MacSparky
Half Your Day Isn’t Your Job
Apple Should Buy Anthropic (But Likely Won’t)
The Lab Report for March 13, 2026
Setapp Single App Subscriptions
Going Deeper with SuperWhisper
Widgetsmith Wallpaper Shine Through
Focused 251: Joe Casabona
Apple Drops 512GB RAM Option on M3 Ultra Mac Studio
Testing Acme Weather
MindNode: Mind Mapping Meets Apple Watch (Sponsor)
Unite Pro Complete SwiftUI Rebuild
Mac Power Users 839: David Pogue
Don’t Let the Robot Drive Alone
Home Screens: Dave Myhre
The Lab Report for March 6, 2026
The Rivian Apple Watch App
Labs Book Club: Intentional with Chris Bailey
MacBook Neo First Impressions
SoundSource: Complete Audio Control for Your Mac (Sponsor)
M5 MacBook Pros: Fine Computers With an Asterisk
“Don’t Call it Art” from Austin Kleon
Stephen Millard’s Stream Deck Plugin
Apple’s Big Hardware Week
Mac Power Users 838: iPhone Setup Showdown
Nobody Can Make Fun of Phone Cameras Anymore
February in the MacSparky Labs
The Feedback Loop Between Teaching and Learning
The Lab Report for February 27, 2026
Drafts Just Got a Lot Smarter (Sponsor)
AI Agents Need Guardrails
Exploring iPhone Capture Techniques
Focused 250: Planning Your Week
On Going Wallet-Free
Do Everything on Your Mac with the Keyboard, Easily
The Six Colors 2025 Annual Report Card
Mac Power Users 837: Menu Bar Mayhem
Misguided Optimization – Seth Godin
Memory is King, Again
Why I Still Use Shortform After Three Years (Sponsor)
The Lab Report for February 20, 2026
Deep Dive – Home Screen Lab
The M5 vs. M6 MacBook Pro Buyer’s Dilemma
The Red Badge Won
DEVONthink AI-Assisted Naming and Filing
Donkey Work – What I Actually Want AI to Do
The Apple March 4 Experience
Mac Power Users 836: Welcome, Stephen
Supercharge Updates
Why the M5 Matters If You Run AI Locally
The Lab Report for February 13, 2026
A (Retired) Lawyer’s Take on Claude’s Legal Plugin
Good Greif!, Siri.
Letterpress in a Digital World (Sponsor: Hoban Press)
Focused 249: What if This Were Easy? with Ernie Svenson
Deep Dive – Using Claude Cowork
The Creator Studio Bundle Has a Bundling Problem
Mac Power Users 835: Farewell, Stephen
I Built the Perfect AI Robot. Then I Pulled the Plug
The Lab Report for February 6, 2026
Claude’s Constitution
Fixing Text with Keyboard Maestro
Apple’s Delightful Lunar New Year Film
Claude Is My (Current) AI of Choice
Mac Power Users 834: I Am the Tardis
A New Chapter for Mac Power Users
January in the MacSparky Labs
The Lab Report for January 30, 2026
Sparky’s Tech Stack for 2026
Whisper Memos: Now Import Your Own Audio Files (Sponsor)
The Corsair Galleon 100 SD: Stream Deck Meets Keyboard
Stephen Robles on Apple Creator Studio
Focused 248: Seriously, a Heroic Journey
The Endor Studio Lighting Project
Make List of Calendar Events with Shortcuts
Mac Power Users 833: Chris Bailey and His Battle-Scarred M1
This Is the Year Apple Has to Deliver on Siri
The Lab Report for January 23, 2026
The M5 Pro and Max Are Going to Be Monsters for Local AI
File Renaming with Claude Cowork
Three Weeks with Apple Wallet Car Key
Left – A Clever Time Left Widget
Brian Moore Shows Us Just How Screwed We All Are
OmniOutliner 6 Is Here
Mac Power Users 832: All About Apple Weather
MacSparky’s 2026 Home Screen and Automation
Easy Tool Storage with ToolTrace.ai (and my Bambu 3D printer)
Apple Creator Studio’s Awkward Bundle (Sponsor)
Timing: See Your Work, Not Just Your Schedule (Sponsor)
The Lab Report for January 16, 2026
Announcing the 2026 Productivity Field Guide
2026 Q1 Planning Session
Focused 247: Getting Intentional, with Chris Bailey
BusyCal’s Linear Calendar Feature
Gemini and Siri
Mac Power Users 831: Revisiting Our Writing Workflows
Timing: Time Tracking That Does the Work for You (Sponsor)
Five New Apple Products in 2026? Yes, Please.
The Lab Report for January 9, 2026
Testing Apple’s Digital Car Key
Mac Power Users 830: iOS 26: Focus Modes & Notifications
Solving for Meaningfulness
The 2026 Focused Calendar
PowerPhotos 3.0: The Power Tools Apple Photos Needs (Sponsor)
Focused 246: A Cleansing Palette of Joy
December in the MacSparky Labs
Mac Power Users 829: Tech That Worked in 2025
MacSparky’s Life Update 2025
The Lab Report for December 26, 2025
Apple Music and ChatGPT
WinterFest 2025: Artisanal Intelligence for the New Year (Sponsor)
Using MCP with Third-Party Software on the Mac
Mac Power Users 828: Revisiting Keyboard Maestro
The Shop Time Experiment
Deep Dive – Year-End Tech Stack Audits
Festivitas Returns
The Mastermind Box Cover
Email Linking Script Update (and Keyboard Maestro Script Execution)
The Lab Report for December 19, 2025
DEVONthink To Go 4
Getting Links to Apple Notes Using Keyboard Maestro
Focused 245: Fashionable & Functional, with Patrick Rhone
Mac Power Users 827: Every Two Months or So
Book Club 005 – Apple in China
Jam Session 005 – Career Transitions and Retirement
On Recent Apple ManagementChanges
New Link For the Yule Playlist
The Lab Report for December 12, 2025
The Hypothetical iPhone Fold and Its Impact on the iPhone Line
Big Update for SoundSource
Using PCC for Adding Tasks to Reminders
Updated Apple Mail Link AppleScript
Whisper Memos: Record a Voice Memo, Receive It as Email (Sponsor)
Mac Power Users 826: 2025 State of the Platforms (Part 2)
Taming YouTube (Without Missing the Good Stuff)
The Lab Report for December 5, 2025
Dictation Series 02 – Wispr Flow
Focused 244: You’re Holding It Wrong
Record Any Audio With Audio Hijack, From Rogue Amoeba (Sponsor)
Mac Power Users 825: 2025 State of the Platforms (Part 1)
The 2026 Focused Calendar
“Last Call” for the 2025 Field Guide Sale
November in the MacSparky Labs
My Social Media Superpower (And Why It Stopped Working)
Field Guides Still 20% Off
The Lab Report for November 28, 2025
Sparky’s Updated Setup Workflow
A Brief Note on Polarization and Turkey
Ulysses Liquid Glass Update
Daylite’s New Mail Feature Connects Email to Everything That Matters (Sponsor)
Mac Power Users 824: Life After iPadOS 26
2025 Q4 Q&A with Sparky
Apple Workflow Consulting: Bear & Glass
The Annual Field Guide Sale Starts Today
The Lab Report for November 21, 2025
Deep Dive • Myth-Busting Focus Modes
NotePlan: Your Notes, Tasks, and Calendar in One Place
Next Up: Robots
Enabling Hypertension Notifications
Focused 243: The Single Source of Truth is On the Fridge, with Thom Gibson
1Password Auto-Unlock
Mac Power Users 823: The 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
Celebrating the M1 Chip
Speed Should Not Always Be the Metric
Dictation Series – Apple Solutions
Retirement Reinvented by Jim Eagar
The Lab Report for November 14, 2025
Where Can We Use Digital IDs?
“Did I Do?” Task Tracker
MailMaven: A New Mail App From a Longtime Mail Plugin Developer
Quip: The Clipboard Manager That Actually Stays Organized (Sponsor)
Mac Power Users 822: iPhone 17 Photography with Tyler Stalman
Hookmark Pal
Why Dictation is Easier and More Relevant
Direct Mail: Email Marketing Without the Browser Bloat (Sponsor)
This Is What Happens When You Listen to Too Much Jazz (McSweeney’s)
The Lab Report for November 7, 2025
Ternus as Next Apple CEO?
A Better Way to Add a Notes Links to a Reminder
Focused 242: The Case for Analog
The 2026 Focused Calendar
Jam Session 004 – Mac mini Server
OmniOutliner 6 Now Avaialble on TestFlight
Slideover Returns to iPadOS 26 (Sort Of)
Mac Power Users 821: Developer Roundtable 2025
OpenCase, A Clever Solution for Your iPhone (Sponsor)
October in the MacSparky Labs
The Lab Report for October 31, 2025
Deep Dive – iPad Workflows after iPadOS 26
Mac Power Users 820: The Apple Productivity Suite Field Guide
iPad Experiment and iPad Home Screen
Apple reveals seven new Immersive Videos coming soon to Vision Pro – 9to5Mac
The Lab Report for October 24, 2025
Announcing the Apple Productivity Suite Field Guide
De-Liquify Liquid Glass
Focused 241: Less but Better, with Austin L. Church
Deep Dive – Digital Minimalism in 2025
Meeting Summarizer with Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence
Mac Power Users 819: The User Interface at 60 MPH
The Inherent Value of the Creative Act
The Lab Report for October 17, 2025
Initial Impressions of the Logitech MX Master 4 Mouse
Rivian and CarPlay
Experimenting with KeyCue
Mac Power Users 818: “Recreational Math,” with Dr. Drang
Kagi News: A News Site That Respects Your Time
The Lab Report for October 10, 2025
OmniFocus Updates
Automating Project Creation using MCP with OmniFocus
The Looming M6 MacBook Pro
Focused 240: Q4 Planning
Direct Mail: Email Marketing That Feels at Home on Your Mac (Sponsor)
Simple But Useful Window Management Trick (with special guest Moom)
Mac Power Users 817: macOS Tahoe, visionOS, & watchOS 26
The iPhone Air Decision
Building a Handwritten Text Converter with AI
The Lab Report for October 3, 2025
September in the MacSparky Labs
Now Page Update
Hopes for Apple MCP Support
Editing Photos with Google Gemini
Listen Later: Get Your Articles as Podcasts (Sponsor)
Mac Power Users 816: iOS & iPadOS 26
The Reason for the iPhone Air
The Lab Report for September 26, 2025