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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