IA Writer, my favorite text editor for all Apple platforms (which I still use as the central piece of my Markdown collaboration workflow via GitHub), has been updated today to version 5.5 both on Mac and iOS/iPadOS. Tot is the first note-taking app I’ve used that gets this aspect of sharing text/links to an extension right. And here’s the best part: the upper section of the share extension’s popup has a full, scrollable preview of the selected dot, so I can see what the entire note will look like before appending or prepending text. In an intuitive, compact UI, the extension offers everything I need: I can pick one of Tot’s seven dots I can choose to append or prepend text to a dot the extension even lets me pick the number of line breaks I want to put between a dot’s existing content and the new text I’m inserting into a note. Tot’s new share extension is, quite possibly, the best one I’ve ever tried for a plain text note-taking app. Like everything else in Tot, attention was paid to minimizing friction, allowing information to be collected as quickly as possible. Additionally, there’s also a widget for iOS that lets you quickly access any of Tot’s dots. ![]() To this end, we’ve added a Sharing extension for both iOS and macOS. The main focus of today’s release are system extensions that allow Tot to co-exist with other apps. We’re happy to announce a new version of Tot with some features frequently requested by the app’s legion of fans. You can find out more about Club MacStories and subscribe here.Ĭraig Hockenberry, writing on The Iconfactory blog: We work hard to make each issue special for Club members and would love for you to be a part of it. As a new member you’ll receive the newsletters, have access to our full archive of almost 350 back issues, and enjoy other perks throughout the year. If you enjoy but want even broader and deeper coverage from the MacStories team, please consider joining Club MacStories. I have lots of material to cover, and I have big plans for Obsidian going forward, so I’m going to continue this series as a regular Club column for a while. In other installments, I’ve already covered my approach to third-party plugins in Obsidian, my ‘Dashboard’ setup to organize my thoughts, how I integrate Todoist with Obsidian, and more. I’ve decided to make this first installment – and only this one – free for everyone to read to get a sense of what the series is like. ![]() This is the first installment of an ongoing series about the new Obsidian app for iPad and iPhone that I’m publishing on a regular basis exclusively for Club MacStories members. So, given my time constraints, I thought it’d be fun to do a multi-part series for Club members on how I’ve set up and have been using Obsidian as my Markdown text editor and note-taking app of choice. I’ve covered Obsidian and my approach to writing my annual iOS review in it on both AppStories and Connected because I’m busy with that massive project and an upcoming major relaunch of the Club ( hint hint), I don’t have time right now to work on a proper standalone, in-depth review of Obsidian for MacStories. Last month, after a long beta period I’ve participated in for the past few months, the official Obsidian app for iPhone and iPad launched on the App Store. My Dashboard workspace in Obsidian for iPad. The combination of options has made it easier to find and manage things in Tot, which has led me to use the app more too. I can also copy Tot’s notes into Markdown-formatted text that I can copy and paste into another app for processing and delete the content of all seven Tot notes, so I can start fresh. Tot Dot Review lets me quickly pull URLs, Apple Maps URLs, addresses, phone numbers, and dates from my Tot notes without skimming through each of the app’s seven notes. Instead, I’ve got a shortcut called Tot Dot Review that lets me parse and process Tot’s dots in several different ways that shows off Tot’s shortcuts actions along with a handful of built-in Shortcuts actions for extracting different types of data from text. I still don’t have a system for the app’s seven dots. ![]() With the introduction of Tot’s Shortcuts support, I immediately saw an opportunity to process Tot’s dots in ways that would make the app fit better with the way I use it. Kolide: Endpoint Security Powered by People Try for Free! The trouble was that when I went back to the app to find something, I often found myself clicking and scrolling around a lot to find what I wanted. Instead, I would simply dump text and URLs copied from the web or jot notes to myself haphazardly in any of the app’s seven colorful dots. I never came up with a system for using the app that fits well with how I work. I’ve used Tot by The Iconfactory on and off since it was released in 2020 and reviewed by Federico, but it never stuck.
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