One of the features I was looking forward to the most with the iPhone 15 Pro has been the one I've taken advantage the least... the Action Button. The idea of having an assignable button on my digital assistant seemed like the perfect feature. So after getting my iPhone I …

Yesterday Jason Snell (@jsnell) shared a link to his post about a Shortcut he found that will review your calendar and give you a list of dates/times you're available. At first this seemed like a "kinda of ok" Shortcut after I read Jason's post because the Shortcut only pulled …

The long holiday weekend allowed me to catch up on some reading ¹ and some more ideas on matching my macOS automations for my iPad. In preparation for upcoming posts, I started looking at ways to get image links easily formatted for my site.

Since I write in Markdown, inserting …

My first exposure to using text files to store little bits of information came from Merlin Mann on a Mac Power Users episode.¹ This is one of those episodes I consider part of the foundation of my personal automation path. Using Merlin's text file tag names has been a …

With my updated Mac mini ¹, I've started getting back into looking at automation ideas for my home setup. A recent Mac Power Users podcast hit close to home for me because it was a great discussion by David and Stephen on the recently updated Mac mini. David and Stephen …