We’re approaching the end of the year and this is the final issue of MacStories Weekly for 2021 (can you believe we never took almost no time off from the newsletter this year?), and I have to be honest with you all: I’ve been incredibly inspired by Shortcuts lately, and I’ve built too many interesting...
The 2021 MacStories Selects Awards
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AppStories Episode 253 - The 2021 MacStories Selects Awards
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This week, Federico and John introduce the fourth annual MacStories Selects award winners and interview the first MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement award winner, James Thomson, the creator of PCalc.
Syncing Playlists Between Apple Music and TIDAL
In Issue 300 of MacStories Weekly, I showed off my music Home Screen and explained why I started using TIDAL instead of Qobuz as my supplemental music streaming service in addition to Apple Music. (Long story short: Apple Music doesn’t have Roon integration and I really love using Roon with my DAC; plus, I appreciate...
Shortcuts, Typora Tips, Wallpapers, and More
It was a busy week on the Club MacStories+ Discord, and I’ve tried my best to collect highlights from the community below. There isn’t a Discord URL scheme to reopen these links in the Discord app directly; my preferred approach for these is to view them as separate tabs in Safari for iPad or Mac....
Obsidian In Depth: Core Plugins (Part 2)
Scripting eBay for Finding Vinyl Records, A Look Back at iOS 6, a Wallpaper, and a CleanShot-like Shortcut
It was a busy week on the Club MacStories+ Discord, and I’ve tried my best to collect highlights from the community below. There isn’t a Discord URL scheme to reopen these links in the Discord app directly; my preferred approach for these is to view them as separate tabs in Safari for iPad or Mac....
Home Screen: Federico
The way I use my iPhone on a daily basis has seen some notable shifts in daily habits and functionality since the last time I wrote about my Home Screen in March 2021. Besides changes related to apps such as my favorite task manager and email client, there have been two major factors that...
Two Different Ways of Passing Input to Shortcuts Running on macOS Monterey
For the past week, I’ve been trying to optimize my workflow for quickly capturing notes and ideas in my Dashboard note. As I previously described in my Obsidian setup series on MacStories Weekly, one of the ways I like to reopen my Dashboard note is via a QuickAdd macro, which brings up a list of...
Obsidian In Depth: The Basics (Part 1)
AppStories Episode 251 - Obsidian In Depth: The Basics (Part 1)
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This week, Federico and John introduce part one of a new series on Obsidian, explaining what the app is and does, why it’s important, the compromises that come along with using a non-native app, and how they are using it.