I switched to Calendar 366 Plus as my menu bar calendar on Mac and it’s perfect for my needs. The icon shows the date, it supports natural language event creation and understands slash notation to specify the calendar name. It even does a nice job highlighting events in the month calendar when they are selected in the list view. For only $10 it was a small investment with a big payoff.

With the huge variety of image editors available for iOS, I find myself using Annotable more with every new update. Pixelmator and OmniGraffle are amazing pieces of software on iOS but for simple edits they are just too much work. With all of the tools unlocked (a $10 IAP) Annotable can blur, highlight, draw shapes and lines, as well as add text and very nice magnifier effects to any image. A recent update for Annotable added the option to adjust magnification for annotations, which I never even knew I needed.

The Sources and Methods podcast is a good interview show with a wide variety of guests. I was lucky enough to be invited on this week’s episode. Alex and I talked about using DEVONthink, social media, and the value proposition for privacy. I think it was a fun conversation and I stand behind my recommendations at the end. Miyazaki is just the best. Check out the copious show notes too.

Most of my information is captured as plain text. I love text files. But, sometimes an image or a bit of formatting actually does help document things more precisely. Writing notes in Markdown with image links is possible but it’s not enjoyable. This is especially true when working on iOS. In those situations I fall back to a DEVONthink formatted note. They share a lot of functionality with Evernote documents. DEVONthink formatted notes can contain images, links, and a variety of text formatting.

The recent Evernote privacy policy brought about considerable response from the nerds. Here’s the relevant section many are concerned with (highlighting is mine): The latest update to the Privacy Policy allows some Evernote employees to exercise oversight of machine learning technologies applied to account content, subject to the limits described below, for the purposes of developing and improving the Evernote service. Now I’ve highlighted two points in the policy.

I’m a huge fan of DEVONthink for iOS . It’s one of my favorite apps released in 2016. But there are still some frustrating gaps and non-obvious features. Accessing favorite tags and groups takes far too much exploring and is not supported by the standard URL scheme. But, it is handled through direct item links. Tap and hold on any document, group, or tag to access a pop-over. The item link is a URL that links directly to that place in DEVONthink and it works across platforms.

This is not new but I forget about the feature every week. 3D Touch the phone app on iOS to access favorites and other quick access features. I’m not sure of the right way for Apple to educate users about all of these iOS features but I doubt most know anything about these little details in iOS 10.

I’m no fan of William F. Buckley’s philosophies. I rarely watched him when he was alive. Recently I’ve been taken by a sense of loss for his style. Whether I agreed with his opinions or not, he had them and he was not one to avoid a debate with an interviewee. Here are a few of the best Buckley interviews I’ve watched on YouTube: Noam Chomsky — This takes place in 1969 during the Vietnam War era and in hindsight Buckley’s positions have completely disintegrated.

My history with OmniFocus goes back to OmniOutliner on the Mac and the miraculous Kinkless GTD (thanks Ethan!). Those early days with Kinkless and GTD felt a bit revolutionary. Then The Omni Group released OmniFocus and set a the gold standard in task management for both Mac and iOS. The power of the perspectives and the incredible quick capture on the Mac was groundbreaking. The transition to OmniFocus 2 killed my interest in the system.

Polarr is a very powerful photo editing tool for iOS and Mac. I was turned on to it by a friend that is a much better photography than I am but I still use it occasionally. Polarr for Mac is on sale right now for $3. Polarr for iOS | Free with IAP Polarr for Mac | $3