SaneBox: Email Deep Clean (Sponsor)

How are you doing with email storage? It’s not that you meant to hoard your emails. You were going to deal with them … some day. But time has passed, and these old emails are piling up and taking up space. If you’re thinking about clearing out some space and cleaning up your inbox, SaneBox, this week’s sponsor at MacSparky, has a new feature that could help you out. 

With Email Deep Clean, you can free up space and declutter your inbox. You choose a date, and SaneBox will scan for emails older than that date. SaneBox will analyze the email in your account and send you an analysis of the biggest offenders: what contacts, newsletters, stores, and/or websites are taking up storage. SaneBox will also come up with the senders that are no longer relevant, and you can choose if you want to delete to them. 

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Mac Power Users 696: App Subscription Check-In

Subscriptions aren’t just the future of software anymore, but they are how many developers are running their businesses today. On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I open up our App Store accounts to discuss what we’re paying for and why.

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Paul Mayne on Day One and Apple’s Journal App

Day One’s creator wrote a blog post about Apple’s new journaling app and its relationship to Day One. It’s too early to tell exactly how deep the Journaling app will go, but I doubt it matches the Day One feature set, which has been growing for years. I generally agree with Paul in that I don’t think the Journal app will “Sherlock” Day One. Indeed I could see many folks starting with the Journal app and then moving up to Date One once they get it about journaling.

Mac Power Users 695: Live from WWDC23

Recorded live at Apple Park, Stephen and I talk about some of the big announcements from WWDC23 on this episode of Mac Power Users.

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Early Vision Pro Feedback

Several journalists got to strap into the new Apple Vision Pro headset. Three of my favorite reads are from Matthew Panzarino, Jason Snell, and Chance Miller. I’ve also spoken to several others here in Cupertino that got the demo. Every person I’ve spoken to that got to try Vision Pro praises the technology. This truly is one of those “only Apple” products. There is no other company with the hardware and software expertise to pull it off. The 12-millisecond latency is something that particularly stands out.

The question that we’ll be asking ourselves is how this technology can change our lives. Looking back at the Apple Watch, Apple initially leaned into it as a fashion product but eventually came around to the idea that it is primarily a health and fitness device. I think for the Vision Pro, the killer use case will be even more stratified. Some people will want them to consume content. Imagine having an IMAX-equivalent screen you can strap on your head or watching your favorite sport virtually on the field next to your favorite players. I love the idea of creating virtual workspaces where I could journal in the middle of Yosemite or do some work while enjoying the view from Machu Picchu. I also like the idea of a seemingly 40-foot whiteboard that I could use in my 14-foot office.

The answer to how we’d use this is going to be “it depends on the person.” Can Apple continue to nail and improve upon this technology? Likely. Will this technology reach critical mass as it gets more affordable? That depends on whether there are enough good reasons for it.