After trying out various tasks and project managers over the years, Amazing Marvin’s Month Planner Strategy significantly boosted my productivity and workflow (see more here.) This article explains how and why. How the Planner Works As with all of Marvin’s strategies, you enable the monthly Planner, and then you can assign tasks and projects in ..read more

Every December, the Raycast productivity and utility app creates a “Raycast Wrapped” report for all its users. The report includes statistics about user productivity, such as the most active day of the week, the number of snippets used, the most frequently used apps, the number of applications launched using Raycast, and the total number of ..read more

Besides the top Mac automation apps I use—Keyboard Maestro, BetterTouchTool, Hazel, TextExpander, PopClip, smart folders, and iClip—I have about twelve other applications that greatly help me produce content, complete client work, and keep me productive. As a long-time Mac user, I think online and desktop applications have significantly improved in the last several years, providing ..read more

As someone who spends a good chunk of my day on a Mac, I’ve had my fair share of encounters with various screenshot applications. But nothing, and I mean nothing, has come close to the experience I’ve had with CleanShot X, a featured-packed screenshot and desktop video recording application for the Mac. I’ve been using ..read more

For those acquainted with the notion of a second brain, the presently released Chat feature of Mem X serves as a genuine second brain. A second brain is a concept that refers to a system or tool that helps individuals capture and organize their ideas, thoughts, and knowledge in a way that allows for easy ..read more

As someone who blogs about apps and automation, I find it a little embarrassing to write a glowing review of an application, but then ten months later have to admit that I’m switching to a similar app. It’s hard to admit I was wrong, especially when writing publicly. But it’s important, to be honest and ..read more

Setting and achieving goals takes planning and monitoring for progress. In this article, I will show you how to use the productivity application, Amazing Marvin, to create and plan goals for the year. It is important to break down overall annual goals into smaller, more achievable objectives. Quarterly goals help to give direction, ensure that ..read more

​Managing emails has never been easy, and over the years I’ve switched and used a half dozen mail clients to make processing emails easier and less ti ..read more

If you’ve followed MacAutomationTips over the years, you know I’ve tried several task managers–from Things, Todoist, and Informant, to ClickUp and TickTick. I even spent time back in the day with OmniFocus and Wunderlist. But no matter how hard I tried, none of them worked. For a while, I didn’t know what else to try […] The post The Amazing Marvin Desktop App, Features and Setup appeared first on Mac Automation Tips ..read more

Up until about six months ago I was a longtime Safari web browser user. But after much frustration with what Safari lacked, I switched first to Google Chrome, and then a few months later to the Chromium based Vivaldi web browser. And recently I returned to the workspace Google extension, Workona, for managing my tabs, […] The post Workona and Vivaldi Solve the tab clutter problem appeared first on Mac Automation Tips ..read more