A post on Michael Tsai’s blog reminded me of a great RSS reader available for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS: News Explorer.

I have used News Explorer exclusively a few years ago at a time I felt Reeder might be abandoned; I was also frustrated about reporting quite a few bugs and never hearing back.

Now, I have installed News Explorer back. Because I feel Reeder, now called Reeder Classic, might be abandoned. Reeder has not been seeing regular updates when being the only version of the app. Now, the developer introduced Reeder. and I suspect his focus will slowly be moving to the new app.

For the last couple of days I got my first sample of Apple Intelligence: the notification summaries.

The first time I noticed it, it was because the Calendar notification looked a bit different. I was in the middle of something and dismissed it.

Today I got it again. This time I paid more attention. And indeed, it was the same summary notification. It was summarizing 2 calendar notifications for events that occurred 3 days ago. It has nothing to do with the current events in the calendar. It has nothing to do with the notifications that are displayed once I click on it.

Notepad calculators. Text files that can do calculations. And conversions. Some even charts.

I don’t know how popular this cagegory of apps is. I don’t remember when I first learned about them. I used one, now and then, when I needed to save some formulas that I can reuse at a later time to recalculate things based on input.

It’s been a while since then. Today I took a look at the notepad calculators category again.

I go between using the Reminders and Due apps, on both my iPhone and MacBook. Why?

Reminders app has location-based reminders. I don’t use this very often, but I do need sometimes the “Remind me when I get home to check x”. What pushes me away from Reminders app is the lack of configurable notifications. I get one. If I missed it, as in I haven’t been next to my phone, or I want to then I don’t get another chance. I have to raise the phone and check. Which means carrying the

Starting with BetterTouchTool 4.615 you can manage your menubar’s status items via BTT.

I have installed the example preset and it works pretty well. This also means one less app needed.

On macOS Sonoma (14.x), under the Keyboard Shortcuts > Input Sources, I have found two actions:

1. Select the previous input source
2. Select next source in Input menu

At a quick glance these look to be a pair of actions, right? But then, even if the actions are about selecting previous and next, they refer to two different things: “input source” and “source in Input menu” respectively.

The behavior of the shortcuts, the different UI elements involved, made this even more confusing to me.