I’m starting a new series where I’ll be looking at some of the most popular task managers. Before getting started, however, here’s a look at how I’m currently using OmniFocus with my setup and favorite features. This feature set will be a baseline of sorts while I look at competing apps… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Early Access and Backstage Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
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Studio Build Update – The Plans (MacSparky Labs)
The MacSparky Studio build now has architectural plans and submittals are about to happen. In this video, I share the new plans and give you a status update…
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Touring My Menu Bar (MacSparky Labs)
My menu bar is always a bit of a work and progress but here it is with my favorite menu bar apps as of March 2022. Also I’ll demonstrate and share a cool Keyboard Maestro script to minimize your menubar and change the clock that I run before screencasting that you may have use for.… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
Week Planning with Sparky, Part 2 (MacSparky Labs)
In this part 2 of my weekly planning video, I show how things went following last week’s plan and proceed to make next week’s blocks, this time without Shortcuts automation but instead using a couple simple keyboard shortcuts…
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Friends of Dave Interview with Dan McCann (MacSparky Labs)
Hooray, I’ve got a new Friends of Dave (FOD) Interview in the MacSparky Labs. Daniel McCann is a professor of medieval literature and a mac geek. During the Pandemic Daniel’s iMac got stolen and he ended up doing all of his work on an iPad for over a year. In this interview, Daniel and David talk about how to get work done on your iPad, Bibliotherapy, and how Chaucer was bending words way before Eminem did… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Early Access and Backstage Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
Make Fantastical Dance (MacSparky Labs)
I’ve had several questions about how I use Fantastical. In this video, I walk through some of my favorite tricks and settings for making Fantastical dance…
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The Geek Meter (MacSparky Labs)
The MacSparky Labs content varies. Some of it is pretty simple. Other bits are rather complex. The MacSparky Labs Geek Meter is a way to express where any new content lies on that spectrum. …
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Weekly Planning with Sparky (MacSparky Labs)
I thought it’d be fun to share how I set up my weekly hyper-scheduling blocks. This is going to be a two-part video. In this video, I’m setting it up. In the next video (next weekend) I’ll show you how things went …
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More Thoughts on the Peek Performance Event (MacSparky Labs)
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Apple had a big event this week and I’ve got a few thoughts.
Chapters
Introduction
The M1 Chip
The Mac Studio
The Mac Studio Design
The Mac Studio Pricing
The Studio Display
The Big iMac
The Mac Pro
The State of Mac Hardware
What’s Sparky Buying?
The Upcoming Q&A …
Automation to Move Text into a Web Page with Keyboard Maestro (MacSparky Labs)
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I use the web version of Grammarly to check text but getting text into a web form was a pain in the neck. So I automated the process with Keyboard Maestro. Watch this video to learn how I did it and, more broadly, how you can automate pasting text into a web page with Keyboard Maestro …