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Get Apple Mail Into Omnifocus It's 2023 and there is still no Mail share sheet. Yes, Omnifocus has a maildrop service where you can forward an email to a super-secret address and that email will show up as a task in your 🗓️ January 27, 2023 🏷️ Omnifocus🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ Automation Amazon Frown, Amirite? Scharon Harding, on Ars Technica Amazon claims AmazonSmile has donated $449,385,192 to global charities and $400 million to US charities as of 🗓️ January 19, 2023 🔗 Ars Technica 🏷️ Amazon My 2023 Home Screen My setup to kick off 2023 It’s kind of a thing in our circles to share our home screens periodically, and I haven’t done it in a long while. I’m going to try to make a habit 🗓️ January 11, 2023 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone Happy Announcaversary, iPhone 16 Years of iPhone Not much to say about this, but 16 years ago the iPhone was introduced at MacWorld Expo 2007. I was a recent Mac convert at the time after using 🗓️ January 9, 2023 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone Add Meeting Prep and Recap Blocks Using Shortcuts Reclaim your time. I have a lot of Shortcuts. Like HUNDREDS. Sometimes I mention them in passing and forget that I take a lot of the Shortcuts I make for granted, and 🗓️ December 29, 2022 🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ iOS🏷️ Time Blocking🏷️ Calendar Weeknotes 22-52 Week 52 "The last week of the year has been... a week." 🗓️ December 26, 2022 🏷️ Weeknotes Now that I’m back in the office more, I have so many feature requests for Microsoft Outlook. 🗓️ December 22, 2022 🏷️ Micro I’m thinking about how I keep track of the “logging” sorts of things. I’m currently spread all over Obsidian, Notion, Day One, and spreadsheets. I need to consolidate, but no tool does what I need. 🗓️ December 21, 2022 🏷️ Micro I’ve been going into the office a couple days a week for a month now. I’m enjoying the change of scenery and surroundings. I left my Magic Trackpad and AirPods Pro at home today, though.😢 (I bought a refurb trackpad to leave at the office) 🗓️ December 20, 2022 🏷️ Micro Just set up my blog template to handle title-less micro posts. 🗓️ December 19, 2022 🏷️ Micro IFTTT to Mastodon Test These instructions are for Zapier, but I did it with IFTTT. Methods are the same. I was thinking of a way to test this, and figured hey – might as well just put up a link post to the tutorial. 🗓️ December 5, 2022 🔗 lukas.io 🏷️ Automation🏷️ Mastodon🏷️ IFTTT The End of Twitter? Lots of people are jumping off Twitter because of <<reasons>>, but where are they going? Twitter is a shit show right now. Those of us who have been around for a while know that Twitter is on metaphorical life support right now. Elon 🗓️ November 18, 2022 🏷️ Personal 139 Fridays It's been 32 months since I've been to the office. That ends this week! It’s been 139 Fridays since the world shut down on March 13, 2020. I’ll always remember that date because it was a Friday the 13th. Heh. About 83 🗓️ November 15, 2022 🏷️ Personal Mastodon Just like the year of Linux on the desktop, this is the year of a federated social media platform OK, listen… The stuff Elon Musk is doing over at Twitter is bat-shit crazy. He’s trying a hundred things a day, and they’re all failing miserably. I 🗓️ November 14, 2022 🏷️ Social Media🏷️ Twitter🏷️ Mastodon Happy New Year! Starting your year in September may not be for everyone, but it works great for me. Yes, I know it’s only September. But September is when I start my year. No, I’m not on some sort of corporate fiscal calendar. I still celebrate the 🗓️ September 5, 2022 🏷️ Habits🏷️ Health🏷️ Productivity🏷️ Opinion Should Apple Split The iPhone Launch? (no.) I think it's time that Apple split the annual iPhone launch up, and now is a great time to do it. 🗓️ May 2, 2022 🏷️ iPhone🏷️ Rumors Make Back Tap Front and Center Wanna access a menu from anywhere on your phone? Accessibility features have a strange reputation of not being for everyone. We all need to make our devices more accessible in one way or another. 🗓️ October 1, 2021 🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ iOS The Omni Show I was a guest on the Omni Show. You should listen to it. The good folks at the Omni Group were kind enough to talk to me about how I use OmniFocus for work and play. 🗓️ September 27, 2021 🔗 The Omni Group 🏷️ Podcast🏷️ OmniFocus Changes Are A'Comin' (Probably) Epic v. Apple lawsuit is over, and both sides claim victory It's a Friday, so of course some piece of tech news drops. Time for everyone to go crazy on Twitter and speculate in blog posts until the involved parties actually put out some sort of guidance on what happened/what will happen. 🗓️ September 10, 2021 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Legal🏷️ Epic Window Magic with Keyboard Maestro We don't need no stinkin window manager There are lots of tools in the world that can manage your windows on the Mac. If you're a Keyboard Maestro user, maybe you don't need any other tools. 🗓️ August 16, 2021 🏷️ Mac🏷️ KeyboardMaestro🏷️ Automation The Case for Mini Widgets Single icon widgets should be a thing. When iOS 14 came out last year, one feature really blew up: Widgets. People were making their home screens not only more usable but "Aesthetic AF", whatever that means. Now that it's been a year and widgets are a thing, I propose a new widget style: **The Mini**. 🗓️ June 3, 2021 🏷️ iOS🏷️ WWDC🏷️ Widgets Progress Through the lens of the Space Jam web site. Max Böck, on his blog: Right. So after 25 years of technological progress, after bringing 4.7 billion people in the world online, after we just 🗓️ April 5, 2021 🔗 Max Böck 🏷️ Internet Day 62 Supply Chain Woes After weeks of waiting for cabinets, we're waiting again. 🗓️ March 29, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel Apple's Home Strategy Apple's home strategy is basically ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Let's talk about Apple's strategy for the connected home. Spoiler alert: there isn't one right now. 🗓️ March 17, 2021 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Home🏷️ Automation 52 Fridays Weird year, huh? Fifty-two weeks ago, my company sent us home. We got an email from the big boss saying, essentially, “work from home until further notice.”1 That 🗓️ March 12, 2021 🏷️ personal Day 29 It's been a while Feels like it's dragging along, but progress is being made! 🗓️ February 24, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel Day 15 Short Weekend Electric done, drywall up! 🗓️ February 7, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel Day 9 Going Up The drop ceiling is gone! 🗓️ February 2, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel Day 1 Getting off the paper and into the space Getting from the drawing to the actual space is a big first step. 🗓️ January 26, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel It Begins A quarantine kitchen remodel In the hopes that a Covid vaccine makes it possible to go out and do stuff later this year, we're tackling our kitchen. 🗓️ January 24, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel Day One Breathe. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are officially leading the country. They're hitting the ground running. 🗓️ January 20, 2021 📷 ABC News 🏷️ Politics Impeached Again. Objectively the worst President ever. Donald J Trump got impeached today. Again. Let's have some fun with charts 🗓️ January 13, 2021 🏷️ Politics 2020 Year In Review What a shit show... Well, 2020 is drawing to a close, and I for one am ready. 🗓️ December 19, 2020 🏷️ Personal Create Random Wallpapers With Shortcuts Spice up your lock screen! One of the new/not so new features in iOS 14 is the ability to set wallpapers using Shortcuts. This is great if you want to schedule a different 🗓️ December 15, 2020 🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ iOS🏷️ iPadOS Chrome is Bad Chrome has been I.E. for a while, now. Loren Brichter has started a one-page website to let us all know how bad Chrome is. 🗓️ December 13, 2020 🔗 Loren Brichter 🏷️ Chrome🏷️ Mac AirPods Max Are Here But why? Apple announced the newest member of the AirPods family this morning: the over-the-ear AirPods Max. Or, AirPods Maxes? ¯\(ツ)/¯ Pluralization is 🗓️ December 8, 2020 🏷️ Apple🏷️ AirPods WeekNotes 20-49 Week 49: Nov 30 - Dec 6 🗓️ December 6, 2020 🏷️ weeknotes Get Device Info Using Shortcuts Days off mean overcomplicated automations Sitting here watching Monsters, Inc. with my son on a lazy Friday-after-Thanksgiving, I was building out a new Shortcut that required my Device 🗓️ November 27, 2020 🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ iOS🏷️ iPadOS Delete Birthdays With Shortcuts Quickly remove birthdays from your contacts Remember a few years ago when social networks on phones were brand new and we all gave Facebook or Twitter or Path or HeyTell or whatever to our 🗓️ November 21, 2020 🏷️ Shortcuts WeekNotes 20-46 Week 46: Nov 09 - Nov 15 🗓️ November 17, 2020 🏷️ weeknotes