Bartender 4 Is a Must-Have App for Any MacBook Pro With a Notch

The iPhone is a much more popular product than the MacBook Pro, so naturally the discussion around the iPhone X’s notch was much larger than the discussion around the MacBook Pro’s notch. If we were discuss them relative to one another, I think more words have been spilled on the MacBook Pro’s notch. It takes a few months of use to gain perspective...

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Doing a Digital Declutter, Using the Peloton App to Develop a Fitness Habit, and More

Here are the things we published this week and last. You can also stay up-to-date by following us on Twitter and RSS. Also, we have a weekly email newsletter that sums up all the new and cool things published to the site. If you like to stay up-to-date via email, then you should sign up here. Developing a Fitness Habit with the Peloton App » There...

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How Obsidian’s Live Preview Feature Works (VIDEO)

Obsidian version 13 introduced a new editor engine that allows WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editing called Live Preview. It’s a pretty big update, and in this video, we walk you through how to set it up and how it works. One of the things that I love about Obsidian is that it is all based on plain text. Any note in your Obsidian vault...

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Developing a Fitness Habit with the Peloton App

It was January 2020. I hit the New Year with ambition. I wanted to read more, write more, and most importantly, exercise more. We had a dusty old exercise bike adopted from a family member in the corner of the basement. It hadn’t been used in years. I researched the best fitness apps for iPhone and iPad the last week of December 2019 and I came away...

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Doing a Digital Declutter

Pre – S: This article originally appeared on our sister site The Focus Course back in 2020. At the bottom you can find links to the kickoff and wrap-up articles. * * * I’ve long been a fan of Cal Newport’s work, and in 2019 he wrote a New York Times bestseller, Digital Minimalism. When I first heard Cal start talking about the concept of the book...

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Josh Ginter’s 2022 MacBook Pro Accounting Setup, Writing Your Own PopClip Extension Snippets, and More

Here are the things we published this week and last. You can also stay up-to-date by following us on Twitter and RSS. Also, we have a weekly email newsletter that sums up all the new and cool things published to the site. If you like to stay up-to-date via email, then you should sign up here. Josh Ginter’s 2022 M1 Pro MacBook Pro Accounting Setup...

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Quick Tip: Writing Your Own PopClip Extension Snippets

PopClip is a text utility that I’ve learned to rely on when working from my Mac. It gives you an iOS-style bar above any text that you select, allowing you to instantly send it to another app using over 200 available extensions. Using PopClip, you can quickly add to-dos to your task manager, events to your calendar, and a whole lot more. And with version...

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Josh Ginter’s 2022 M1 Pro MacBook Pro Accounting Setup

I’ll start by apologizing: October 5th, 2021 is the last time I dove deep into my Mac setup, boring everyone to the ends of the earth about how I use a Mac at the accounting office. I’m sorry for dragging you through that a few months ago. But now for my justification: This little interview series may well stand as a testament to how far Apple has...

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Everyday Gear for Living a Focused Life, Our Must-Have Apps, and More

Here are the things we published this week and last. You can also stay up-to-date by following us on Twitter and RSS. Also, we have a weekly email newsletter that sums up all the new and cool things published to the site. If you like to stay up-to-date via email, then you should sign up here. Everyday Gear for Living a Focused Life » I thought...

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Sending Highlights & Notes from Matter to Obsidian (VIDEO)

Matter is a Read-It-Later service that integrates really well into Obsidian. So if you like to collect your newsletters, RSS feeds, and even Twitter threads into Matter, you can sync your digital highlights and notes into Obsidian using the official Matter Obsidian plugin. Here’s a short video on how to set it up. And if you prefer the text version,...

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