A Look at the HomeKit and tvOS Updates Coming Soon 
Wallpaper, Obsidian, Financial Document, Classical Music, and YouTube Shortcuts, Plus Obsidian Screencasts It was another 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...
Automation Academy: Diving Deeper into Shortcuts’ Files Actions for iOS and iPadOS 15 Hello everyone, and welcome to the first monthly lesson of the Automation Academy. As the release of iOS and iPadOS 15 draws near, this month we’re taking a look at a revamped suite of actions in the updated Shortcuts app that will radically change how you can get work done on iPhone and iPad: the...
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Reminders, Notes, and App Customization 
This week, Federico and John examine the growing trend of app customization in the context of Apple’s system apps focusing on Reminders’ Tag Browser and Smart Lists and Notes’ Tag Browser and Smart Folders.
Splitting PDFs and Making Images from Specific Pages I’m in the final stretch of writing and editing my iOS and iPadOS 15 review (I’m writing in the afternoon, and editing at night), and as I was consolidating my notes from recent betas and beginning to mark review tasks as completed, I came across a few shortcuts I built to demonstrate new actions in...
PDFs in Obsidian, Apps We’d Like to Use More, and Splitting Tasks in Todoist 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....
The Many Uses of Quick Note The following story is a preview of the Notes section featured in the Apps chapter of my upcoming iOS and iPadOS 15 review. In the months I’ve spent testing and using iPadOS 15 on my M1 iPad Pro and iPad mini, I’ve come up with some (at least in my opinion) pretty fascinating uses for...
The Complexity of Defining Great Modern Mac Apps
This week, Federico and John explore the many ways Mac apps can be made today and how the frameworks, along with design choices and other factors are redefining the landscape of apps on the Mac and what constitutes a great Mac app.
Using Quick Note for Email and Twitter Templates As I wrote a couple months ago when the first public beta of iPadOS 15 was released, I believe Quick Note is the “sleeper hit” feature on iPad this year. Sure, there are some fascinating updates to multitasking and window management, but I feel like power users will especially appreciate the convenience and power granted...
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