Federico Viticci

Editor-in-chief

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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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450 — January 25, 2025

My Obsidian Setup, Part 10: My New Daily Note Template for Quick, Effective Note-Taking

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My Obsidian Setup, Part 10: My New Daily Note Template for Quick, Effective Note-Taking

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Well, it’s been a minute.

I started the My Obsidian Setup series in 2021, and the last installment – in which I talked about how I was saving rich links in Obsidian – came out in early 2022. I like to think that, in the intervening years, a lot has changed for everything to ultimately stay the same.

450 — January 25, 2025

App Debuts

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Claude

Claude added widgets this week. With the latest update, you can start a new session, have a photo analyzed, or open the app’s dictation mode from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. The update is modest but notable since so many web-first apps never support native features like widgets.

450 — January 25, 2025

Interesting Links

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AYANEO, notorious for its high-end handheld gaming devices, has created something truly unique with the AYANEO 3, which includes a modular system for customizing the layout of its controls. (Link)

Andrew Cunningham reviews the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, which is both incredibly fast and expensive. (Link)

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449 — January 18, 2025

Importing GoodLinks Articles Into Readwise Reader via the API

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Importing GoodLinks Articles Into Readwise Reader via the API

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I know, I know.

A few months ago, I wrote about finally having found the read-later app I’d been looking for in GoodLinks, a fantastic native experience for Apple platforms that supports highlights, has extensive Shortcuts actions, and integrates with widgets on both the Home and Lock Screens. The problem was, the more I used GoodLinks, the more I realized I had miscalculated something: I rely on Readwise Reader’s text-to-speech to listen to articles while I’m driving more than I thought.

449 — January 18, 2025

Interesting Links

INTERESTING LINKS

Great reads and links from around the web.

John

Antonio Di Benedetto’s story for The Verge about giant gaming handhelds has big NPC energy. Di Benedetto combined an ASUS Flow Z13 and GameSir G8 Plus controller into a ridiculously large gaming tablet. (Link)

Kashmir Hill, writing for The New York Times, profiles a woman who spends over 20 hours per week in ChatGPT, which she considers her AI boyfriend. (Link)

449 — January 18, 2025

App Debuts

APP DEBUTS

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Explode‎

I wouldn’t be surprised if Explode turns out to be the next viral iPhone app, or at the very least, a utility that will be acquired by Meta, Apple, or Snap. It’s an iPhone/iMessage app combo that lets you send self-destructing (thus the name) texts to your friends using Messages. You can set a timer for texts and photos that will only be viewed once and then explode into a pile of pixelated squares. Every interaction in the app is well-crafted and cleverly aimed at encouraging you to purchase the full experience by leveraging your social graph. I could see this sort of functionality being baked directly into iMessage at some point.

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448 — January 11, 2025

Funnel →

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Funnel

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In my quest to find the easiest, fastest, and most reliable way to append text to a section of my daily note in Obsidian, I want to highlight an app that I’ve been using with great success over my holiday break: Funnel, created by indie developer Dharam Kapila.

Funnel has been around for a while, but it received a major 2.0 update just before Christmas, which prompted me to take it for a spin again, and I was impressed. At a high level, Funnel feels like what would happen if the original version of Drafts came out in 2025. It’s an app that lets you jot down ideas and notes and quickly send them off to a list of predefined destinations. The app is organized into two main tabs: Destinations, where you can set up compatible apps and services that can receive data from Funnel, and Capture, where you’re presented with different options to save your ideas.