It seems nearly every platform does a “wrapped” or year-in-review thing now. Only some of them are interesting to me. Sanebox did what these should do by explaining the value I’m getting from the service.
Productivity
Add to List Shortcut
OmniFocus is my trusted system for tracking all of my commitments, as well as my “someday, maybes” and a number of other lists that I have. A while back I started using a set of “Idea Lists” that work really well for me to capture things like books to consider, shows to watch, …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Add to List ShortcutI don’t know when or what app did this but I finally purged a bunch of Twitter “profile” values from my Contacts database. Little housecleaning. Related.
Gall’s Law
I was listening to The Omni Show — How Jorge Arango Uses OmniFocus. It was an overall good episode and at the end Arango shared a reference to Gall’s Law. I had not heard of this before so I looked it up: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Gall's LawTammy led the way while we all helped and the shed is in better shape than it ever has been! I didn’t get a before picture — but you could not see any of the floor before.
I’m using the new Use Model capability in Shortcuts to bring My Version number to life on my phone each morning. The prompt is still off — too software focused and not enough zen. But I like where this is going and how easy it is to create.
Use Apple Intelligence Models in Shortcuts
Shortcuts on OS 26 got a big new feature with the ability to use Apple Intelligence models directly. I’ve already had a taste of this by using OpenAI API calls in Shortcuts to add LLM capabilities. You can see how I’m using AI in the Weekly Thing for some examples. Accessing LLM …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Use Apple Intelligence Models in ShortcutsI’m slowly starting to adopt the new Planned Date in OmniFocus 4.7. At a minimum it will reduce the use of a “Today” tag. I already use Due Dates sparingly but can now use them even less. The combination of Planned and Defer Dates are good enough for most things.
Omnivore announced they were shutting down last October, but it wasn’t until this week I saw a group of Omnivore addresses subscribed to the Weekly Thing bounce. Seems they turned off the email addresses now.