Stephen is back from his sabbatical and joins David just in time for some holiday shopping.

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Peak Design - Mobile Accessories

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Chipolo CARD Spot

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Nitecore EDC27 UHi 3100 Lumen Flashlight

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Leatherman Wave+

Sparky's Customized Leatherman

Logitech MX Master 3S Wireless Performance Mouse

Logitech MX Vertical Ergonomic Wireless Mouse

Set Up Custom Mouse Clicks Using BetterTouchTool - MacSparky YouTube

Learn OmniFocus

Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger to USB-C Cable (1 m)

About fast charge on Apple Watch - Apple Support

Elgato Stream Deck Neo

Elgato Cam Link 4K

Vestaboard

Tidbyt

Plotter Notebooks

Plotter - The Newsprint

LEGO NASA Artemis Space Launch System

Apple’s new Mac mini is more mighty, more mini, and built for Apple Intelligence - Apple

Apple unveils stunning new iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro - Apple

AirPods Pro 2 - Apple

What It's Like to Hear Better with AirPods Pro 2 - MacStories

Introducing Apple Watch Series 10 - Apple

Bambu Lab

The Lisa - MacStories

Lisa: Steve Jobs’ sabotage and Apple’s secret burial - The Verge

"Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa" Full Documentary Film - YouTube

Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional Watches

Speedmaster "Dark Side Of The Moon" Watches

Omega X Swatch to the Planets with the Bioceramic MoonSwatch Collection

This week Vision Pro power user Alex Cox explains how it's going using the Apple Vision Pro to get work done.

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Neumann stage microphone KMS 105

Solotop for Apple Vision Pro Modern Solo Knit Top-strap Adapters print & Ship - Etsy

Magic Room AVP App

Alex's Current Sticky Note App

Widgetsmith

Spatial Station

Flexibits | Fantastical — The calendar and tasks app you won't be able to live without.

Bezel: Spatial Phone Mirroring on the App Store

HomeUI - Smart Home on the App Store

Piano: Flowing Tiles on the App Store

Bombaroom on the App Store

HomeUI - Smart Home on the App Store

Orion AI Glasses: The Future of AR Glasses Technology | Meta

Solotop for Apple Vision Pro Modern Solo Knit Top-strap Adapters print & Ship - Etsy

Voicepen - Audio to blog post

'What If…? – An Immersive Story' Now Available on Apple Vision Pro | Marvel

Blackbox for Vision on the App Store

Job Simulator on the App Store

What I’m Doing Now - MacSparky

Author Chris Bailey joins to discuss his simple tech stack and interesting automation to tie it all together.

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Thunderbolt 4 Dock | TS4 | CalDigit – CalDigit

Roam 2: Portable Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker | Sonos

Flexibits | Fantastical — The calendar and tasks app you won't be able to live without.

Simplenote

A Hyper Key with Karabiner Elements, full instructions - BrettTerpstra.com

Hyper Key Via BetterTouchTool - MacSparky

Keyboard Maestro 11.0.3: Work Faster with Macros for macOS

Productivity Field Guide (Plus Edition) | MacSparky Field Guides

Keyboard Maestro Field Guide | MacSparky Field Guides

Fastmail

Presence Sensor FP2 - Aqara

Bear - Markdown Notes

Educator and Apple Enthusiast Barrett Mosbacker joins to share his favorite apps and workflows and discuss how Apple is doing in education.

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iA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps

DEVONtechnologies | DEVONthink, professional document and information management for the Mac and iOS

Scrivener - Literature & Latte

Mind Map & Brainstorm Ideas - MindNode

Mac Power Users #82: Cooking Ideas - Relay FM

Outlining Software For Pros - OmniOutliner - The Omni Group

Freeform on the App Store

NotebookLM

Perplexity

Introducing ChatGPT | OpenAI

The Anxious Generation Out Now. Order the Book.

PDF Editor and Reader for Mac | Free Trial | PDF Expert

Stephen Millard joins to talk about some of his favorite Mac Apps and the role of automation.

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Obsidian | ThoughtAsylum

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Alfred - Productivity App for macOS

Alfred Workflows - Extend Alfred and Boost Your Productivity

GitHub - sballin/alfred-search-notes-app: Use Alfred to quickly open notes in iCloud/Apple Notes.

Alfred Workflow for DT 3.x - DEVONthink - DEVONtechnologies Community

Raycast - Your shortcut to everything

Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

Drafts | Where Text Starts

Keyboard Maestro 11.0.3: Work Faster with Macros for macOS

TextSoap - Automate Your Text Cleanup

HexMonkey Software - MassReplaceIt

Warp: Own the command line

Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer) is creating content & tools to help you be productive with your tech

Tot • Your tiny text companion

Tot Notes - All this

Home Assistant

Weasley Clock | Harry Potter Wiki

Glenn Fleishman, freelance journalist, book author, editor, and comics and type historian, joins to share what he's up to and some of his favorite workflows.

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Shift Happens: A book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary — Kickstarter

Mac 911 | Macworld

Take Control Books – Expert Advice from Leading Tech Authors

Take Control Books – Expert Advice from Leading Tech Authors

Participate :: How Comics Were Made: a Visual History of Printing Cartoons by Glenn Fleishman

24 Life Lessons for Filmmakers from Werner Herzog | No Film School

Participate :: How Comics Were Made: a Visual History of Printing Cartoons by Glenn Fleishman

The Eternal Truth of Markdown | WIRED

Scrivener - Literature & Latte

MacPad: How I Created the Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet That Apple Won't Make - MacStories

Chipolo ONE Spot & Chipolo CARD Spot - Works with the Apple Find My app - Chipolo

Participate :: How Comics Were Made: a Visual History of Printing Cartoons by Glenn Fleishman

TextSniper - Capture and extract any text from your Mac's screen | images

PopClip for Mac

Mac Power Users #757: Four Great Mac Utilities - Relay FM

Default Folder X

Ice - Menu Bar Manager

Stephen and David talk about Apple's new hardware, then take a tour of macOS Sequoia, iOS and iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11.

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Camera Control does a lot, but you can also make it just a simple button

macOS Sequoia 15.0 review: The opening act – Six Colors

macOS Sequoia: The MacStories Review

macOS 15 Sequoia – macOS Screenshot Library — 512 Pixels

Drag and Drop Files Now Work With iPhone Mirroring in Latest macOS Sequoia 15.1 and iOS 18.1 Betas - MacRumors

Tile windows on Mac - Apple Support

Moom

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Michael Tsai - Blog - Sequoia Screen Recording Prompts and the Persistent Content Capture Entitlement

macOS Sequoia screen recording permission nags can be zapped - 9to5Mac

iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review

iOS 18 Review: Your iPhone, your way – Six Colors

watchOS 11: The MacStories Review

William Gallagher, a British television writer and educator joins David to share his favorite Mac hardware and workflows.

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58keys | Welcome to 58keys, a YouTube series for writers using Macs, iPads and iPhones.

William Gallagher | AppleInsider

Bartender 5 - Take control of your Menu bar

Drafts | Where Text Starts

Start Writing Your Screenplay with Final Draft 13 - Final Draft®

Scrivener - Literature & Latte

Task Management Software Built For Pros - OmniFocus - The Omni Group

Task Management Software Built For Pros - OmniFocus - The Omni Group

Outlining Software For Pros - OmniOutliner - The Omni Group

Project Management Software For Professionals - OmniPlan - The Omni Group

Apple's September event brought new iPhones, updated AirPods, and a revised Apple Watch line. Stephen and David sort through the news and share their thoughts.

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No Mo’ Chemo – 512 Pixels

Why Do You Have To Go and Make Things So Complicated? – 512 Pixels

A Few Thoughts Following Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” Event - MacSparky

Introducing Apple Watch Series 10 - Apple

Apple Watch Ultra 2 now available in black titanium - Apple

Apple introduces groundbreaking health features - Apple

Apple introduces iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus - Apple

Apple debuts iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max - Apple

Apple introduces AirPods 4 and a hearing health experience with AirPods Pro 2 - Apple

AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature - 9to5Mac

Apple Intelligence comes to iPhone, iPad, and Mac starting next month - Apple

Matt Cassinelli joins the show to discuss his background with Workflow and Apple and how it led to him becoming the "Shortcuts Guy." The group then discusses Apple's automation tools across its platforms, and how those tools have extended to the web.

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Matthew Cassinelli (@matthewcassinelli) on Threads

Matthew Cassinelli (@[email protected]) - Mastodon

Shortcuts Membership – Matthew Cassinelli

Workflow Review: Integrated Automation for iOS 8 - MacStories

Workflow's Original Website (via the Internet Archive)

Apple Acquires Workflow - MacStories

The Future of Workflow - MacStories

App Intents | Apple Developer Documentation

@matthewcassinelli "computers r cool" • Threads

Elgato

Contextual Computing Archives - MacSparky

OSA Script for Stream Deck

Podcast Note workflow, now with Shortcuts – Six Colors

Shortcuts for Mac: The Future Is Now - MacStories

Intro to personal automation in Shortcuts on iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

(Personal Automations are not present on macOS.)

Stop and Output – Matthew Cassinelli

Run Shortcuts - Alfred Gallery

Bug Reporting - Apple Developer

David and Stephen take inventory of what software and services they're using in their content businesses, and how they work with their respective teams across multiple time zones and platforms.

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Newsletter - MacSparky

Whisper Memos

Drafts

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MarsEdit 5

Mac Power Users #717: The Apple Notes Deep Dive - Relay FM

iA Writer

Ulysses

Obsidian

Notion

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