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Rings are hard, apparently. They're not just going to walk in. Oura CEO Tom Hale, to CNBC: I think they [Apple] are unconvinced about the value of having a ring and a watch together and they’re not interested 🗓️ November 14, 2024 🔗 CNBC 📷 Oura (via CNBC) 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Oura🏷️ Wearables🏷️ LinkedList Bluesky Another social media shiny. Seems every few months lately there’s a new social media darling. I was perfectly content being mostly on Twitter for 15 years until Musk turned it 🗓️ November 13, 2024 🏷️ Bluesky🏷️ Social Media It's Planning New Year! Hopefully it's not the last... I know I’ve said it before, but it’s still true: I think September is the best time to plan your year. The week after Labor Day (in the U.S.) is a 🗓️ September 5, 2024 🏷️ Habits🏷️ Health🏷️ Productivity🏷️ Opinion Ten Years Am I a Californian Yet? Ten years ago this week, we packed up our apartment and my furniture shop into a big-ass Uhaul and drove from Brooklyn to Los Angeles to start a fun 🗓️ July 14, 2024 🏷️ Personal Happy Independence Day Hopefully it's not the last... This is the day when people violate the US Flag Code with abandon, make fun of England for losing the war 250 years ago, terrify pets and vets with 🗓️ July 4, 2024 🏷️ Politics Well, this isn’t ideal 🗓️ April 19, 2024 🔗 Instagram 🏷️ Micro Shortcuts Suggestions Shortcuts is a powerful automation app for Apple platforms, but there's still room for improvement. I inserted myself into a thread on Mastodon where Matthew Cassinelli1 was chatting with some internet folks about Shortcuts improvements and issues. 🗓️ December 7, 2023 🏷️ Shortcuts Threads Meta's new Twitter competitor Threads launched yesterday, and got 30 million users overnight. That's pretty impressive. Meta’s new Twitter competitor Threads launched yesterday, and got 30 million users overnight. That’s pretty impressive. Instagram has 2 billion 🗓️ July 6, 2023 🏷️ Meta🏷️ Threads🏷️ Social Media Google Domains Shutting Down Google pulls a Reader (again...) In a move surprising no one, Google is shutting down its domain registry service. They are selling everything to Squarespace. I’m glad it’s going to 🗓️ June 16, 2023 🔗 9to5Google 🏷️ Google🏷️ Squarespace🏷️ LinkedList Reddit Pulls a Twitter Something something doomed to repeat it... Christian Selig, creator of the Reddit client Apollo, on Reddit: June 30th will be Apollo’s last day. If you haven’t been following this whole 🗓️ June 8, 2023 🏷️ Reddit🏷️ LinkedList iPad Pro? Sacrificing devices to the beta gods I have lots of thoughts on the WWDC announcements this week, but it’ll take a few days to get them in order. One thing I can say - When it came time 🗓️ June 6, 2023 🏷️ WWDC🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPad Final Cut and Logic for iPad Finally. From the Apple Newsroom: Final Cut Pro for iPad introduces a powerful set of tools for video creators to record, edit, finish, and share, all from 🗓️ May 9, 2023 🔗 Apple 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPad🏷️ Linked List Return to The Omni Show I was a guest on the Omni Show again. You should listen to it. I stopped by the Omni Show after a couple years to chat with Andrew about how I automate the crap out of my task management system. 🗓️ March 21, 2023 🔗 The Omni Group 🏷️ Podcast🏷️ OmniFocus🏷️ Linked List Create Project Codes With Shortcuts Counting is hard. Make the computer do it. When you have as many projects going on as I do, things get confusing pretty fast. Ok, maybe I have too many projects, but that’s another issue 🗓️ March 19, 2023 🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ Automation🏷️ Obsidian🏷️ Omnifocus Breaking News: Tim Cook Does His Job Decisions are hard. People are acting like Design ran Apple and Tim Cook is changing that. But that was never the case. 🗓️ March 14, 2023 🔗 Financial Times 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Headset🏷️ Linked List Clean Up Your Shortcuts Library So. Much. Junk. I have a lot of Shortcuts. Like hundreds. And most of them are old, outdated, broken, or designed around apps I no longer use. I needed a way to 🗓️ March 1, 2023 🏷️ Omnifocus🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ Automation Blue Origin Wants to Mine the Moon This is some Bond-level Dr. Evil shit. Eric Berger, in Ars Technica Blue Origin will attempt to market the technology to NASA for use by its Artemis program to return humans to the Moon 🗓️ February 13, 2023 🔗 Ars Technica 🏷️ Blue Origin🏷️ Linked List Using Personal Project Codes Overkill? Maybe. Useful? Absolutely I’ve been playing around with using project codes for years. Using a code instead of just a name makes sure that it is unique and easily searchable. 🗓️ January 31, 2023 🏷️ Omnifocus🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ Automation🏷️ Obsidian 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🏷️ Linked List 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🏷️ Linked List 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🏷️ Linked List 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🏷️ Linked List