The Mac is a Place I Go

John Gruber, on a recent version of the Cortex podcast, described the Mac as a “place” that he goes. It was a charming description that most nerds can identify with: that sense of falling in and getting lost just playing around. I don’t get why to-do items wouldn’t be a great place for that, though. OmniFocus (and Things, and Todoist) are all joys to use.

Additionally, I was inspired to go back to a Shortcut I was trying to create: grab the URL and name of a Safari page and create a new note in Notes with said data. Gruber mentioned using something like this in IconFctory’s Tot. I’d given up on making this work but dove back in. After some chatGPT help, I came up with this:

Shortcut steps
Shortcut steps

Dr. Drang’s post on the Tot Shortcut was a big help.

Cortex 169: State of the Workflow