, visit our Club plans page.
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AppStories+ Deeper into the world of apps

AppStories Episode - Club MacStories+ Town Halls: Celebrating the First Anniversary of Club MacStories+

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AppStories+ Deeper into the world of apps

To mark one year since the launch of the Club MacStories expansion, Federico, John, and Alex were joined by Relay FM’s Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett to look back at the past year, hear what Relay FM is doing to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital this year, and share the technology that has had the biggest impact on their lives in the past year.

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In This Issue

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