Shortcuts for Mac Deep Dive 
This week, Federico and John explain how Shortcuts for Mac differs from other automation tools, cover some of the roadblocks they’ve hit, and discuss how they’re adapting existing shortcuts to the Mac and building all-new ones.
My Obsidian Setup, Part 5: Appending Text and Webpage Links to Specific Sections of My ‘Dashboard’ Note In Part 4 of my Obsidian setup series, I described how I’ve been using a single ‘Dashboard’ note to quickly capture all kinds of links, ideas, and bits of text to process at a later stage – sort of like an inbox for my thoughts. In the story, I also detailed how I configured the...
Rethinking iPad Home Screens and Interesting Details About Twitter Blue It was another busy week on the Club MacStories+ Discord, and here are the highlights from our amazing community of Plus and Premier members. One of our moderators, Burim, shared several examples of how he rethought his iPad Pro Home Screens with widgets, new apps, and shortcuts. David has been looking into how ad-free articles...
For the past two months, I’ve been using Tweetbot as my primary Twitter client again. This started off as an experiment to see whether switching to a third-party client with timeline sync would improve my daily use of Twitter, allowing me to miss fewer tweets and catch up on my timeline (I’ve always been a completionist) at my own pace. The experiment has been successful, but, curiously enough, it also made me appreciate the design and power-user features of Tweetbot all over again.
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Reminders Shortcuts for Automation Academy It’s been a busy couple of weeks on the Club MacStories+ Discord: although we took last week off from publishing MacStories Weekly, the week was made extra special by shortcuts shared by members for the Automation Academy as well as John’s visit to Italy, which resulted in a live Town Hall we recorded in person...
Tracking Current and Upcoming Videogames with GameTrack A few days ago after John left Italy to return home, I realized I needed to take a small break from work since we had just spent five days constantly discussing the future of MacStories, the Club, our podcasts, and much more. (Spoiler: we’re already back to work building the future of MacStories, we have...
Our iPad mini Home Screen Setups
This week, Federico and John go into detail on their iPad mini Home Screen setups, including how they differ from other devices and their use of widgets, Focus modes, and Shortcuts to manage the setups.
Automation Academy: Diving Deeper into Reminders Actions Hello everyone, and welcome to the second lesson of the Automation Academy for Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members. In the first lesson, I covered the new Files actions in iOS and iPadOS 15, explaining how the deeper integration supported by Apple this year enables the creation of more advanced workflows that deal with saving...
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