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Marco Arment, on marco.org : The Reminders app , though, doesn’t fit me at all. I don’t like how it looks, how it works, or how it’s organized. Hell, I don’t even like its icon. There’s nothing about it I like. So I never open it. Here, here. Earlier this year, I switched from Things 3 to Reminders in preparation for what I thought was the Siri AI introduction. When it became clear the release was…
From Reddit : “ I’m also excited to announce our free CrossPoint Sync service at sync.crosspointreader.com which lets you use the already built in KOSync feature to push reading progress over to Hardcover and other services. This is EARLY alpha stages but it’s completely free and open source. You can even self host it.” Coming soon down the pipeline is hopefully SD Plugins & Themes. I already have…
Diirge, on reddit.com : Look, I’m biased, I head up CrossPoint, but I want to give xteink a shootout here. I have read twice as much in the last two weeks than I ever have since my x3 and probably 10x more than before xteink existed at all. I’m really enjoying my X4 . Way faster than I expected, well built and buttons . The lack of touchscreen doesn’t bother me at all, and the lack of backlight as…
From adriansieber.com : I’m very excited to announce the 1.0 release of Perspec ! Perspec is a desktop app for correcting the perspective of images. This is primarily useful for photos of documents and receipts, but it can be used for any kind of image. Don’t recall if I ever tried during it 9 years of development. But it looks like a fine tool. Hoping it gets ported to iOS at some point, since…
Brett, on brettterpstra.com : So I built TerminalWidget : a universal app that lets you push text, charts, progress, images, and tables into widgets from the tools you already use — the command line, Shortcuts, AppleScript, or a URL scheme. The great example of an App I want to use… but don’t know on what yet. But bookmarked and keeping it top of mind.
OpenAI, on youtube.com : Meet gpt-transcribe and gpt-live-transcribe, two new models for batch and live transcription. See how they handle custom vocabulary, background noise, multilingual speech, and common transcription challenges like accents, names, short answers, and numbers. Looks really amazing. This actually prompted me to cancel my WisprFlow subscription. I think that I can hold myself…
From freeink.org : Free Ink is an open-source collective building the software, firmware and hardware for e-paper readers. Every layer ships in the open, so anyone can pick it up, extend it, and make it their own. Very interesting. Seems driven by Xteink. Must say that I’m really enjoying my X4 , specially with Bookfusion integration .
Alex MacCaw, on reflect.app : Today we’re making the biggest change to Reflect since we launched. We’ve rebuilt it from the ground up for the age of AI , while preserving the privacy and control that have always been central to Reflect. The result is Reflect Open : a local-first, open-source app built on plain Markdown files. The beta is available today Curious if the paid version wasn’t…
João Carrasqueira, on xda-developers.com : This desktop environment just keeps getting better, and it’s quickly establishing itself as a major competitor to long-standing alternatives. It’s already the default desktop in Pop! OS (made by the same company as COSMIC itself), but you may see it show up in even more distros at this rate. Good overview of Cosmic features, which while not unique, are…
Date: 2026-07-16 Title: Apple’s New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark titlelink: https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html Draft: No — Inscribe, on get-inscribe.com : Apple’s new SpeechAnalyzer is the most accurate on-device speech engine we tested. It beat every Whisper model we ship, including Whisper Small, on both the clean and the noisy…
Matt Birchler, on birchtree.me : It’s still not 100% perfect, and it’s not as good as something like Aqua Voice or WhisperFlow on the Mac, but it’s definitely an improvement and is something that I will use more often. Fudge. I really wanted Apple to Sherlock a bunch of apps. Doesn’t bode well for it though.
Andrew Liszewski, on theverge.com : Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will “ no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content via the Kindle Store,” Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke wrote in an email to The Verge . I have an Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation), which I spent a fair amount of time…
Jacob Fu, on cotabby.app : Open-source AI autocomplete for the apps you already use, powered by Apple Intelligence or local models and kept entirely on your Mac. With Cotypist announcing pricing — and the fact that it’s a bit bonkers , a few alternatives how started to show up. Cotabby.app seems the leading candidate. According to comments it’s a still a bit rough, but it’s getting there. I’d love…
Brian Guthrie, on brianguthrie.com : Prospero is a Claude Code plugin I built to make me a better (I hope!) writer, and (just as important!) to help me ship. It borrows the interrogative, artifact-driven approach from Superpowers by staging writing into four phases: Have not tried it yet, but I’m very intrigued about AI that is used to polish ideas and writing, versus just a shortcut.
Shawn Smucker, on shawnsmucker.substack.com : Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father’s cancer diagnosis or how lonely she’s been…
kepano, on obsidian.md : Today we’re excited to launch Obsidian Community , the new directory and developer dashboard for Obsidian plugins and themes. So happy about this. I’ve tried to cut down on my plugins over the past year, but love having the option of hundreds of utilities.
Ben McCarthy, on benricemccarthy.ghost.io : Indigo brings together Bluesky and Mastodon into a single, unified experience. While we’ve built it around the idea of unifying both services, it’s also great to use with just one. Beautiful and smart app. Maybe if Bluesky ever becomes part for my rotation I’ll revisit. For now Mastodon and Twitter lists via Readwise are my jam.
Michael Kozlowski, on goodereader.com : Remarkable, the company that makes distraction-free e-notebooks that can be used for editing PDF files, freehand drawing, or taking notes. They have announced that they are downsizing, that over 200 staff members will lose their jobs, and that the CEO will also be replaced. Sad that they seem to be facing trouble. However, I’ve worried for a while that their…
From x.ai : Today, we are excited to announce two powerful standalone audio APIs: Grok Speech to Text ( STT ) and Grok Text to Speech ( TTS ). Built on the same stack that powers Grok Voice, Tesla vehicles, and Starlink customer support. Always curious about these developments. Will these models make the feature a commodity that will eat Wispr Flow ’ s lunch?
Julian Mack, Ekagra Ranjan, Walter Beller-Morales, Bharat venkitesh, Pierre Richemond, on huggingface.co : In English, cohere-transcribe outperforms both proprietary and open-source competitors to take the #1 spot on the huggingface Open ASR Leaderboard . Missed posting about this a few weeks back. Been using it via Whisper Memo and seems to work great. Haven’t seen it exposed too much on the Mac…
Abner Li, on 9to5google.com : This app is intended to bring the “ best of Google Search right to your desktop.” The Alt + Space keyboard shortcut opens a Search box for the web, Google Drive and local files, and installed apps. Those last two aspects make for a very Mac Spotlight-like experience. All of this has happened before and will happen again. I recall begging IT at Procter & Gamble to…
Paul Jiménez Vela, on workspaceupdates.googleblog.com : Today, we’re bringing the Gemini app to macOS as a native desktop experience, designed to live right where you work. It’s always just a keyboard shortcut away, allowing you to quickly get the help you need without losing your focus. Josh Woodward, on x.com : Introducing Gemini on Mac. We heard your feedback. We recruited a small team. They…
David Price, on macworld.com : But is that an excuse? Not really. If running an app store is too much trouble, close it down. If comprehensive vetting is impractical, stop pretending the App Store is completely safe. (And definitely stop scaremongering about sideloading.) If you can’t make the App Store a truly reliable resource for good, safe, legitimate software, then give iPhone users the…
Ricky Mondello, on hachyderm.io : New to macOS 26.4, the menu extra for the Passwords app shares its unlock state with the full app. So if you use Touch ID or your Mac password to unlock the menu extra and then go to add a new password or open an item in the full app, you won’t have to authenticate again to unlock the app. That fact that this is exciting says a lot of how many rough edges Apple…
The Day One Team, on dayoneapp.com : Today, we’re renaming Day One Premium to Day One Silver and introducing a new tier: Day One Gold . My now legacy Premium plan remains at $24.99, as worth it as ever. But it’s Silver replacement at $49.99 a year becomes a bit of a tough recommendation for those starting out. Specially conflicted with the Gold plan at $74.99 a year. It has multiple AI features I…
Jason Snell, on sixcolors.com : And here’s the biggest reason I think a smaller laptop may never happen: Over the last decade, everything in macOS has gotten a bit bigger—not just OS elements, but even fundamentals of app design. When I was still using an 11-inch Air, I would often discover apps that couldn’t be resized to fit on my screen. The same happened with the retina MacBook. I’m afraid…
David Sparks, on macsparky.com : But there’s a gap at the top. A premium ultralight for people who travel constantly, who want the absolute minimum weight and footprint, and who are willing to pay for it. A MacBook that weighs two pounds or less, with a stunning display and all-day battery life. Not a compromise machine. A showcase. This. A showcase is the key point. For those of us that own a…
Jon von Tetzchner, on vivaldi.com : To toggle UI Auto-hide, use the keyboard shortcut ⌘ F10/Ctrl F11 or click the arrow icon in the Status Bar. When enabled, your interface (Tab Bar, Address Bar, Panel and Status Bar) steps aside while you’re reading, watching, or working. The content gets the full stage. Then the moment your cursor moves to any edge of the screen, everything is right there…