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Get ready for Mac Geek Gab 1047 with Dave, Pilot Pete, and Adam Christianson, dropping knowledge on World Brain Day! Kick off with quick tips: forgetful moments? Use ChatGPT. It also helps summarize Zoom meeting notes. Pilot Pete then shows us how to manually select backup drives for Time Machine. Discover clever uses for your Apple Watch and streamline your clipboard with the Paste app. Get the lowdown on remote Bluetooth temp sensors for your fridge and freezers. Remember, “Don’t Get Caught” without these handy tricks!
Tackle your tech questions head-on: Larry finds the best way to add album artwork to Apple Music, and your three favorite geeks help Mark master file syncing between home and work with Resilio Sync. Adam shares his experience migrating to a new Synology DS423+ and handling Plex. Jeffrey has his Apple Watch music woes solved, while Rand gets tips on managing email overload by using SaneBox. Don’t miss Cool Stuff Found, from de-reverb plugins to disposable email addresses, and DEVONthink’s email archive tools. Stay savvy and never get caught unprepared!
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1047 for Monday, July 22nd, 2024
- July 22nd: World Brain Day
- Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 QT-Use ChatGPT for those “What’s the word I forgot?” moments
- The Dad Jokes Are Strong With This One
- 00:02:54 BernSh-Use ChatGPT to summarize Zoom Meeting Notes
- 00:09:07 QT-If Multi Drives for Time Machine, Open System Settings > General > Time Machine > Right Click and Select Back Up to “This Disk” now
- 00:10:53 Stephen-QT-1041-Back Up Automations as Shortcuts
- 00:12:47 Harvey-QT-Use Apple Watch Mirroring in Winter to Keep Your Arms Warm
- 00:14:38 Scott-QT-1044-The “Paste” clipboard app optionally pastes as plain text
- 00:15:25 Bill-QT-Remote bluetooth temp sensors in freezers and fridge
- 00:00:01 QT-Use ChatGPT for those “What’s the word I forgot?” moments
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- Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:21:14 Larry-How to get Album Artwork into Apple Music?
- 00:28:25 Mark-How to sync files between home and work?
- 00:35:12 Adam-Migrating to a new Synology DS423+
- 00:47:12 Jeffrey-My Watch Isn’t Playing All My Songs
- 00:52:11 Rand-What do you use to deal with a crush of emails you don’t want?
- Cool Stuff Found
- 01:02:15 DLH-CSF-Waves Clarity Vx DeReverb Plugin fixed MGG 1046!
- 01:05:48 PP-CSF-10MinuteMail.com for a ‘disposable’ email address!
- 01:07:35 Kaylee-CSF-RDM on GitHub shows all possible resolutions as a menu item.
- 01:09:26 Bruce-CSF-Network Utility & more from Devon Technologies
- 01:10:47 Marco-CSF-Overcast gets an overhaul
- 01:13:13 Brett Terpstra-CSF-Use DEVONthink as an email archive tool
- 01:16:48 MGG 1047 Outtro
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2 Comments
BernSh · July 24, 2024 at 8:27 am EDT
Re: your comment about using Devonthink for your data. It’s a good idea to specify using it for only a subset of your data and not all your data. When I try (against the recommendation not to) to use it as a Finder replacement it did not end well. Per a 2021 forum post on this subject:
“Finder (a view into the entire OSX file system and other attached file systems) and DEVONthink (a view into its own database and any indexed files that “appear” to be in the database) are two completely different applications with different purposes and to try to conflate or replace one with the other will probably only end in tears. I recommend you get off that starting point.”
On a separate new topic: I recently discovered that the Apple Mail app will not allow you to create a mailbox with the name “Notes.” Weird things happened when I tried that and a senior advisor finial confirmed that that mailbox name is already used by the system and therefore can not be added as a new mailbox by the user.
Why I wanted to have a mailbox by the name Notes is a topic for another day.
Dave Hamilton · July 24, 2024 at 9:57 am EDT
Yeah, I can see where using it as a Finder replacement would not work out. But as a place where one intentionally stores an email archive… I could see that working well (and I believe it does, at least based upon Brett Terpstra’s talk at Macstock this year).
And yes, “Notes” is a reserved name on (most?) IMAP mail servers, because IMAP supports storing/syncing Notes in addition to regular email.