Podcast Rewind: Phone Reviews and Daily Notes

Matt reviews basically every phone of 2025, Chris has Apple silicon Christmas in October, and the whole gang gets creative on their phones.

In the Cozy Zone, the gang discusses everything in their travel bags.

MacStories Unwind

This week, John asks Federico to explain how he uses Daily Notes in Notion, after which they discuss the AI browsers and why they are so disappointing.

Comfort Zone, Episode 72, ‘You Have a Bean on Your Head’ Show Notes

Main Topics

So many phones

M5 iPad Pro

M5 Vision Pro

Other Stuff We Talked About

Niléane’s pics:

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Matt’s pic

Cozy Zone

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MacStories Unwind, ‘Notion Daily Notes and AI Browsers’ Show Notes

Notion Daily Notes

Notion

AI Browsers

OpenAI Atlas

Perplexity Comet

Dia

Deta Surf

Microsoft Edge

Strawberry

Also mentioned:

Helium

Vivaldi

Picks

No picks this week. We’ll have a couple for everyone next week.

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