For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been playing around with (and thoroughly enjoying) BetterTouchTool’s latest major feature: the notch bar. This feature is currently available as an optional alpha update in BetterTouchTool, and it’s still rough around the edges, so don’t consider this short post a full review of it; I’m sure we will revisit this functionality more in depth over the course of 2022. However, since I believe the notch bar is one of the most exciting developments in the Shortcuts for Mac ecosystem lately, and since I’m having so much fun with it, I figured it’d be worth an early hands-on preview before the end of the year.
App Trends for 2022
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An Obsidian Template Setup and Apple Music Playlist Based on MacStories Unwind Picks
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....
App Debuts
Classifier Created by indie developer Roderick Munro, Classifier is a new database app to organize any kind of collection, no matter what you collect. The app comes with a selection of templates with different attributes for different kinds of collections, or you can define your database schema to fit your needs. The app is...
My End-of-the-Year Shortcuts Grab Bag
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
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....