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Federico is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, where he writes about Apple with a focus on apps, developers, iPad, and iOS productivity. He founded MacStories in April 2009 and has been writing about Apple since. Federico is also the co-host of AppStories, a weekly podcast exploring the world of apps, and Dialog, a show where creativity meets technology.
He can also be found on his two other podcasts on Relay FM – Connected and Remaster.
Great reads and links from around the web.
Writing for Wired, Boone Ashworth profiles the company behind TranscribeGlass, AI-enabled glasses that bring subtitles to everyday life to assist those who are Deaf and hard of hearing. (Link)
In the same week that Google brought its Calendar app to the Apple Watch, it killed Keep for the Watch, as reported by Jess Weatherbed at The Verge. (Link)
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I’ve been playing around with the Notes app’s new Markdown import and export features in the iOS and iPadOS 26 developer betas and, much to my surprise, the functionality is more solid than I originally expected. For this week’s issue of the newsletter, I’m going to share a series of tips that have helped me make sense of this new integration and how to make the most of it.
For starters, you should know that I’ve only been able to access the ‘Import to Notes’ feature from the menu bar on iPadOS 26, and I haven’t found a way to import Markdown documents in the Notes app on the iPhone. Hopefully this will change at some point during the beta cycle. On the iPad, head over with your pointer or finger to the top of the screen to reveal the menu bar, then click File ⇾ Import to Notes. Doing so will reveal a Files picker that lets you import any existing Markdown file from your device into the Notes app. Once a document is imported, it’ll be automatically converted to rich text (with some limitations, more on this below) and placed in an ‘Imported Notes’ folder in the app’s sidebar.
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As you can imagine, I’m pretty happy with the iPadOS 26 announcements from WWDC, and I’ve spent the past two weeks considering the fact that I’ll be working from my iPad Pro a lot over the coming months. It’s good to be home!
But at the same time, I don’t want to completely give up on the power of the Mac Studio that I have on loan from Apple, especially when it comes to running AI models locally on the machine. Earlier this week, I remembered that I could execute scripts with Simon Willison’s llm CLI running on the Mac Studio from the iPad Pro using Shortcuts. Since it took me some trial and error to get there, I’ve compiled my findings here in MacStories Weekly for posterity.
In this issue: Jonathan recommends the (Not Boring) Camera app, John has a theory on why this year’s WWDC was so much better than last year’s, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, and a recap of MacStories articles and this week’s episodes of MacStories podcasts.
A recap of MacStories podcast episodes from the past week.
This week on MacStories podcasts:
This week, Federico and John catch listeners up on their whirlwind WWDC week, which was chaotic in the best possible way.
