Sunday Serial: CoTypist, Witch for macOS, and Typinator Extensions and Sets

There’s some stormy weather out there today; when I got up, I’d say we had about 4” of snow already. It’s still coming down, too. Rhonda and I both did some sweeping and shoveling to keep up on things, and I wanted to lift the windshield wiper arms on the cars up so they don’t get frozen to the windshields. We could’t even put in an order for groceries for store pickup yesterday; we had to drive over and prowl the aisles at Shop Rite like animals. We’re both off work tomorrow, too.

Aaron sent a picture from campus:

Stay safe and warm, and I hope you don’t have to do any driving today. Rhonda made a bolognese sauce yesterday while we were home, and we’ll be having that for dinner.

CoTypist

CoTypist is a macOS app that suggests words and sentences based on what you’re writing. It uses AI to learn your style and make suggestions. I found it during one of the Mac app bundle deals earlier this year. It’s in beta, so it’s free right now. It’s pretty interesting to try out; a trail of suggestions follow your cursor as you type, and you can accept words or sentences as they appear.

You can opt to let CoTypist learn from you as you accept suggestions, which (the app says) is stored locally on your Mac. Like TextExpander, it calculates the time you’ve saved using CoTypist. I ran into an issue where CoTypist’s default behavior–expanding suggestions as you type using the tab key–conflicted with OmniFocus’s behavior of using the tab key to move to the next field. Thoughtfully, though, you can exclude CoTypist from any app you want, or just disable the tab key per app.

Witch vs TabTab

I wrote about Witch in a previous Sunday Serialpost. It’s a utility for the Mac by Many Tricks that extends the default command-tab keyboard shortcut to let you switch between apps, yes, but also documents and browser tabs. As Many Tricks describes Witch, it lets you “command-tab everything.”

One of my favorite features is the ability to search for open documents or Safari tabs. I’ve been using TabTab for a while and I love it, but there’s been an issue with the license manager and it thinks I’m using all of the seats I purchased (when I should have one seat left).

So I’ve been using Witch on my desktop Mac, and having to fart around with it a bit made me realize how useful (and customizable) Witch is. I set it up so that the keyboard shortcut I would normally use to invoke TabTab is now a shortcut to Witch. Once invoked, I tap the s key to search for browser tabs or documents. It’s really handy.

Typinator Extensions and Sets

For no particular reason, I replaced TextExpander with Typinator a while back. It’s in the same class of app or utility, but I find it a little more Mac-like, which breaks my heart a little because TextExpander started out as a really simple, light Mac-only utility.

I installed the version 10 beta today, and setting things up, starting poking around their “sets” feature and the web page dedicated to their collection. I love the Dates 1.0 set. There’s a cool emoji set, too; as with so many other things, though, I’m very used to using Launchbar for emoji.

Ergonis is coming out with an iPhone version of Typinator soon. One of the pain points of relying on utility apps like this is their either total absence on the iPhone or iPad, or in this case of text expansion apps, they’re available as keyboard applications. I don’t find the act of switching keyboards on the iPhone to worth the effort, so I don’t generally use them.

Notes on AI in Notes and Outlines

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.

Logging Expenses with Shortcuts

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.

A Shortcut to Rename Photos for Posts Using Private Cloud Compute

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.

Update: this was a helpful video, too.

Shortcut using Private Cloud Compute to Name Photos

Sunday Serial: Bellview Boreath, Hookmark Pal, and Hiraeth

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.

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:

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.

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.

Hookmark Pal for iPhone and iPad – Hookmark
App Store

Hiraeth

it’s bittersweet when they leave, but a joy to watch them grow.

Sunday Serial: Bellview Winery Dry Rosé, FlexTime for the Mac, and Top Pot Hot Pot

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.

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 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 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.

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.

OmniOutliner 6

Ken Case, at the OmniGroup blog, announcing version six of the company’s venerable outliner:

One of the interesting problems we’ve been pondering is how best to link to documents in native apps. We’ve spent some time refining our solution to that problem, Omni Links, which are now shipping first in OmniOutliner 6. With Omni Links, we can link to content across all our devices, and we can share those links with other people and other apps.

With OmniOutliner, these powerful Apple Intelligence language models are fully under your control. Like all language models, they’re not perfect oracles by any means—and they’re not fundamental to using OmniOutliner. But sample plug-ins leveraging Apple Intelligence are ready for immediate one-click installation, and plug-in authors can integrate these language models with OmniOutliner in all sorts of creative ways.

Two great tentpole features, and a clutch of improvements.

Introducing OmniOutliner 6

Sunday Serial: Callsheet, ExtraBar, and Georges DuBoeuf Beajoulais Nouveau

There’s nothing like the last Sunday at the end of a vacation to inspire the Sunday Scaries! Here’s a list of things to check out to ease your re-entry into the world of work, if that awaits you. I kept up my exercise routine but I do need the routine to keep me on track!

Today’s Joey’s 21st birthday too!

Callsheet

I was enjoying Upgrade’s Upgradies episode over the break, and they mentioned Casey Liss’s Callsheet, which I had tried a while back but never really took to. The truth is, though, that like books, I do need a place to park a kind of TV Show/Movie wishlist. I’ve been trying Sofa for a number of years, and I like it, mostly, except it doesn’t lend itself to the most obvious setup for my use case: a list of things I’d like to watch, and then an archive of things I have watched. Sofa has branched out from TV and Movies to books, restaurants, and all manner of other interests.

Callsheet is a more focused app, showing you popular television shows and movies, which you can pin for later viewing. Callsheet will help you find where to watch a show or movie, and you can dig deep into an actor’s oeuvre if you’re curious about where you saw what’s-his-name before.

Interestingly, Mike and Jason crapped on Tapestry, which is an app category that, too, initially found mystifying, but found myself returning to time and again. As I’ve written, I’ve set up the New Reeder and subscribed to it, as it’s a lot less expensive than Tapestry and I still love the original Reeder.

ExtraBar

I’ve really been enjoying Amerpie by Lou Plummer; his tech-focused blog is an endless stream of app recommendations. He highlighted ExtraBar, which proposes an alternative to utilities like Bartender, Ice, and Barbee.

There’s no way to test drive the app, which seems a little scummy to me. I did buy one seat to try it out, and it’s not a simple swap from, say, Bartender to ExtraBar. You have to know a bit out apps that support links, such as OmniFocus, to start setting things up.

This is one of those apps that I’m going to want to get a lot of use out of, but will struggle to find a place for. Just a hunch.

Georges DuBoeuf 2025 Beaujolais Nouveau

I coworker gifted me a bottle of this just before the holiday, and I was terribly excited to try it after many years. I do believe this varietal was my introduction to red wine, and it really is a great place to dip your toes into the sea of red wine. It’s not to be drunk aged, just glugged after bottling. It’s a lighter, fruitier red, without being a sweet wine. We had some with our grilled chicken thighs last night in fact. Such a fun wine.

RSS Reader Shootout

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, remains the backbone of digital newshounds across the web. Podcasts, too, depend upon RSS for distribution. Google used to maintain one of the most popular and best RSS readers, Google Reader, but scuttled it in 2013. Via Nicolas Magand, here’s Cory Doctorow on RSS:

Your RSS reader doesn’t (necessarily) have an algorithm. By default, you’ll get everything as it appears, in reverse-chronological order.

Does that remind you of anything? Right: this is how social media used to work, before it was enshittified. You can single-handedly disenshittify your experience of virtually the entire web, just by switching to RSS, traveling back in time to the days when Facebook and Twitter were more interested in showing you the things you asked to see, rather than the ads and boosted content someone else would pay to cram into your eyeballs.

If you ever bristled at how your social media feeds have targeted the content you see, you should check out RSS instead. The Mac and iOS/iPadOS ecosystem remains a great place to use an array of RSS reader apps.

Here are some of my favorites.

NetNewsWire

NNW is the GOAT! I remember using NetNewsWire Lite back when spending money on software was extravagent, and discovering that you could make your own CSS sheets to style the entries. That was a long time ago; NetNewsWire disappeared for a while after Brent Simmons sold it to NewsGator, where nothing happened to it, but he resurrected it after gaining the rights back to it (NewsGator sold it to Black Pixel).

NetNewsWire is a great RSS reader, and it’s free; Brent won’t even take money for it. It supports a number of RSS feed reader services, but also supports local-only accounts and iCloud sync. It looks like a Mac-assed Mac app, with a menu of feeds to the left, articles list in the center, and the articles themselves on the right side. This layout makes pretty good sense on a Mac, but it’s not necessarily the best option for smaller devices (or form factors). If your preferences in RSS reading are to focus on the articles list and article bodies only, or even just swiping from article to article, you can set up NetNewsWire that way too.

Unread

Unread, since its debut, has always been an iPad and iPhone-first product. It places a premium on look and feel, and presents your feed to you in a clean list, but once you click in to a story, it feels very natural to page from article to article instead of returning to the articles list. It’s a tap- and gesture-based interface, which makes perfect sense on the iPad (which is how I first started using it). The larger the screen, though, the less sense Unread makes. 13” iPad users take note.

Unread is available as a free version, and it’s incredibly full-featured in its free mode as long as you’re connecting it to a third-party service, such as FeedBin. You can use the free version to sync your RSS subscriptions between devices, but if you want to take advantage of read-it-later service integration, change the icon, and have a faster (cached) reading experience, the subscription is a good option. Plus, you’re supporting an independent software developer.

Navigating in Unread is a gesture-rich experience, full of swipes between panels instead of buttons and controls exposed in the UI. With Unread, you swipe from screen to screen (folders, feeds, articles), and to get to share menu items , adding subscriptions, searching, and settings. It’s a touch-driven interface in a way that’s uniquely iPad and iPhone. It can feel a bit mysterious swiping around for preferences or other controls, but it’s a great way to read on an iPhone or smaller touchscreen. The interface does not scale well to 13” iPads, though.

I have been a longtime Unread user and favor it on the iPad. Its interface allows the reader to effortlessly focus on one article at a time, and it stands apart in terms of look and feel.

Interestingly, there’s a Mac version of Unread. Contrary to the iOS version’s strong opinion on design and presentation, Unread for the Mac is more standard experience compared to the iOS version. For this, I am glad: what makes Unread work on a touchscreen would make it weird on a Mac. It has the most interesting theme collection of any of the Mac apps in this post, and I do find myself using it on the Mac. (I will confess, though, that I don’t read RSS on the Mac very much.)

Even if you don’t use Unread, the share extension is incredibly useful. If I am on a page that offers an RSS feed, I can use the extension to subscribe in Unread, and even file into the FeedBin tag or tags for focused reading.

ReadKit

ReadKit, when it came out, put me in mind of Vienna when it first came out. It was pretty bare bones at first, and I didn’t give it much of a spin before bonding it for other applications. But version 3 on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad is great, with a tasteful theme implementation and support for lots of third-party services. ReadKit has the cleanest minimal layout, and is my favorite on the iPad mini.

Reeder

There’s a new version of Reeder out for Mac/iPadOS/iOS that varies from what is now known as Reeder (Classic); the latter app is a great version of an RSS reader, and was one of the first killer apps for iOS. I can’t ignore Reader Classic in this article, as it’s still supported and available, and possibly my favorite on iPad.

Reeder Classic was one of the first must-have apps for the iPhone for nerds. Developer Silvio Rizzi has continued to update the app, and offers Mac and iPad specific versions that are excellent.

Reeder Classic on iPad is a delightful whoosh of animation in the user interface. Of the apps featured here, it’s the most bespoke in its use of custom animation. Compared especially to NetNewsWire and ReadKit, Reeder has a design language all its own.

Reeder Classic only has light and dark modes, with some toggles in between to customize your experience; you can tweak font and font size and a few other details, but unlike ReadKit or Unread, themes are less transformative.

A word about Reeder’s new incarnation: it is looking to be more than your RSS reader. It wants to be your hub for everything you read on the internet. And I think that’s a laudable, if lofty, goal. Going to one app to see all of your news and interests is compelling in theory, but that app has to be feature-rich and be a preferable way to consume said content. Reeder will grab all of the links you throw at it and treat them as a bookmarking service, read it later service, RSS service, YouTube aggregator, and Reddit aggregator. It doesn’t do this using your accounts, however; you point it towards a favorite subreddit, for example, and browse the postings. You can’t interact with the content using the platform’s affordances (ie upvoting Reddit posts). If you’ve tried Icon Factory’s Tapestry, you are familiar with Reeder’s feature set.

I think this new version of Reeder shows a lot of promise. It’s not for me by itself right now (I don’t think it’s a better RSS reader than either NetNewsWire or Unread), but it’s an exciting rethinking of what a news reader can be. One of my favorite features is being to shunt content (such as links) using a share sheet action from Safari to drop articles into Reeder for later review.

Fiery Feeds

Fiery Feeds is an interesting RSS reader. Like the others mentioned, it supports Feedbin and other backend services. It offers its own smart searches recipe system as well, and a couple of the demo searches–“Hot Links” and “Low Frequency”–are interesting presentations of your feeds.

Fiery Feeds has some of the most interesting layout options available on the iPad, and for that reason alone, is worth a download.

Actions and Extensions

Finding a new feed is always exciting, and adding it to your RSS readers is, ideally, a low-friction event. The manual way–long-pressing on the link and copying the URL, switching to your RSS reader, and pasting in the URL–is a fine way to collect new feeds, but some of the RSS apps I’ve been using include either Actions or Extensions to automate the process.

Both NetNewsWire and Fiery Feeds reveal their application as a Favorite in the Sharing Actions list when you long-press on a feed URL; Unread offers to subscribe to the feed for you using a share extension. Unread will also allow you to save an article to its read it later service, which requires a paid subscription. Readkit offers something similar, but I don’t use read-it-later services in my RSS applications (I like Safari’s just fine).

Themes

Unread brings its iOS-style color themes over to the Mac; there are a bunch of dark and light themes with different colors to suit just about any taste. NetNewsWire and Reeder use macOS’s light and dark themes, but NetNewsWire supports separate themes for the article pane (where you read an article). This invokes the original’s support for CSS and fond memories of goofing off during meetings cobbling themes. Inspecting the .nnwtheme package reveals that this is exactly what they are. The other readers feature a variety of color schemes in their appearances panes, but they’re more subtle than Unread’s visual overhauls. Fiery Feeds stands out, however, not only because of the themes supported (you can create your own or download themes from their directory), but because of the number of inventive layouts you can specify for your device. It’s a great affordance to scale from larger devices to smaller devices.

Syncing

All of the RSS readers I’ve tried support syncing with a number of popular RSS services (I use Feedbin) if you like to use a back-end service. iCloud sync is also included. If you wanted a completely free solution across all of your Apple devices, NetNewsWire and Reeder Classic will do the trick.

Freemium

ReadKit only allows you to subscribe to up to 20 feeds on the free tier. Unread offers a wealth of customization options with a sub, but it’s very full featured without one. You can’t pay for NetNewsWire even if you wanted to, and while that would normally give me pause, knowing the developer, Brent Simmons. I suspect it will be around for a long time.

Feature	NetNewsWire	Unread	Reeder	ReadKit	Fiery Feeds
Sharing Action or Extension	Action	Extension	No	No	Action
Hookmark	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
iCloud Sync	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Mac & iOS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pricing	Free	Freemium	Free	Freemium	Freemium
Themes	Yes (Articles)	Yes	Light/Dark	Yes	Yes
Timeline Sync	No	No	Yes	No	No
Widgets	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

Conclusions

I ultimately don’t like any one RSS reader more than another enough to declare One Reader to Rule Them All; I do like NetNewsWire on the Mac best of all, but Unread’s Mac version is a solid implementation of a more traditional Mac app interface, too, and I often find myself using it. On the iPad Mini and iPhone, I probably like Unread the most, because it’s the most expressly designed for a touchscreen, but on a larger iPad, I find myself gravitating towards Reader Classic; on a large screen, Unread doesn’t scale and there’s a lot of wasted space. ReadKit is solid on any iOS screen.

The New Reeder is perhaps the most interesting and adventurous design in that it supports more than just RSS. It is, it a sense, a post-RSS reading app: it’s designed to be a central hub for a variety of information sources, including Reddit and YouTube in addition to RSS. It’s a more manual curation process of disparate streams you want to follow; it breaks out of the mode of consuming content via singular apps connected to specific services.

Sunday Serial: The Week Between 2025

It’s been a quiet few days since Christmas here in our bucolic corner of South Jersey. Friday was just lazing about, and yesterday was a quick trip to Bellview for some wine and cheese before sushi with Aaron (Joe was working). My morning have been punctuated by reading a bit and then farting around with my Mac before exercising. We’re going to cook our “free” ham from Shop Rite today, since we didn’t need the turkey when we qualified for that.

Fishwife Slow-Smoked Mackerel with Chili Flakes

I’ve been grabbing all manner of canned fish for our winery trips; it’s a chance to pile on some protein and avoid some of the carbs that might otherwise tempt me. I’ve see this Fishwife brand at ShopRite a bunch of times, and while the art on the box is fetching, the price has put me off. They’re on sale right now and I grabbed a can of the mackerel and the sardines; Aaron and I split the mackerel yesterday at Bellview while Rhonda watched in horror. Simply the best canned fish I’ve had to date. I’m going to stock up today when we run over for some provisions.

Apple Fitness+ Yoga

I have an estranged friend who used to swear by yoga for both fitness and mental health. I tried it a few times by awkwardly watching workouts on my iPad in the basement, and I liked it enough to get a cheap yoga mat. I tried a few workouts back in 2022, and the idea hit me a couple of weeks ago–this would be a nice diversion from the usual rowing grind. I tried a 40-minute workout and loved every second of it.

I recalled being impressed at the reported calorie burn back in 2022 when I tried some Yoga workouts, and was disappointed with the report from my most recent workouts. Maybe being 230+ pounds makes that kind of exercise more calorically intensive. Still fun though.

Fitness app screenshot showing workout sessions and calorie burn for December 2022 and November 2022.

Fitness app screen showing workout sessions and calorie burn for December 2025 and November 2025.

Melty Brie Plates

Rhonda’s been making these melty brie plates since we had one at Cedar Rose winery not long ago. It was our favorite at Bellview until they stopped serving it. We got some brie at Bagliani’s yesterday, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we had one later today.

Shortcut to Rename a File Using Private Cloud Compute

I leaned on this macmost video to set up this shortcut:

A Shortcut to Automate Naming Files for my Website

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.

Essential Software for 2026

Looking back at the applications I rely on for work and personal things, here’s at list of the Mac, iPad, and iPhone applications I see myself using going into 2026. I’ve been cobbling these lists together for years! Stalwarts and new apps abound.

Ulysses

I tried Ulysses again after a couple of trials that never resulted in me subscribing. I realized that it’s close to perfect for my needs for writing here on Uncorrected. I resisted the idea of a database-based app instead of just using whatever I wanted (iAWriter, Typora, BBEdit) organized into folders in the Finder, but it does a good job of posting with pictures to WordPress. I had to learn the hard way that something breaks down on the trip from Ulysses to WordPress if I don’t reduce the file sizes, a problem I don’t have using MarsEdit on the Mac. There’s a Shortcut I discovered that I can use to get photos out of Photos and resize/covert them for WordPress. Pretty great. Ulysses also looks awesome and feels at home on the Mac and the iPad. It has useful organization features. I love this app from tail to snout.

Notes

So. Many. Notes. Apps. I’ve tried so many: Bear, iAWriter, DevonThink, Drafts, OneNote, EverNote, Alternote, Editorial, NVAlt… Along wit to-do apps, notes apps are their own entertainment industry masking as productivity. That’s not to say a good notes app can’t help you be productive; they absolutely can. Commitment is the key.

I tried Notes’ Smart Script out when it debuted on one of the iPadOS 18 betas and, while I had embraced (or resigned myself) to using Onenote after moving back to the Mac from Windows, Smart Script compelled me to make the move. It turns out, Notes is great in a lot of other ways, too: there’s a wiki link-like function now, and the formatting is limited but focused.

An inspiration for narrowing and focusing, reducing options:

Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it. Ultimately, the only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one’s life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of commitment to one place, one belief, or (gulp) one person. –Mark Manson, the Subtle Art…

One thing I hate about Notes is the general indifference to folders. You can next notes up to five levels deep, but Notes won’t search for a folder if you organize that way. It’s terribly painful to file notes if you let them get out of hand for a while. I hope they make it easier one day. I hold up DEVONThink’s filing capabilities in my mind as the gold standard for how you should be able to file in an application.

Safari

In the same vein, I don’t really browser hop much, but I have tried to employ more of Safari’s affordances. First on the list is the Reading List: It’s ubiquitous across your Apple devices, and offers a great reading mode. Using Profiles has made keeping work and home stuff separate. And it’s still fast. I have Shortcuts and AppleScripts and more that automate Safari for me. It’s always running. I confess to having great affection for the old Camino browser, which was I think the first Cocoa browser to debut on Mac OS X back in the early days, when we longed for non-Carbon, pure Cocoa experiences on our Macs. But it eventually went away, and happily, Apple debuted Safari.

Focus Modes

Not an app, I know, but a macOS/iOS feature: in combination with luminaries like Safari, OmniFocus, and Fantastical, I’m able to narrow distractions and, ahem, focus depending upon my context. I have a work focus, personal, weekend, vacation, and sleep focus, all of which I use daily. I’m hoping MailMaven will soon support focus modes.

Focus Modes allow you to set application-level restrictions on notifications you get from applications depending upon the time of day, location, or other criteria. I can make sure that I don’t see work email notifications when I’m on vacation, and likewise hide personal notifications when I’m at work. I can hide my work to-do list in OmniFocus on the weekends, but make sure work items are front and center during the work week. The only thing about Focus Modes that I don’t like is that I waited so long to use them.

MailMaven

I cancelled my Mimestream subscription in June because I was pretty sure that I was going to move to MailMaven. I have been using it for just about everything, home and work. I do still love MailMate, and despite the lure of having all of my email in the thoughtfully crafted MailMaven, I don’t see myself moving away from it for work email. But there’s a lot to like with MailMaven, and I keep it running on my desktop Mac all day.

Moves

I try a lot of Mac utilities when something looks like it would scratch an itch. I tried Moves with little expectation that it would stick, but I have to say, I really miss it when it’s not running (which is never), and one of the first things I miss when I use my iPad docked is Moves.

Moves lets you move and resize windows on your Mac using the trackpad and a keyboard shortcut: no more click and hold to drag and resize. It doesn’t sound like it, but It’s surprisingly useful. Essential, no less.

Kagi Search + Assistant

I knew well before I ran out of “enough searches to get you going” that I liked Kagi enough to consider a subscription. What I didn’t anticipate was how much I like the AI assistant. You can switch AI models, and it is blissfully free of the obsequious compliments Copilot was buttering me up with. I made a shortcut of the URL and saved it as an app on my iPhone and iPad Home Screen, and things are just ducky.

Yoink

I don’t care if it’s been on the list year after year: Yoink is infrastructure for me. I constantly drag files to the shelf and share or otherwise move them. I just love it. I wish I could figure out how to make use of it on iOS and iPad, but it’s enough on its own on the Mac.

OmniFocus and Planned Dates

My strategy with OmniFocus, for a long time, was to flag tasks that I considered most urgent, and ideally to be completed during the week, and the defer those I didn’t think I’d be able to work on that day.

That didn’t always happen, but that’s not the point. A new feature introduced this year, Planned dates, let me continue this practice, but further winnow my list (using a Perspective) by assigning planned dates instead of (mis)using defer dates. OmniFocus users have always known that using defer dates this way was a hack, but it did its trick. Planned Dates rescue the otherwise-useful defer date feature, preserving its utility.

Planned dates aren’t due dates; there’s no suggestion that this task must get done today. It’s exactly as it sounds: I’m planning on doing this today. If I don’t? I can move the Planned date. It’s a great way to plan your day and your week, and you can easily create perspectives that show you your planned tasks, separated by the day you plan to do them. You can hide everything except for your today list, and poof: suddenly, you have the OmniFocus you’ve been wanting for years. It’s such a small thing, but emblematic of the purposeful, thoughtful way that OmniGroup iterates on its applications.

I’ve tried Things, Asana, and ToDoist, to name my most notable digressions, but I always come back to OmniFocus. Planned dates make it hard to imagine leaving ever again. It’s an app that harbors lots of things I don’t necessarily want to do, but am obliged to do; OmniFocus brings peace of mind when you feel overwhelmed, and its a joy to use every day.

TabTab

One of the things I liked about using Edge and Chrome during my Windows phase was tab search; you tap a key command, and either browser will give you a vertically oriented list of your open tabs, which you can search.

Safari has the same feature, but I don’t love it; it shows a tile board of tabs, which takes up way more information than I need. I really just need to see the title of the URL, and a dense list works just fine.

There are a handful of ways to recreate the Chrome or Edge experience in Safari, if that’s your browser of choice, but I really like TabTab the best. You get way more in your search results than just Safari tabs, but it looks great and the search works. It’s got a great animation upon being invoked.

Glass

I signed up for Glass years ago but never subscribed. With my renewed interest in taking pictures and sharing them online, I thought that I should check out Glass again. I love the idea of Glass and its effectiveness of keeping a lid on the photo shitposting you often get with social media. Glass users seem to pick some of their best work to share, and the service itself offers you a chance to see photos categorized (wide angle, landscape, long exposure, for example) without the user necessarily having to tag his or her samples. You can even view pics organized by camera models or lenses, which can be helpful if you’re curious about how a lens or body might meet your wants and needs.

New Reeder

If I recall correctly, the new Reeder came out before Tapestry. I tried it and even subscribed before cancelling the subscription, and then when Tapestry came out, I tried it, too, and realized that it was pretty cool that the developer of one of my favorite RSS readers had come out with a rev to the venerable Reeder before IconFactory released Tapestry.

Both apps enable you to add feeds of many stripes to the app: RSS feeds, sure, but Reddit feeds, YouTube feeds, and more. It’s a more manual configuration experience, but it’s a great way to curate different kinds of feeds. It hasn’t replaced RSS for me, but it’s a cool distillation of RSS feeds and other content I don’t want to miss. Reeder is a steal compared to Tapestry, so I went back and hit the subscription button

Bike

I will always have a text editor of some stripe running on my Mac. I generally try to use Notes for this type of writing, but there are times when I need to start writing from left to write, top to bottom, and a text editor seems like the way to go. It’s been BBEdit, it’s been TextMate, it’s been Drafts… there have been many. Recently, it’s been Bike, because I love to use outliners, but Bike will let you ignore that mode of writing and just scrawl away in rich text. I just love it and I use it all the time. I find Jesse’s stuff fascinating and inspiring and simple.

Typinator

I don’t have a good reason to switch from TextExpander; it’s a fine app. I have an old subscription at the intro rate, back when Smile bought them and suffered the umbrage of a thousand raging nerds who couldn’t believe it went from free to subscription. Smile surely knew what they were doing moving away from it being solely a Mac app (and I appreciated that it was available on Windows when I started using Windows 11), but I don’t feel the same affection for it as I used to. I got Typinator on sale and it’s essentially the same feature set, but it has a Mac-ish feel to it that I appreciate. There’s a beta out now and potentially an iOS version (although I don’t think it will work in a way that’s useful to me).

Hookmark Pro + Hookmark Pal

I’ve been using Hook (now HookMark) for years; It’s a great way to link files, notes, and tasks together. One pain point, though, was that all of the linking I’d do on my Mac disappeared once I was using my phone or iPad. This year’s release of Hookmark Pal changes things, such that links I’ve created on the Mac work on my other Apple devices. It’s not perfect by any stretch, but it’s been a nice addition to an otherwise essential feature.

Cleanshot X

I purchased Cleanshot X about a year ago when it was featured in a Bundlehunt deal. I didn’t think, at first blush, that the features would justify switching away from macOS’s default screenshot features, but after using it over the past year, I’ve come to rely on it. I love how screenshot previews hang out in the corner of your window, instead of vanishing just before you get to mouse over it for use, and the editing and markup features are handy.

Fantastical + Cardhop

Fantastical has been my calendar app on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone for a long time. In my current job, I love being able to send meeting proposals to groups of people and let Fantastical sort out the details. Its support for Focus Modes is excellent, allowing me to tune out work when I need some time away, but show my professional obligations based on my when and where.

I wasn’t much of a Cardhop user, but its Google Directory integration is better than Apple’s Contacts app, so I use it all the time to find the email addresses of colleagues and other professional contacts in the organization.

Anylist

Since I’ve joined Rhonda in weekly grocery shopping, I appreciate Anylist more than ever before. The meal plan feature helps me keep track of our dinner plans for the week, and prompt me when we forget about meals we’ve had (or not had) recently. And while we have availed ourselves of the pickup service, which shortens our trips to (and, generally, frustrations with) the grocery store, the grocery list feature is a godsend when we pop into the store to pick up a few items that we like to choose ourselves. It has great Siri integration, too.

Foodnoms

I’ve written a fair amount about losing weight since December of 2022. I lost most of it without logging my food, but my fears of putting it back on let me to understand more specifically how many calories I was eating so that I could get myself back on track. I use FoodNoms to track my calories every day, and measuring my food has helped me understand some larger principles I can apply when I can’t log my calories.

Wallaroo

Searching for iOS wallpaper isn’t a chore, per se, but it’s nice to have an app prompt you with high-quality wallpaper from an accomplished developer with bespoke taste. Wallaroo, from IconFactory, provides a small number of wallpapers according to season, holiday, popular culture, all for a cheap subscription.

Jetpack

Jetpack isn’t exactly exciting; it’s WordPress infrastructure. It’s helpful for seeing the hits on your site and for repairing some goofy damage if you tried to upload some too-large photo assets.

Tally

Related to FoodNoms: I use Tally to summarize my snacks and wine when I’m out so I can log them later on. It’s such an open app, deceptively simple, but infinitely configurable.

Plate Calculator

I got back into weight lifting this summer, just adding squats and the benchpress in on the weekends. This simple app lets me figure out how many plates I have to add to the bar. I still use Wendler 5/3/1 but with a Numbers spreadsheet instead of an app. It’s fun.

Tripsy

You can absolutely plan a trip using Notes, or Craft, or PDFs in a folder, or whatever other version of organization suits your fancy. I love how Tripsy organizes everything for me, and even sucks reservations out of emails and puts them on my calendar. It’s fun to lavish over the details and throw everything at Tripsy.

Preview

Preview has been one of my most used apps on the Mac forever; I use it to read and mark up PDFs all the time. I’m super happy to have it on the iPad now; PDFs were viewable natively only using the Files app, and that never was a good user experience.

Calcbot

Calcbot has been my go-to calculator on iPhone for years. It’s fine for basic calculations that I need, but the conversion features make it a must-have. I miss having it on the Mac.

Sunday Serial: TineeOwl Arctic Case foriPad Mini, FastScripts for macOS, and Bellview Winery’s San Marco ’23

There’s a slow, steady fall of snow outside today: it’s a dense, heavy snow. Rhonda and I enjoyed dinner at Greenview Inn Friday night; I had the duck. Yesterday, we check out Bellview’s December cheese plate, which was “Santa and Friends.” We supplemented with some salami from Bagliani’s and some sardines for me.

Greenview Inn’s Game Special–Duck Breast

TineeOwl iPad mini

My general rule of thumb is that an apple-branded case or folio is probably the best for my usage; I’ve largely stuck to Apple iPhone cases (most recently, a Beats case) and Apple’s Magic Keyboards and Folios for iPads. I have a nice green Apple folio for my iPad mini, which I like a lot.

The thing about the mini is, it begs to be carried around and not stuffed in a bag. I like to keep it in the car with me, on the passenger seat when it’s empty, and put it on the counter when I’m making drinks and things.

Apple’s folio has a great texture, but you don’t want to get it wet or stain it. One of the things that make their folios great–magnetic connection to the device–keep it from being reliable protectors in the event of a drop.

Enter the TineeOwl Arctic case. It’s more of a wrap-around phone cover, a clear rubbery plastic case that protects the back and sides of the iPad, with a decent lip to keep the screen from contacting a table or desk surface if you lay it face down.

The TineeOwl Arctic has grooves for the iPad’s TouchID wake/sleep button and the Apple Pencil, so it doesn’t interfere with the Mini’s helpful touch features.

It can feel a little rubbery when you’re reading and holding the device from the side; the edge of the case will pull away from the device, depending upon how you’re holding it. That can feel cheap and one imagines serial removals of the case will one day render it too stretched out to be useful. On the other hand, in a landscape of overpriced accessories, TineeOwl’s pricing is such that you don’t worry about it.

And hey: now I can see the six-color logo sticker on the back!

FastScripts

FastScripts is a utility from Red Sweater Software (purveyor of Mac-assed Mac apps, including the excellent MarsEdit) that collects your AppleScripts and gives you access to them via Finder’s menu bar. You can set a global keyboard shortcut to expose the menu, and even per-script shortcuts, and search your scripts. I’ve tried pushing a lot of my favorite Applescripts to Shortcuts, but in cases where I’m just executing scripts via Shortcuts, why bother?

One of my favorites is this script to create what I call a “classic” Finder window: no sidebar, toolbar, nuthin.

tell application &quot;Finder&quot;
    activate
    if (count of Finder windows) = 0 then
        make new Finder window
    end if
end tell

tell application &quot;System Events&quot;
    tell process &quot;Finder&quot;
        try
            -- Toggle the Toolbar
            if exists menu item &quot;Hide Toolbar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1 then
                click menu item &quot;Hide Toolbar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1
            else if exists menu item &quot;Show Toolbar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1 then
                click menu item &quot;Show Toolbar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1
            end if

            -- Toggle the Status Bar
            if exists menu item &quot;Hide Status Bar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1 then
                click menu item &quot;Hide Status Bar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1
            else if exists menu item &quot;Show Status Bar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1 then
                click menu item &quot;Show Status Bar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1
            end if

            -- Toggle the Path Bar
            if exists menu item &quot;Hide Path Bar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1 then
                click menu item &quot;Hide Path Bar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1
            else if exists menu item &quot;Show Path Bar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1 then
                click menu item &quot;Show Path Bar&quot; of menu &quot;View&quot; of menu bar 1
            end if

        on error errMsg
            display dialog &quot;An error occurred: &quot; &amp; errMsg buttons {&quot;OK&quot;} default button 1
        end try
    end tell
end tell

Bellview Winery’s San Marco ’23

Bellview owner Jimmy Quarella said the ’23 San Marco was just bottled, but it’s not for sale in said vessel as it has to settle a bit. It is, however, on tap at the winery, and after a taste yesterday, I couldn’t help but commit to a growler to take home. It’s a dry red, medium-bodied by my tastes. I’ve had San Marco blended into other reds they concoct, but this is my first time having the pure distillation.

Thoughts on the Future of Liquid Glass After Alan Dye’s Departure

Adam Engst:

Liquid Glass can look elegant, particularly on the iPhone, but iOS wasn’t unattractive before. More importantly, I haven’t yet felt that Liquid Glass’s vaunted transparency does anything to make me more productive. Despite Dye’s departure (which appears to have been a surprise to upper management), Apple is unlikely to reverse course on Liquid Glass. We can hope that Dye’s successor focuses more on enhancing functionality to better align with the Steve Jobs quote that Apple badly misused when introducing Liquid Glass: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Macworld:

I hope that means we see a return to the ideas that made Apple software great in years gone by. A stronger emphasis on user experience, an obsession over small details, and a renewed passion for interfaces and controls. An appreciation of the foundational ideas that helped Apple’s products reach the pinnacle of software design.

Eric Schwarz:

I actually really like how Liquid Glass came out on iOS, although it does need some tweaks to be better from a usability standpoint. I hate it on my Mac and would gladly go back to the Leopard through Mavericks era if I could—there’s so much that feels unpredictable and cluttered, despite every marketing blurb being about clarity and focusing on content.

MG Seigler:

It’s obviously insanely hard to overhaul a UI – let alone across multiple major operating systems – but I’m going to go ahead an guess that Liquid Glass will transform to be both less liquid-y and less glass-y starting in relative short order.

Louie Mantia:

I don’t expect any big changes because I don’t think he or Apple are looking at this as an opportunity to undo Jony and Alan’s influence on the company, but I do sincerely think this will all feel better with Lemay’s leadership.

I like a lot of things about Liquid Glass on iOS and iPadOS, but there are some horsey interface elements that I’d rather see gone for good. The Mac might be the least impacted of those three platforms, but it’s my favorite place to be and necessary for me to get things done, and I generally see it as, at best, as livable, and in some cases a serious regression. And OmniOutliner 6’s beta? Yuck. I’m hoping that the swole interface elements shrink and sharpen.

OmniOutliner 6, with Liquid Glass, on iPadOS

The Inspector Button on Tahoe in OmniFocus

Sunday Serial: Black Friday & Cyber Monday Software Deals

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone, and with that, another birthday. In addition to hosting Thanksgiving, my parents took Rhonda, Aaron, and me out to Rocco’s Townhouse in Hammonton to celebrate my turning 51. It was, once again, excellent. I have some duck legs in the sous vide tank right now, which we’ll have around 4 pm before Aaron heads back up to New Brunswick for the final act of his first semester as a Freshman.

Black Friday is a great time to score some deals on software you’ve been ogling. The other side of that coin: It’s also an opportunity to drop some virtual coin on apps you don’t need, but want. All good! Here are some notables for you Mac nerds. I also ordered a Samsung T9 to replace Rhonda’s iMac’s spinning hard drives, which I’ll repurpose for something else.

Unclutter App Editors Choice

Unclutter has a collection of very cool utilities. It’s also a great way to update your Cleanshot X sub if you’re due soon. I grabbed Downie, which was featured on the latest Talk Show, as well as Forklift 4. I like apps like Forklift for interfacing with Google Drive instead of running the native app.

Take Control Books

Take Control Books is offering 25% titles, and 50% off their subscription-ish Premium tier (free updates to books after iterative updates). I grabbed these:
• Take Control of Photos – Ebook
• Take Control of iPhone Photography – Ebook
• Take Control of Notes – Ebook

Supasend

I tried Supasend when it first came out. I reminds me a bit of Drafts and Remind Faster, both of which apps prioritize input and quick filing to another application (in the case of Drafts, just about any app, and in the case of Remind Faster, Apple’s Reminders).

Acorn

Acorn competes in the same creative space as Pixelmator, and I’ve owned a license since it came out. It’s a photo editor for people who don’t need or want the complexity or expense of Photoshop. Developer Gus Mueller has been creating great Mac software for decades, and Acorn is his crowning achievement.

Retrobatch

I also have been trying out Retrobatch; I take a lot of pics for Uncorrected, and would very much like to streamline my resizing workflow (WordPress doesn’t like photos above a certain size). The excellent MarsEdit will take care of this for you, but I often post from Ulysses, because I like to be able to use my iPad to post as well. Retrobatch’s layout reminds me of Audio Hijack, with modules you string together into a module and save for batch processing images.

MailMaven

I’ve been using MailMaven since it came out in beta earlier this year, and I have a great affection for it. I can’t stop using MailMate for work email, but I do like having all of my accounts in this productivity beast. I figured I’d pay the first year introductory price and decide if I wanted to continue the subscription after that, but this price was hard to pass out.

DevonThink

DevonThink is an impossibly feature-rich document manager and note keeper. The most recent version, version 4, is available for a 25% discount. I stopped using DevonThink after moving to Windows for a spell, and now that I’m back in the Apple ecosystem, I’ve been using Notes because I love handwriting notes and Notes’ amazing Smart Script.