Project Setup with Craft, OmniFocus, and Shortcuts (MacSparky Labs)

Some of the labs members are interested in Craft. Good news! I’m using Craft for some of the Labs back-end. Here’s a Shortcut that builds out a new project using Craft and OmniFocus along with some basic training in Craft…

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Creating Animated Hand-Drawn Slides in Keynote (MacSparky Labs)

When I gave my presentation at the Linking Your Thinking Conference, I did it with hand-drawn, animated slides. These slides got a lot more comments and questions than I expected. So here is a short tutorial for Labs members explaining and demonstrating exactly how I did it…

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Using Obsidian for Task Management (MacSparky Labs)

I spent three weeks running Obsidian as my primary task manager. I learned that task management in Obsidian is a lot better than I expected, but probably still not the answer for me. In this video, I walk through plugins and workflows to manage your tasks in Obsidian…

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Creating OmniFocus Templates with Keyboard Maestro (MacSparky Labs)

For a long time I’ve been adding OmniFocus template projects using Shortcuts. I have a few other automations that involve project creation with Keyboard Maestro, which got me thinking about adding templated OmniFocus projects via Keyboard Maestro…

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Taking Screenshots with the Mac’s Built-in Tools (MacSparky Labs)

As part of my ongoing task manager survey, there’s a new simple task list / focus app called Bento and I’m trying it out. The app is pretty and functional so long as your task list isn’t too big or complex. Still, I dig the way they got the little details right and can see a lot of people using Bento. Here’s an app walkthrough and discussion… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Level 3 (Early Access) and Level 2 (Backstage) Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?

The May Virtual Meetup (MacSparky Labs)

Over the weekend we had the MacSparky Labs Virtual Meetup. This one took place on Saturday, May 7, 2022. Topics include:

0:00 Warming Up and New Mac Studios
7:19 Docks and Cables
18:14 Spending Bruce’s Money
33:31 WWDC Hopes and Dreams
46:46 Protecting Doc’s Whiskey
50:07 Developer Wishes for WWDC
51:20 The New Mac Pro
56:42 WWDC Surprises …

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