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Federico Viticci

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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.

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414 — April 20, 2024

My Obsidian Template Setup Powered by Shortcuts, Things, and the Actions App

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My Obsidian Template Setup Powered by Shortcuts, Things, and the Actions App

On the next episode of AppStories, John and I will cover our Obsidian setups in depth with a conversation about our favorite themes, plugins, and organization systems for notes in the app. Something that I won’t cover in the episode is my workflow for templates, which I’ve implemented over the past few weeks and wanted to explain in detail here in MacStories Weekly.

I use Obsidian to write and edit all the content I publish on MacStories and the Club, and the app has been working exceptionally well for years at this point. Lately, however, I’ve felt the need to standardize a few aspects of the process. Specifically, I wanted to

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414 — April 20, 2024

App Debuts

APP DEBUTS

Noteworthy new app releases and updates, handpicked by the MacStories team.

Carousel

I’ve been thinking about the fact that, in the age of spatial computing, Apple should probably consider bringing back their old Cover Flow UI for browsing music, and it looks like I’m not alone. Carousel (great app name) lets you flick through hundreds of albums from your Music collection with a simple swipe gesture and play them with one tap. I think the app needs settings to define whether the user should, for instance, see recently added or played albums, so I hope the developer iterates on it. The idea has potential, and the 3D effect makes a lot of sense for the Vision Pro.

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414 — April 20, 2024

Interesting Links

INTERESTING LINKS

Great reads and links from around the web.

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge, covers Formlabs’ Form 4, a 3D printer that uses an LCD screen with a bright backlight to print up to five times faster than previous models. (Link)

Engadget reviews the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 and concludes that it’s not just another laptop for gamers, but a great high-performance laptop for all sorts of tasks. (Link)

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413 — April 13, 2024

App Debuts

APP DEBUTS

Noteworthy new app releases and updates, handpicked by the MacStories team.

File Widgets

I love this app idea: as the name suggests, File Widgets brings the functionality of the Files widget from iOS and iPadOS to macOS, where Finder doesn’t offer a similar widget to quickly see recent files from a folder. To use the app, you pick which folders you want to monitor in widgets, then you add some widgets to your Mac desktop and edit them to point at previously-selected folders. That’s it. You can then click on files inside widgets to open them in their default app, click on sub-folders to view them in Finder, or click the widget’s name to open the original folder in the Finder app. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple Sherlocks File Widgets later this year.

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413 — April 13, 2024

Three Mac Tips I Recently Implemented in My MacPad Workflow

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Three Mac Tips I Recently Implemented in My MacPad Workflow

As I continue using the MacPad as my main convertible computer and further cementing my belief that I created the best Apple device the company never officially made, I regularly run across new apps and strategies that I want to incorporate in my workflow. This week, I’m going to run down a few things I recently learned about working on the Mac that I hope will be useful to non-MacPad owners as well.

Pin Obsidian Notes to a Sidebar

I guess this feature isn’t necessarily exclusive to macOS, but I think it works better on the Mac thanks to larger screens and Obsidian’s superior performance on desktop. I recently learned that Obsidian lets you drag a tab to the left sidebar, and once there, you can open it in a compact sidebar-only layout that’s perfect for keeping a note always available for quick reference. Like this:

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413 — April 13, 2024

Interesting Links

INTERESTING LINKS

Great reads and links from around the web.

Both good and bad news for fans of PC gaming: NVIDIA is gearing up to release the RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards later this year. Where by “bad” I mean that these are going to be expensive. (Link)

Can you watch a solar eclipse in the Apple Vision Pro? The Verge investigated this very important question. (Link)

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