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Hmm - copilot does all that? I have yet to be impressed.

It os still a beta 1….and we all know the “speed” that Apple works…i project that the AI will be fully operational at end of Q2 2025…..

Sounds like the replies from the email company were being drafted by AI and not fully reviewed so maybe let Apple Intelligence correspond with them for a bit. That said, I fear basic comprehension skills are declining rapidly because of increasing reliance on AI-driven tools.

The email summarization is about ready to bring me back from android. I manage seven addresses and it really is tiresome to not be able to skim.

I will never download a BAY- (long a) TA version until fully vetted by you. This was very interesting. The email summary particularly. I don't know if can catch humor nuance, we shall see....because you do it so well. I would not want to miss a moment of it.

Great Video! Can we have a collaboration?

Thanks! BTW 13:12 in the second edition of his GTD book David Allen replaced the term "processing" with "clarifying".

The word processing program has been my springboard because I have a strong modern-day typewriting skill which is keyboarding skill that I used on card punch and data terminals and on the microcomputer today. I enjoy using my Dell OptiPlex with Microsoft Office 2021 Professional. I call my microcomputer my Keyboard because it is my powerful typewriter. Microsoft Word was really my mainspring; then Microsoft Access became my favorite program because I work on that database program more than a word processing program. Using the microcomputer makes working with business documents flexible and nifty, better than a conventional typewriter. I like printing my documents onto paper with my Canon color laser printer. The computer printer became the solution for replacing the word processing machines like the IBM Displaywriter, Wang, and Xerox. Your show is right up my niche.

William, I think you can also search for an application and drag the result to have a second app on the screen

Thank you this was brilliant

Useful tips, thank you!

I love typing like this on my iPad! The gesture support is great and I’m actually a little faster typing on the screen than a physical keyboard. It’s the whole point of the iPad really, everything you need is in this magical slab of glass. Apple have muddied the waters by focusing on profit and selling expensive accessories rather than using what’s already there.

This has been the most helpful video yet. I thought I knew everything there was to know about my iPad pro 2024. Ha Ha on me. Thank you!

2 highlights for me. One was the select feature on the slidey trackpad, which I didn’t know about. Selecting text on my iPad has been an issue for me till now. The other was ‘that flicking thing’. Type that in narrow caps 😂

What lurks in Mac details few know! That mousepad feature solves a lot of problems for me. And undo might even save my reputation. Unless, of course, that ship has sailed.

I knew none of these. NONE. I will be watching you at the wheel again soon to start making these my own. Thank you.

Is there away it get the iPad to stop asking for verification? Every so often it says to enter the password for verification. I screwed up the last time and my Apple ID was locked. I managed to fix it. Is it like this with the Mac too? If so, can you still use the Mac and get software and app (the apps that are already on it) updates without signing in with an Apple ID? I don’t use the cloud or any online services at all.

I absolutely loathe the use of AI in writing. With people (non-writers, non-translators, etc.) at my job comparing my work to that of algorithms, it's all doing my head in. Artificial intelligence can be used for so much good, but I worry we're using it indiscriminately.

Do Google books have the same price?

Do you think Amazon will ever make an e-reader in colour?

Thanks, super useful info! I think I’ll set up a writing mode, a research mode and a general work mode, with varying levels of “allowed to contact me” permissions!

Default Folder X make my macbook slow (M1 Max), does not work all the time

William, I gave up on your video at the 4:30 point, once I found out what it was about. It's not that I thought you weren't doing a fine job. It's just that you were covering a topic I am not interested in. I accept your challenge and suggest the following title for your video: "Comparison: File Management Software for MacOS". The topic I am interested in is methods for organizing / structuring folders. This is something that any of the file management softwares that you covered could implement. I listed below what I consider to be the 2 important points about this topic. If you think the topic and points are worthy, please do a video on them. Point #1 - In all my research about and personally testing organizational structure for folders, I've only identified 5 methods. They are: * By Topics (Art, Equipment / Parts, Family, Food, Investing, Medical, Politics, etc.) * By Life Roles (Business Owner, Employee, Son, Spouse, Father, Tutor, Chef, Volunteer, Etc.) * By Tiago Forte’s PARA Method (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive) * By Type of Note (Articles, images, instructions, invoices, maps, receipts, etc.) * By Days of the Week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) Point #2 - A good organizational structure for folder needs to adhere to the MECE requirement. MECE is a method of grouping information (like notes) so that the groups (like folders) are mutually exclusive (ME) and collectively exhaustive (CE). In other words, the groups (folders) do not overlap and nothing falls through the cracks. The MECE methodology is commonly used by consulting firms. When most people start out developing groups (folders), they aren’t likely going to conform to the MECE method. As weeks and months roll by, a person typically will add more groups (folders). At some point in time, the person has so many groups (folders), it becomes more and more of a challenge for a person to remember the structure of his/her groups (folders) and to find the group (folder) where he/she previously put a specific item (note). It is common when adding a new item (note) that it is realized that it could logically be added to more than one group (folder). This will make it even harder to remember in the future which group (folder) it was it put in. The MECE method helps to minimize, if not completely eliminate, those problems. There are, of course, many different variations of MECE folder structures. Here is one as an example. It is based on a user’s roles. * Family * Spouse * Son * Father * Brother * Worker * Full Time Job * Part-Time Job * Church Volunteer * Avocations * Genealogy Researcher * Chef * Author * Coin Collector * Investor The above structure reduces the chance that a file might be placed in more than one folder. Here a link to a video on MECE: th-cam.com/video/hKBt0R3v7Ec/w-d-xo.html

I’ve tried most of them, but Fover is new to me. It has a great feature that I haven’t seen in other apps: the tracking folder. This feature provides very fast access to files, helping me clean up my desktop without much effort - I can finally see my wallpaper!

And you tidied your real shelves behind 😂. What app did that for you ?

Interesting software. Managing documents can be a nightmare without some good tools. Perfect name, by the way, because the hidden meaning is crystal clear. It can be no accident "Anger File Management" is a rigorously complete anagram for "Mangle? Fine, rename tag." A message of hope for these modern times of file congestion. A little organization, perhaps more thoughtful tagging, and what was once primordial data puree takes form. As always, as they say, critical info for writers great and (like me) small.

I rather liked Anger File Management. Reminds me of my daughter Tanya, who, when she was at her closest to being a rebellious teen, liked to listen to what she called "anger music." Not sure I can define that, but it might be fun to listen to anger music while doing anger file management. Other terms for the same thing? I fear these are no better, but here goes. Records Management Software. File Tracking Software. Hierarchical File Storage Systems. Relational Data Storage Systems. Administrative Data Management Software. Some combination of the above? Or just stick with Anger File Management. I think I like that one. I have a folder on my computer named Oubliette. I'm sure you can figure out what I use it for. Later, ~ Michael

Great video, I knew about a couple of these but Default Folder X is a new one on me and it does look good and I'll take a serious look at it, thank you. Today I am one of the few people who uses iCloud Drive successfully on my Mac and iPad with shortcuts to tidy things up and that has worked well, but I have heard some horror stories about it when it goes wrong. As for a title.... Your Desktop Can’t Be the Junk Drawer Forever!

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How about "Who's The Boss Of Your Files?"

File. Management. Headaches. I so fail at this. Truly I was pretty good at file management on a PC. I cannot say that on a Mac. This was helpful to know there are headache remedies out there. Thank you.

Thanks William, I learnt a lot from this video. Really appreciated

Hi William, A nice video that helps explain quite a bit about the publication creation process, rather than acting as a tutorial for Affinity Publisher. I've passed a link to this video to my daughter - she's very competent with Affinity, but she's not so familiar with the practicalities of laying out a publication for human beings to read - so well done. There are a few important things that you may like to consider clarifying in future videos. I'm sure you have probably discovered these features, but they could be easily added to an edited version of this video. The first thing is using Affinity's guides option (View/Guides). This allows you to set up column guides on the master pages - just select the number of columns you want and the job is done automatically. This will remove the need to drag out a centre guide from the ruler, and eliminates having to guess the gutter width between columns. Another option is to create full width text frames and use the Columns option in the context menu at the top of the screen to add text columns within the text frame itself. I think it may be worth pointing out the text styles (TSt) tab on the right of the interface. This allows for quick styling of paragraphs of text without having to step through the publication making the adjustments manually. I'm surprised that you didn't quickly mention the baseline grid option that ensures consistent and perfectly aligned line spacing across spreads - particularly useful where you may be using different font sizes in headings and subheadings. I was also wondering why you chose to use image placeholders to create page background colours - I would have thought it better to use the rectangle tool from the shapes panel!! Anyway, just my thoughts based on my experiences of using Affinity Publisher, and my experience of publishing in general (I too worked for BBC Publications in the past - many years ago - maybe we were working there at the same time?).

Happy you showed me MindNode, as I've been looking for a tool to help me plan and be creative. Installed it, and now I love it. Using it on all my devices! Thank you!

Thanks for the video

I hope with probable futility Apple doesn't go too far with AI. The microscope didn't kill science and the metronome didn't destroy music. But the microscope didn't presume the role of scientist nor did the metronome regiment cadenzas. AI is different. It's invasive and beguiling. AI is a fine tool for searching and distilling. Creativity is my job. Please, Apple, keep the beast in strong chains. As much as I love Linux, I prefer to write in a Mac environment. I would hate to be pushed out.

The vehicle motion cues feature is a very cool idea, and there was a time when I would have loved to have that. Now, not so much. But before I retired, I often rode the bus to work and/or school. I had a long commute, and of course, being an amateur writer, I spent a lot of that time on my laptop computer while being bounced about by the bus. Motion sickness immediately became my biggest obstacle to getting my work done. But over time, I gradually adapted and got better at dealing with it, to the point that, now, I'm not troubled by that malady, or at least, rarely so. Wish this feature had been available back then. For various reasons I started, but didn't finish, this video several times before I finally was able to watch the whole thing. Can't say how many times Siri popped up on my phone at 03:14 in the video, when you said, "Siri," with a pause before and after. It's not a big deal and I'm not concerned about it, but in the past, you've typically said "Iris," instead. I'm curious why the change. Maybe you just forgot. Please do have Angela pop in and say hi in one of your live steams, even if only for a moment. We would love to meet her. Thanks again. Keep 'em coming.

Started also with quark depression… try to learn affinity..

I'm excited. It's been a while!

I love to box of “goodies” to your left.

Thanks, William. I must admit there doesn't appear a lot that I will find handy. I'm sure I will gradually use (and take for granted) many of the changes. I would love to see a lot more attention given to Notes, rather than a few minor upgrades (an easier way to change font colour etc on the iphone or ipad). But I suspect Apple is trying to push everyone to Freeform. Pages is already pretty good so minor changes are welcome.

Not a “writer” , but do enjoy your videos, especially this one explaining all iOS 18 etc. Making me plan upgrades to my devices. Thank you 🙏. 👍🏻🤗🕸

Trust me, I will not install them yet. Today's question, I think I saw a figure behind you briefly at one point. Will Angela ever get an onstage presence?

I, too, have an email category called "Money" - but since I'm a freelance writer, the full name is "Money (lack thereof)"

I write everything in Scrivener, but I find it cumbersome to transfer articles to MarsEdit which I use for posting. I'm looking for way to export from Scrivener to MarsEdit without having to reformat manually. I agree that MarsEdit is the best that I've used.

My #1 issue with Scrivener is that I always make a backup thumb drive copy at the end of the day and it’s absolutely not set up for that. Super frustrating every single day. Seems so simple… give an option for a dated backup copy which is not available in the menu and etc. WHY Would it ever do that? Try to start working from your backup copy on a thumb drive which I never keep connected to my computer in case something happens to it!

I suspect the issue you have with image drag and drop is browser related. At present (is supposed to change in iPadOS 18) all browsers (including Chrome) all use WebKit for iPad and that is probably the blocker as most browsers are compatible with Google Chrome aka Chromium browsers and the iPad today doesn’t support them (the Mac does but not iPad or iPhone). However when the new version of iPadOS gets released later in the year it’s supposed to allow all kinds browsers to be used and overall compatibility should then increase. However, one big benefit today for WebKit is its designed to keep battery life as a priority. So only time will tell if the new types of browsers will be as battery efficient. Hope that helps…

Okay, I don't generally watch hour-long live stream videos, but I watched this one and it was great. Will try to watch the next one, live. First Wednesday of the month, 7 pm British time? That would be 11 am where I am, I believe. I think I can manage that. Noonish, my time, would be better, but who am I to complain. 7:00 your time probably works better for you. Loved the tip about reading mode in Safari. I mostly use Google Chrome, but I use Safari for certain things; now I'll use it for this. Chrome also has a reading mode, but Safari's reading mode looks better to my eye, now that I've tried both. I enjoyed the banter very much. Yes, the sight gag was possibly the best moment of the live stream. Closer. That's great. So fun. Looking forward to the next live stream. I'll try to get Sue to watch with me. Love, Michael and Sue

A full 58keys on the mac and ios changes would be very useful, thanks!

You might find the screws for your desk easier if you apply some soap to the threads. p.s. I do like your new wallpaper!