Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings along with a look at what’s coming up next:

AV Club Voting Begins

Don’t forget to vote for the latest AV Club pick in the Club MacStories+ Discord. Head to the Announcements channel for the details and to vote for one of the following four choices:

• Horizon Forbidden West
• Elden Ring
• The Afterparty
• Suspicion

We’ll discuss the videogame or show selected as a community with a live Discord Town Hall event that is tentatively set for March 15th. For those unable to join live, we’ll publish the conversation to the Club MacStories Town Hall podcast feed after the event, as we did earlier this month for the Matrix movie series.

AV Club is a monthly event held in the Club MacStories+ Discord community. Club members vote on a movie, TV show, videogame, book, or music to enjoy as a group. It’s like a book club, but for all kinds of media. Our Discord community is one of the many perks for Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members.

MacStories Weekly: Issue 309

• Federico shared a tip on how to prevent accidental Lock Screen activations.
• John shared a collection of alternative read-later actions.
• John also explained why simple shortcut utilities are so powerful on the Mac, using a shortcut for adding date stamps to text files system-wide on the Mac as an example.
• An all-new episode of MacStories Unplugged in which Federico and John look forward to the end of winter, Federico on his trips to the local dog park, plus John gets some Pokémon Legends: Arceus tips and is upset about Nintendo closing its eShop for 3DS and Wii U.
• Plus:
  • App Debuts
  • Highlights from the Club MacStories+ Discord
  • Interesting links from around the web
  • A sneak peek at what’s next on MacStories’ podcasts
  • and more

New Club MacStories+ and Club Premier Discount

Typefully is a beautifully designed Twitter utility for writing, scheduling, and publishing tweets and threads from the makers of Mailbrew.

Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members can get 30% off on their first year’s subscription to Typefully by visiting the Club Discounts page.

Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created guide to the past week’s happenings along with a look at what’s coming up next:

AV Club Town Hall, The Matrix Movies

AV Club is a monthly event held in the Club MacStories+ Discord community. Club members vote on a movie, TV show, videogame, book, or music to enjoy as a group. It’s like a book club, but for all kinds of media.

This month, we rewatched the original Matrix movie trilogy and watched The Matrix Resurrections, which was released late last year. Then, on Wednesday, we held a live audio AV Club Town Hall on Discord hosted by Federico, John, and Alex, who were joined by two Club members to discuss the films and take questions from members who listened live.

If you’re a Club MacStories+ or Club Premier and missed the lively discussion, it’s available as a Club-only podcast that you can enjoy on the Club website or subscribe to from your the Club Podcasts page.

MacStories Weekly: Issue 308

Replacing an existing shortcut with one that has been modified by injecting code into it.

• Federico shared a proof of concept shortcut that can be used to modify shortcuts by injecting code into them. The shortcut automates the entire process including resigning the modified shortcut in the Terminal, and reimporting it into the Shortcuts app.
• John explained how to schedule and remotely trigger shortcuts on the Mac using built-in system apps.
• In the Club MacStories+ Discord Share Your Setup channel, a member shared an in-depth look at their email workflow and related automations, and in the Off-Topic channel, members shared their favorite sites and restaurants in Rome.
• Plus:
  • App Debuts
  • Highlights from the Club MacStories+ Discord
  • Interesting links from around the web
  • A sneak peek at what’s next on MacStories’ podcasts
  • and more

New Club MacStories+ and Club Premier Discount

Recurrence is a task manager for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac to track the repeating tasks in your life. Perfect for chores, bill payment, and much more. Recurrence puts history at the forefront, allowing you to see when something was last done and accompanying notes.

Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members can try Recurrence for 3 months free by visiting the Club Discounts page.

Up Next

Next week on Club MacStories:

• An all-new episode of MacStories Unplugged, the monthly anything-goes Club podcast that’s a free-form discussion of apps and a behind-the-scenes look at what we’re doing at MacStories.
• A new installment of The Macintosh Desktop Experience, John’s Club MacStories+ and Club Premier column that explores new ways to get more out of your Mac, with a focus on the latest tools and technologies available to Mac users and how they fit in the context of the Mac’s rich history.

Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings along with a look ahead to what’s next:

MacStories Weekly: Issue 307

Parsing shortcuts as JSON.

• Federico shares how to parse shortcuts as XML and JSON, a technique that’s at the heart of how our popular Shortcuts Archive is created.
• John gets into the Oscar season spirit with his nominees for Best Supporting App, a collection of apps that extend Apple system apps.
• Expanding on John’s collection of obscure Mac shortcuts from Issue 306, we share a set of fantastic Safari keyboard shortcuts from one of our Discord moderators.

• We interviewed:
  • Melissa Cash of Pok Pok Playroom
  • David Brittain of Concepts
  • Kriss Smolka of Funn Media, the makers of WaterMinder, HabitMinder, and FitnessView
  • Hidde van der Ploeg of NowPlaying
  • Engin Kurutepe of SolarWatch
  • Ran Flasterstein of Spark Reading

about App Store In-App Events to see how they’re being used and what developers’ experience with them has been.

• Plus:
  • App Debuts
  • Highlights from the Club MacStories+ Discord
  • Interesting links from around the web
  • A sneak peek at what’s next on MacStories’ podcasts
  • and more

Up Next

On Wednesday, February 16th, at 11:00 am Eastern US time, Federico, Alex, and I will be joined by Club members to discuss the Matrix movie series during a live audio Town Hall in our Discord community for Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members as part of the community’s A.V. Club channel.