Apple should have borrowed a Windows feature, but here’s what to do instead to improve productivity — Stage Manager has been the bane of Apple’s life in 2022, but it’s finally available on Mac and iPad. It definitely adds important functionality to iPad, but what does it add to the Mac? In this article, I look at Mac Stage Manager, and how it works. I then talk…

It’s like being able to teleport across a massive whiteboard or even between whiteboards — I recently wrote about how white-boarding had enabled me to take on more ambitious projects. I Take on Bigger Projects Because I Switched From Mind Mapping to White-boarding Edit descriptionwilljmurphy.medium.com There are many white-boarding (or infinite canvas) apps out there, but it was one in particular that changed the game for me: Prodrafts.

The iPhone has state-of-art machine learning + a 48MP sensor, so did I waste my money on a 33MP Sony? — I’ve been taking photos seriously for over 15 years, selling stock photos on iStock and then Getty (have a look). Over the last two years, I switched from a Canon DSLR to a Sony a7 IV, and I was pleased with what the Sony kit could do. Happy, that is…

Safari has great device integration, but Chrome has strong service integration — Mobile Safari doesn’t work on absolutely every website, and the iPad version recently broke on the British Airways website. This is what I got.

It’s confusing at first, but when you get it, welcome to overlapping windows on iPad — Stage Manager has been a long time coming, but it’s finally available on iPadOS 16.1 and later. It’s supposed to be part of iPad growing up, but turn it on and the familiar iPadOS interface gets weird. Maybe it looks like nothing has changed, and you just see your home…

Change text case (inc to Title case), sort lists, remove duplicates all from the Share Menu — Until recently, I used Text Case to convert titles for Medium articles into title case, but then I discovered that there is an Apple Shortcut action that will do that. Text Case is amazingly powerful, but that’s the only function I use. It seemed like overkill. I wondered if I…

Personal information security is about more than using a password manager — I returned to the UK last year and nearly lost access to several bank accounts. There were various problems, but the root cause centred around proving my identity. It’s not hard to understand why it happened. Even today, sometimes there is no substitute to paper documents. We had a house…

You won’t have to scan text in documents or webpages for potential tags. Just pick the best — You’ve read an article on a website, written something, or read a long email. You want to tag it in your note-taking system, but which tags do you choose? It would be nice if you could just select the important words, or combination of words, from a list. It would…