Bloody hell: I’ve been wrestling with the lawnmower for a couple of days now. I put a new deck belt on because something wasn’t working, and I noticed it looked pretty chopped up. That didn’t entirely solve the issue, and I came home from running a couple of errands to find Rhonda trying to mow with the clutch slipping off.
I got the clutch back on after some struggles in the blazing mid-day sun, but there’s still something up with the deck belt again. I’m gonna have to fart with it again in the very near future.
I reprised the excellent smoked baby back ribs and spareribs meal from Fathers Day; Rhonda was out running some errands earlier in the week, and found ribs on sale at one of the local butchers. She made Cooper sharp mac and cheese to go with. Tonight: the competition barbecue chicken thighs once again.
Ribs!
Tomorrow I’m taking a half day, and Rhonda and I are rolling over the bridge to Philly to see Tomahawk and the Melvins at Union Transfer in Spring Garden. I’ve never been to Union Transfer, and I’ve never seen Tomahawk, despite being a fan for the last twenty years. We have a five pm rez at Osteria, which is Marc Vetri’s pizzeria and casual dinner spot. It’s gonna be great I think.
Rhonda painted the deck stairs and railings this week. She used a Sherwin-Williams paint that really looks good. Is thick a way to describe paint? I’m not sure. But it looks great.
I regret missing last Sunday’s installment of Sunday Serial. I had a lot of fun on Saturday night with some old friends, and writing wasn’t even on the radar.
Foam Cannon
I used a foam cannon that I got from my dad some time ago for the first time today; Aaron and a buddy used it earlier in the week. I had to find the correct parts to connect it to my pressure washer, but it’s all connected and working now.
WRX
It was a lot of fun to foam up the cars and let the foam sit (the luxurious word in the car entertainment space is “dwell”) for a few minutes before rinsing them off. I was hoping that this would allow me to skip a formal hand washing, but the results were not that good. I’ll add this as a step before a good hand wash, and as an intermediate wash between hand washings.
Miata
303 Convertible Top Protectant
Back in the summer of 2003, I traded in my Ford Contour for a gently used 2000 Toyota MR2 Spyder. It was my first convertible car and I developed some neurotic anxiety about caring for the top. I used a specific Raggtopp cleaner and protectant back then in the hopes of extending the top’s life. I’m not nearly as anxious about Miata’s top, but I do think it wise to care for it to the degree that I can. In southern New Jersey, the summers are dry and hot, and there’s a lot of sun for a car to soak up. And I don’t have a garage, so winters will be rough on the top for sure.
To this end, I applied 303 Convertible Top Protectant after a good wash and treatment with 303’s cleaner. I’m looking forward to seeing beaded dew on the top in the morning.
PasteBot 3
PasteBot is one of my favorite clipboard history munger utilities for the Mac. I came to it via the iOS version, which has long since ceased to exist. I remember Merlin Mann raving about the iOS version, which compelled me to try it.
Version three moves to a modern take on subscription apps: you pay one price for the new version, and subsequent years will net you new updates that have dropped for a reduced price. Bike uses this model, but perhaps Agenda made it famous.
I’ve been looking hard at my subscriptions lately, being a little more fastidious about whether I really use the subs I have, and cancelling ones I don’t need. But PasteBot is a good app, and one I use a lot.
John Gruber, writing about Google’s “Personal Intelligence” feature:
But a big one for me — an inveterate note-taker — would be my notes app. I’d rather have an AI assistant know everything in my notes app than everything in my email.
I’m eagerly awaiting AI on the Mac/iPad/iPhone to be able to look at my files, calendar events, tasks in OmniFocus, and notes to provide assistance with traversing my day and synthesizing my collected knowledge. My version of the library in the Knowledge Navigator video is the driver seat of my 2013 Mustang GT, but pretty much everything else is aspirational.
I’ll go a step further and say that I’d like to for Notes to itself turn into a kind of chatbot. I created a Shortcut that uses Apples Private Cloud Compute to take a query and copy the results to the clipboard. I had originally set it up to create a new note in Notes.
And that’s partly how I think it should work: You open a new note in Notes, ask a question, and you can keep the whole conversation in the note, adding metadata later.
Another neat application of Private Cloud Compute is featured in a the new version of OmniOutliner, which is version six. One of the automations you can add to Outliner is to create an outline from your clipboard. My shortcut is perfect for getting an outline started on a new topic.
I’ve tried a number of different ways to harness automation to logging expense. Drafts has, for a long time, been the place I went for this kind of thing: I’ve used Drafts to log my rowing sessions, blood pressure, and activities while I was taking classes and completing internships. Drafts excels at this kind of thing.
Dan Moren at Six Colors wrote a post about how he updates a Numbers spreadsheet using a Shortcut, and thought it might make a good starting place for this task. My struggle with Drafts is inputting the information in the correct order; I wanted to record the transaction total, account I charged it to, the date, and a brief description of the purchase. The problem with that on Drafts for me was recalling the order of the fields, and inserting commas (it went to a CSV file).
Shortcuts is perfect for this kind of thing, and of course it works on all of my devices. I’m very likely to be out and about when shopping, such that my phone is the obvious place to capture an expenditure. But I do like having this on my Mac, too, because I often do purchase things while using it.
The modal dialog boxes prompt me for the correct input field, reducing the friction of logging an expense. Best of all, I can fire the shortcut after searching for it using Spotlight on any device.
One of the central improvements that computers bring to us is the ability to automate repetitive tasks. As a school psychologist, I did a lot of cobbling together applescripts and templates using merge features to automate some of my writing of reports, and to reduce the likelihood of mistakes. TextExpander similarly helped me with the massive writing burden of the job as well.
My job as a manager requires much less repetitive writing, although I still rely on a text expansion utility (currently Typinator) for a lot of repetitive writing (phone numbers, addresses, and some other things),
Writing here at Uncorrected, though, introduces some repetitive tasks that I sought to address using Shortcuts, and most recently, the support for Quick Actions in macOS Tahoe.
Rename Photos for Blog Posts
One of the coolest new features that employs AI that’s baked into macOS is harnessing the power of Private Cloud Compute. Entirely inspired by Jason Snell’s post on Six Colors, I put this shortcut together to use Private Cloud Compute to rename screenshots and photos I intend to post based on a description of the photo. Is it hard to rename a file so that the file name matches the content? Not really. But it can be repetitive. This one is specific to my Sunday Serial series, and it appends the date to the graphic asset, which is a practice I’ve been applying for a while now.
We were fixing to take Aaron back up to New Brunswick today, but the snow in the forecast is forcing us to wait until tomorrow. I am thankful for the all-wheel drive on the WRX. Our original plan was to roll up to New Brunswick yesterday and spend the night; I found a Marriott in Somerset and a nice little French bistro, Sophie’s. Aaron preferred getting in another day at home, though, so I cancelled the reservations and we hung around. He was hard at work on a model for his fraternity yesterday. We did the required errands and had cheese and salami at home with a growler of rosé. Rhonda and I have off from work tomorrow, so it’s no trouble either way.
Bellview Boreas Red Wine
It would be easy to let the merriment surrounding Bellview’s release of their new rosé overshadow a new dry red blend, but ahem: I draw your attention to their new Boreas. They describe it thus:
A medium bodied dry red blend of Cabernet Franc and Regent with an herbal taste on the tongue and a long, lasting finish.
Bellview Boreas
It’s pretty fruity up front, with a nice dry finish. We got a 500 ml growler last weekend and it was really good with dinner last week.
Hookmark Pal: Hookmark for iOS
Hookmark is a fascinating utility for the Mac. In short, it allows you to copy links from one file or application to another, and it is invaluable if you spend a lot of time managing various bits of data across applications on your Mac.
I’ll give you a simple example: Here’s my “Car Maintenance” project in OmniFocus:
OmniFocus Project
You can see in the project’s notes field, there’s a link to a folder on my Mac, “Maintenance.” There are lots of different files in that folder that I might need access too, including some how-tos, reference materials, and maintenance logs.
Similarly, you can link to files (even blocks of text in PDFs) using Hookmark. Here’s a screenshot of some specific files I linked (I linked the project to the files); invoking Hookmark shows the files I’ve linked to the project.
Hookmark Links
I can link emails from MailMate to tasks or projects, link Google Suite links to projects and tasks, and more. You can even send links to Instapaper. It’s a great service for keeping yourself organized, and I’m not sure I’m even scratching the surface of what it can do.
One of the central frustrations of being a Mac user who likes to use an iPad, though, is that many of the utilities that make the Mac so great aren’t available on the iPad. And that was a central limitation of using Hookmark until very recently, when CogZest introduced Hookmark Pal.
The upshot is that your Hookmark links work on your iOS devices. It’s called a “pal,” I suppose, because it’s not a universal app that works across all of your devices; Hookmark Pal gets you some of the features you depend on, without the full experience of using Hookmark on your Mac. It’s a welcome addition for sure.
A week back into the routine after a long holiday break! We’re having spritzes and cheese now; I have a pork tenderloin in the sous vide tank for tomorrow (I’ll grill it off before serving after a quick dunk in the tank again tomorrow; it will come out in about two hours and overnight in the fridge), and there are chicken thighs in the oven.
We had a fun weekend: out with the ‘rents for Joe, Sorayah, and Dad’s birthdays (bunch of January babies!) at Maplewood, then hot pot/Korean BBQ with Aaron for lunch yesterday. We made a trip to a vinyl shop he loves in the Hamilton Mall after lunch, too. We fancied going to Guitar Center, but Rhonda and I were meeting an old friend at Bellview for wine in the afternoon, so we had to cut Guitar Center out of the plans. Today was just groceries. I did take the dog for a walk, which was nice.
Bellview’s Dry Rosé
Rhonda and I met a friend at Bellview yesterday, and their new rosé, made with Chambourcin grapes, was on tap! That means it will be bottled soon, but on tap is the way to go. It’s been out of stock for a few months, so this was a very welcome development. I need a few more swigs to weigh in on the difference between this and other vintages, but it was familiar for sure.
Bellview Rosé
FlexTime
In addition to the excellent MarsEdit, Daniel Jailkut’s Red Sweater software offers the very cool FlexTime utility, a “versatile timer for repetitive activities.” I found myself, late last week, feeling especially overwhelmed by a crap ton of of urgent, open loops. OmniFocus is my central planning tool, but the challenge of overload is prioritizing, and sometimes, that means setting some time limits so that you can make some progress on a few projects.
I’ve written a bit here about how I deal with this aspect of productivity, most notably trying to plug into Neil Fiori’s Unschedule technique. OmniFocus’s Planned Dates feature helps tremendously with daily planning, but outside of allowing you to estimate how long something might take, it’s not a tool for timing.
There are no shortage of timers for the Mac and iOS timers, but Red Sweater makes some great stuff. I tried it out a few years ago, and I liked it, but only used it for a spell. I downloaded it again and am planning to try it out again.
FlexTime by Red Sweater Software
FlexTime lets you create a variety of timers and save them for reuse. You can specify a number of different activities per timer, and set notifications for each activity. You can even spit your timers out to Apple Music, which seems like a smart alternative to having the app run across platforms.
Top Pot Hot Pot and BBQ
Aaron and I first (finally!) tried hot pot about a year ago at Kung Fu Hot Pot, after a tour at the University of Delaware. We really enjoyed the experience, especially on a cold day. Our second visit occurred after a visit to Rutgers, also cold and drizzly, and we both agreed that the Happy Lamb was a superior experience to Kung Fu.
Yesterday, we headed to Mays Landing to try out Top Pot Hot Pot and BBQ while Aaron is still home on break. It, too, was exceptional.
Some niggles: the broth situation is such that there’s no easy way for two people to share broth; the pots are arranged such that they’re conveniently near one diner, not in the center of the table. This is to make room, of course, for the brazier, which takes center stage on their tables (and in the experience of having KBBQ at Top Pot). Hot pot or BBQ are $31.99 as of yesterday, but you can combine them Also, the vegetables, rice balls, and other non-meat goodies are ordered from the menu, which we didn’t prefer; it’s a lot of fun at Happy Lamb, for example, to go up to the buffet or ingredient station and pick out different root vegetables and rice balls (and all kinds of other things) that look good, whereas you have to ask for everything at Top Pot.
Top Pot Hot Pot
Top Pot does newbie diners a great service, however, by not only offering a fulsome selection of sauces, but also a display behind the buffet of sauces you can concoct for yourself. Similarly, there are some brief cooking directions and diagrams posted at each table. Like dining on phô, the experience of eating hot pot is different from your standard western dining situation. We are, happily, adventurous diners, but some know-how is appreciated to maximize the experience. To become an expert, learn the rules first.
Meats, before grilling
We had a couple of kinds of tongue, and really loved the version they prepare for hot pot (the BBQ preparation was less exciting), and there was a lemon pork belly we both adored. Everything was good, though. It was a really big lunch.
I leaned on this macmost video to set up this shortcut:
I spend a lot of time resizing and renaming pics for posts here on Uncorrected, and it’s exactly the kind of grunt work computers are good at automating. I get a kick out of using Private Cloud Compute for this. I generally try to name the files as descriptively as I can, and append the ISO date.
I mentioned last weekend that I was trying to replace the flushing components in the toilet upstairs. The problem I ran into was that I couldn’t spin the nuts off of the bolts in water tank; the metal used in the bolts was softened by all those years of submersion in water, I guess, and not even some strategic spritzes with Liquid Wrench helped.
I mentioned it to our superintendent at work (who was in the process of installing his own bathtub, which made my problem seem tiny), and he suggested using a hacksaw. I ended up using just a hacksaw blade, over a couple of sessions, to cut the bolts between the base of the commode and the tank.
It wasn’t fun but it’s done! We have a freshly refurbished can upstairs. I did the same for the downstairs bathroom years ago. So I can log another home repair to my spreadsheet. Regarding said spreadsheet, I just started it today to keep track of when I service or repair something so I can remember how long it’s been since I tangled with a wary structure, appliance, or some other thing that awaits my attention.
I do a lot of these things in part to save a buck, and to avoid the hassle of trying to find someone to come out and do them for me. I feel like most of my home repairs have a very imperfect version of doneness, as I’m not the handiest of fellas, and always have something in mind I’d rather be doing. But you can’t argue with feeling a sense of accomplishment having fixed something yourself.
Next Friday is another visit to New Brunswick to visit Aaron. I found a host of places to try for dinner, including some intriguing Portuguese joints. I’m second guessing not trying one of those spots (not that it’s too late) because I met a couple at a party last night, and she was from Sayreville. I not a teleologist but I do find such moments of serendipity intriguing. I think we’ll enjoy the Metuchen Inn, though. Looking forward to the visit and the inevitable stop (stops?) at Stokelan Winery.
Do I have to tell you that we’re enjoying some spritzes in this fine fall weather? Rhonda is toasting up some nachos to accompany them using some leftovers from the week.
Nachos
I hope you’re doing something that resonates with you from toes to dome. We only have this moment: the past is gone, and the future lies, uncertainly, in the moments, days, and years ahead.
Kagi Search
I’ve been curious about Kagi search since reading about it on Daring Fireball and listening to an interview with one of the developers. I’ve been using Duck Duck Go for a while, and Google, too, and the AI results I get with the latter really have started to bother me. I decided to try Kagi’s trial tier, and while not exciting by any stretch, I found myself very happy with the results I was getting, and when the generous demo bank of searches wore out, I couldn’t see myself going back. It seems a little wild to pay for a search engine, but as with RSS readers, the value proposition is hard to resist.
Path Finder
I’ve been trialing the Finder replacement Path Finder by Cocoatech for years now, but I never found a reason to purchase a license. It popped up on Bundlehunt so I bought a few for my Macs. It’s an interesting twist on the Finder. One of the features I really like is how it displays labels in a window; it’s much less subtle than the Finder, which I like, especially in looking at a folder organized using the Johnny.Decimal system, which I’m currently half-assing. I also really like the Path Navigator feature. Tahoe’s Finder enhancements have been welcome, though. I has a great Yoink-like feature, called the Drop Stack, that lets you move files without opening multiple windows.
Path Finder’s Labels
How Andre Agassi Beat Boris Becker
Andre Agassi was a rock star American tennis player who was divisive in terms of his fan base, but was always fun to watch. He evolved, from tennis rebel to statesman, during his career. This video is great, from the tennis angle and from the how-do-I-get-better angle.
I was in Friday fettle today at work, as Rhonda and I are off to visit Aaron for Rutgers Parents Weekend tomorrow. We plan to stop at Stokelan Winery on the way up. I made a couple of dinner reservations: The Frog and the Peach and Le Malt Lounge. I’m not sure what we’ll end up doing otherwise but it’s going to be a nice visit no matter what.
We nipped out with Joey and Sorayah for dinner at Cilantro, tableside guacamole and all. Rhonda and I split a bottle of Autumn Lake winery’s Alberino, which I read about at Uncorked. It was excellent. We all had ice cream after.
Autumn Lake WineryAutumn Lake AlberinoCilantro-carne-asada-rancheroCilantro SignageLa Bonita Ice CreamJoe and Sorayah
One thing I’ve been thinking about writing up is a post on making sure you put some joy in your to-do list app. For me, that’s OmniFocus: I’ve been storing wishlists of books, apps, clothes, and household items in projects that I keep on hold. And one that’s strictly for nerd endeavors. Tonight, I made a packing list for the weekend.
It’s easy to notice how easily ideas slip away from our minds. But this is a distraction: when you focus on this you do not see that the same ideas slipped in just as easily. And they’ll keep doing that.
Ideas are cheap. Catch them if you can, but it’s not really worth worrying about them much.
This is an inside-out observation consonant with mindfulness: Thoughts-good and bad-are temporary appearances in our consciousness. (Non-dualists would add that we don’t “think” them from a central self or cognitive operator.)
While it can be frustrating to forget “good” ideas, it is inversely helpful that we are able to forget “bad” thoughts, too. Thoughts come, and thoughts go. You don’t have to identify with them.
On May 1st, Joe Kissel delighted Mac nerds who have specific email requirements by announcing the launch of MailMaven, a power-user-focused email application for the Mac that extends SmallCubed’s dedication to managing email on the Mac.
I’ve been test driving MailMaven since the public beta release; today, I plunked down the digital equivalent of 45 USD for a license after a generous trial period. I have a 67% increase next year to look forward to should I choose to continue to use MailMaven. I’ve enjoyed the beta so much that I wanted to go for it.
Smart Folders
The first feature I look for in an email client is Smart Folders: they are how I set up my email clients in my own particular preference, which I’ve written about before. A quick summary of how I manage email:
A folder showing today’s inbox contents;
A folder showing yesterday’s inbox;
A folder showing this week’s inbox ;
A folder showing last week’s inbox.
Once a message is archived or moved to another folder, it’s not something I see unless I search for it. I try to keep these folders pruned so older messages don’t pile up. It’s aspirational.
MailMaven supports Smart Folders. For my use case, I can create account-specific smart folders that fit the bill, so this checks off the Smart Folders Box for me. It too supports compound rules, so I am able to combine my iCloud and personal Gmail accounts into “home” smart folders, and then a separate set for work. I like it.
Smart Folders
Review
MailMaven’s Review feature set is unique. It’s a list of enhanced saved searches, including all of your unread messages, and then a menu of recent emails, organized into received today, yesterday, this week, etc. As with project tagging, these are monolithic smart folders that don’t make any distinction between accounts. You can certainly create your own smart folders to fit your use case.
A clever twist in the Review section of MailMaven’s feature set is the eponymous “review” folder. You can tag messages for review at a later date you specify, and even organize messages by those for which you are awaiting a reply.
You can set a review date to a message in MailMaven; you pick a date, which supports natural language, so you can assign a review date and it will appear in the Review pane. Here, a Smart Folder like setup presents your email grouped by Today, tomorrow, past due, future, and more. It’s ambitious–and evidently in progress.
Tagging
MailMaven offers tagging as well. I can set keywords and flags to messages, which isn’t terribly new in the world of email. An interesting feature, though is its integration with OmniFocus and Things. MailMaven will read your projects from either (or both) apps and allows you to tag messages with a project. This doesn’t write any data to OmniFocus, in my case, but you can view your email correspondence by project, which can come in handy. My gripe about this right now is that, in MailMaven, all of the projects are in a list, and if you have a lot of projects, it’s not easy to scan, and I can’t tell what order they appear in. I’m looking forward to this feature’s evolution.
MailMaven/OmniFocus Integration
Whereas apps like Spark and MailMate will send a message to OmniFocus, MailMaven takes a more Outlook-like approach to project management. Once enabled in the Tags section of MailMaven’s settings, MailMaven will import the names of your OmniFocus projects. Associating a message or messages will then be tagged with the project name. You can then review your email in MailMaven organized by project, which is a tremendous affordance.
Tagging Pane
I like this feature (and find myself using it daily) but wonder about its direction. I review projects in OmniFocus, so I like everything associated with the project to be in OmniFocus or at least linked using notes and HookMark. So this is a different style of interaction. However, when I need to find an email associated with a project, I have found myself browsing in the project view instead of searching reactively.
Notifications and Focus Modes
MailMaven doesn’t currently support macOS’s Focus Modes; I was hoping it would, as Mimestream and Spark both allow me to use a monolithic email client but filter notifications for for work and home, as appropriate to where I am and what time it is. This isn’t on their roadmap for the app, either, although it’s a popular feature request.
Performance
I can’t be picky with a beta version, but MailMaven feels pretty slow compared to MailMate, Mimestream, and Mail. MailMate and Mimestream are focused in a way MailMaven isn’t, to be fair: the former is IMAP only, while Mimestream is (currently) a Gmail client, while MailMaven supports multiple protocols. MailMaven is, however, more expensive (after the first year) for new subscribers than either of those applications, so as the app develops, I’m hoping to see that it can be multi-protocol and fast.
Search
MailMaven opens a separate window for search, which isn’t expected behavior, but it has its merits. I don’t like it as much as I like search in MailMate, but it is a more directive version of search and so is friendlier to newer users. It’s much slower than MailMate in my usage, but it’s also capable of trawling multiple accounts, and also not restricted to a local mailbox in the way that MailMate works. MailMaven has cues in the UI to help you focus your search.
Search
Conversation Panel
In the same way that MailMaven’s search happens in a second window, there is a Conversation Panel that shows your conversation threads. This is perfect for users like me, who prefer to see a straight list of messages organized by when they hit my inbox, rather than comb through a threaded list.
On larger displays, you can simply leave this window open, which is how I discovered the feature: I plugged my laptop into a 27” display at my desk at work, and I toggled it open by accident. In a situation such as this, there’s enough screen real estate to leave it open all the time, and I just love being able to glance up and see the thread. And at home, on my 32” Samsung, there’s plenty of room for both the main application window and the Conversation Panel.
Conversation Panel
This does not work as well on a MacBook. On a 13” inch display, you want every bit of screen real estate available for the app proper. I attribute my long laptop-only existence to why it took me so long to go back to using apps in windowed mode on the Mac, and why the iPad never seriously bothered me for its lack of Macness.
In the spirit of writing is thinking, I like a desktop set up hands down.
Clicking on a message will show you the conversation history, but you needn’t cruft up your main application window with this if you don’t need it. I’ve always resisted threaded views because they complicate the messages list. So while I might switch to the conversation view in MailMate, for example, to find a message, I never keep that layout. MailMaven’s Conversation Panel obviates this decision entirely.
MailMaven supports two viewing modes: “Snippets” and Table View. The Snippets view looks like Mail or many other mail applications: A list of messages, with a preview (you can set the number of lines from zero to 4) in a central column, with the message itself appearing in the right pane. It’s fine, and conventional, but it’s not my preferred view.
Table view arranges your mail messages as a tight list in the main viewing pane, and shows a preview below this list. This look, too, should be familiar to anyone who grew up using an email application before the days when computer displays were widescreen.
Snippits ViewTable View
My particular preference in MailMate is to turn off the preview pane completely (two-pane view) so that I can only see the table list of messages. Because I use smart folders so heavily, this makes the day’s email obligation look shorter. MailMaven, as of version one, will not support turning off the preview pane (I emailed SmallCubed, and they said that they are planning a feature in a future version, but not version one). This is due to the fact that the messages controls are attached to the message window, which makes sense.
Favorites
Favorites in MailMaven is a genius idea, but the one I understood last. You can add any inbox, folder, tag collection, Smart Folder, to Favorites and create your own email dashboard. Once I realized how useful this feature would be, I populated it with:
My. Three email accounts’ inboxes
Home and Work Today folders
Anything I’ve flagged for followup
Preferred Projects
Today and Tomorrow’s Review folders
I live in this pane, even though its utility was lost on me at first. I generally work out of my Today Smart Mailbox in MailMate, but like Mail, the default behavior there is to show your account with discoverable subdirectories. In truth, I don’t usually need to see that arborescent list as I work; I’m usually looking at today’s input, and I search if I need anything else. This favorites setup allows me to switch between today’s mail for both work and home accounts, see my most-used flag, and a few other views that I can use throughout the day. It’s pretty exciting.
MailMate Favorites View
The Final Word
MailMaven is an ambitious and opinionated email application. Version one of MailMaven doesn’t sport every feature that SmallCubed is planning. What hurts right now for me is the lack of more robust OmniFocus support and support for Hookmark. But the fundamental rethinking of an email application, in a landscape rife with free alternatives, is heartening and inspirational. For power users, it’s a must-try app. And a Mac-assed one at that.
