{"id":334,"date":"2023-06-14T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/?p=334"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T11:50:53","slug":"one-day-x-apps-y-mugs-of-tea-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/2023\/06\/14\/one-day-x-apps-y-mugs-of-tea-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day, X apps, Y mugs of tea 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year running, here&#8217;s a complete list of the apps I wrote with during one day &#8212; plus half a dozen I particularly recommend. <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"One Day, X apps, Y mugs of tea 2023\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pAd5tq7VK6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LINKS:<br \/>\nSupport 58keys on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/user?u=86274276<br \/>\nJoin the Writer&#8217;s Mailing list too: http:\/\/eepurl.com\/gQTqTT<\/p>\n<p>MAIN APPS:<br \/>\nCleanShot X: from $29 https:\/\/cleanshot.com<br \/>\nHookmark: from $30 https:\/\/hookproductivity.com<br \/>\nMarsEdit: $60 https:\/\/redsweater.com\/marsedit\/<br \/>\nLogic Pro for Mac: $199 https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/logic-pro\/id634148309?mt=12<br \/>\nFinal Cut Pro for iPad: $49\/year https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/final-cut-pro-for-ipad\/id1631624924<\/p>\n<p>CleanShot X and Hookmark are also on Setapp: https:\/\/cleanshot.com<\/p>\n<p>RELATED PREVIOUS 58KEYS EPISODES:<br \/>\nOne Day, X Apps, Y Mugs of Tea 2022: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e3xdbaW_g1M&#038;t=168s<br \/>\nCleanShot X: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2XAnUUxuEfI<br \/>\nHookmark: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YaYbJhYg8qQ&#038;t=185s and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U4IVK7wBGEA<br \/>\nMarsEdit: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7RwFhdRHxas<\/p>\n<p>ALL APPS:<br \/>\nApple Watch alarm https:\/\/www.apple.com\/watch\/<br \/>\nEuFy camera https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Nn8Yq3 (US), https:\/\/amzn.to\/3qFHV0j (UK)<br \/>\nDrafts https:\/\/getdrafts.com\/<br \/>\nMarsEdit https:\/\/redsweater.com\/\/marsedit\/<br \/>\nApple TV app https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apple-tv-4k\/<br \/>\nWidgets on macOS Sonoma https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macos\/sonoma-preview\/<br \/>\nSafari https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macos\/sonoma-preview\/<br \/>\n1Password https:\/\/1password.com\/<br \/>\nAirtable https:\/\/airtable.com\/<br \/>\nApple Notes https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/notes\/id1110145109<br \/>\nNumbers https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/numbers\/id409203825?mt=12<br \/>\nFacebook https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/facebook\/id284882215<br \/>\nTwitter https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/twitter\/id333903271<br \/>\nLinkedIn https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/linkedin-job-search-news\/id288429040<br \/>\nFaceTime Audio https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/HT204380<br \/>\nGoogle Chrome https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/<br \/>\nReeder https:\/\/reederapp.com\/<br \/>\nOmniFocus https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/omniFocus<br \/>\nMail https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/mail\/id1108187098<br \/>\nApple News+ https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apple-news\/<br \/>\nKeyboard Maestro https:\/\/www.keyboardmaestro.com\/<br \/>\nOmniOutliner https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/omnioutliner<br \/>\nPixelmator Pro https:\/\/www.pixelmator.com\/<br \/>\nTextSoap https:\/\/textsoap.com\/<br \/>\nStream Deck https:\/\/amzn.to\/42QLqhX (US), https:\/\/amzn.to\/42Ccdy4 (UK)<br \/>\nFinal Cut Pro for iPad https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/final-cut-pro-for-ipad\/id1631624924<br \/>\nPhotos https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/guide\/photos\/welcome\/mac<br \/>\nLogic Pro https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/logic-pro\/id634148309?mt=12<br \/>\nWhere to? https:\/\/www.futuretap.com\/apps\/whereto<br \/>\nFantastical https:\/\/fantastical.app\/<br \/>\nAmazon https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/amazon\/id335187483<br \/>\nKindle https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/amazon-kindle\/id302584613<br \/>\nHookmark https:\/\/hookproductivity.com\/<br \/>\nShortcuts https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/shortcuts\/id915249334<br \/>\nSiri https:\/\/www.apple.com\/siri\/<br \/>\nTextExpander https:\/\/textexpander.com\/<br \/>\nHazel https:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/<br \/>\nHBClock https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/hbclock\/id417586530?mt=12<br \/>\nApple Music https:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/apple-music\/<br \/>\nSlack https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/slack\/id618783545<\/p>\n<p>SCRIPT:<br \/>\n&#8211; INTRO<br \/>\n&#8211; Right then, as I record this, it\u2019s Sunday and I\u2019ve just finished an hour-long live 58keys writing sprint session &#8211; if you\u2019d like to know more, follow the links to my Patreon page &#8211; but I want to talk to you about Friday, June 9, 2023.<br \/>\n&#8211; For this reason. I\u2019d like to recommend a whole bunch of Mac, iPhone and iPad apps to you but rather than it just be some random collection, here\u2019s everything I used \u2014 in sequence \u2014 last Friday.<br \/>\n&#8211; TITLES<br \/>\n&#8211; Hello, I\u2019m William Gallagher and this is 58keys, which as ever, as always, is for writers like you and me who use and write on Macs, iPhones and iPads. Do subscribe, because there is so much to talk about.and this time, slightly less than I expected.<br \/>\n&#8211; It seems this One Day in the App Life has become an annual thing and for this second-ever one, I had plans. I was going to show you action shots, such as this:<br \/>\n&#8211; CLIP FROM SECURITY CAMERA (IN BLACK AND WHITE)<br \/>\n&#8211; Please don\u2019t look too closely at that, It was early Friday morning but overnight I\u2019d had an allergic reaction to something and my top lip ballooned out. So I could forget shooting anything in Filmic Pro Legacy and using the Filmic Pro Remote, so that was two fewer apps than I expected.<br \/>\n&#8211; But while I couldn\u2019t film me using them all, I still had to use the lot. So let me tell you that for 2022\u2019s version of this, I used 36 apps and for this one day in 2023, I used\u2026 44.<br \/>\n&#8211; This is the list, but we\u2019re not going to go through them all because it\u2019s coin toss whether you\u2019d nod off first or I would. Instead, look at these.<br \/>\n&#8211; Four apps that were entirely new to me this year, and one that has a new name. Let\u2019s examine those. And in the case of two of them, examine them very quickly.<br \/>\n&#8211; STING<br \/>\n&#8211; First up, CleanShot X. This has to be quick because there is already a 58keys edition devoted entirely to this screen-grabbing tool. You know that you can take screenshots of whatever\u2019s on your Mac screen, you know you can do this with any Mac right out of the box, but CleanShot X does it better \u2014 and does more.<br \/>\n&#8211; Specifically, scrolling capture. You have a loooong web page, it\u2019ll grab the lot.<br \/>\n&#8211; Do take a look at the full video just about that, link in the show notes, and a warning that I gush over it. That was just exactly two months ago and I use it even more now, despite having been away for one of those two months.<br \/>\n&#8211; STING<br \/>\n&#8211; Next, the name-change one. This, too, has a full previous 58keys, in fact it has a couple of them. One when it was just called Hook, and another when it became Hookmark. Let me explain if you haven\u2019t found it already, that Hookmark lets you link everything together.<br \/>\n&#8211; The example I use most often is a magazine that I might edit every other quarter or so. I can be in Affinity Designer, laying out the page, when I realise the client asked for something specific in an email. Two clicks and I am in that email reading it. And then back in the page layout app, or now in a folder with all the content, or now in Pages writing rejection letters for all the articles in this other folder.<br \/>\n&#8211; You take a moment to gather all of these places together, then you fly between them. It gets so you don\u2019t understand why Macs wouldn\u2019t just work this way already.<br \/>\n&#8211; Watch the Hookmark video because it\u2019s actually an interview with the developer and he talks you and I through what it does.<br \/>\n&#8211; STING<br \/>\n&#8211; Another entirely new one &#8211; ish. It wasn\u2019t on last year\u2019s list but I have dabbled in it, I just go through stages where I dabble more. It\u2019s Logic Pro, an audio editor.<br \/>\n&#8211; So last Friday, I started around 7am doing writing a Self Distract blog in MarsEdit, then making some a plan for an event in OmniOutliner, making some notes in Drafts, yeah, yeah, then from 10am to about 6pm I was booked writing for AppleInsider dot com and that came with a bunch of other apps I needed to use, then the very last thing I did in that day was write the AppleInsider Daily podcast \u2014 in OmniOutliner \u2014 then record it in Logic Pro.<br \/>\n&#8211; I would bet money that if you haven\u2019t used Logic Pro or any other audio editor, that you would say it isn\u2019t a writing tool. Because you\u2019d be right. But hold that thought for a minute.<br \/>\n&#8211; I adore Logic Pro and I am a bit daunted by it. I\u2019ve seen amazing work done in that app by musicians and I have never and doubtlessly will never get to that level. But every time I use Logic Pro, I come away giddy with how good it is.<br \/>\n&#8211; But let me be clear. In this case, I mean Logic Pro for the Mac. That\u2019s what I have, that\u2019s what I was using, and until about a month ago, there wasn\u2019t any other version of it. Now there is, now there\u2019s Logic Pro for the iPad, and it was launched alongside the last of my apps for the year, Final Cut Pro for iPad. And I want to talk to you about that.<br \/>\n&#8211; STING<br \/>\n&#8211; That thing I said about Logic Pro being and not being a writing tool, I think it is and I think the reason for it goes at least as much for video editor Final Cut Pro.<br \/>\n&#8211; Video and audio editing uses the same mental muscles you and I have to have with writing. They can all be painstaking jobs, but more than that, these tools are for communicating, you need to think about what you\u2019re saying, how you\u2019re saying it. You need to think about rhythm and pace. Just the way you might spend an embarrassingly long time making fine adjustments to a sentence, you spend that on a scene or a track.<br \/>\n&#8211; And to me, video and audio editing are both so satisfying \u2014 and so, educational. I once shot a long 58keys episode from a script I thought I\u2019d honed down, but when I came to edit the filmed version, I was able to totally cut out twelve minutes.<br \/>\n&#8211; Twelve minutes of me yapping on.<br \/>\n&#8211; And I\u2019ve been steadily learning from this, how to know just what must be said and what doesn\u2019t have to be, what\u2019s superflouous.<br \/>\n&#8211; But.<br \/>\n&#8211; I believed I learned that a little from Logic Pro on the Mac, and a very great deal from Final Cut Pro on the Mac. I adore Final Cut Pro.<br \/>\n&#8211; So when I was on holiday and I saw a headline about Final Cut Pro finally coming to the iPad, I was wide-eyed with excitement. I mentioned Patreon earlier, I went on my Patreon page and asked people, would it be mad to do a 58keys about a video editing app?<br \/>\n&#8211; Everyone was very nice.<br \/>\n&#8211; I suspect they also realised that they could just skip that episode.<br \/>\n&#8211; But, it turns, out, there won\u2019t be a 58keys about Final Cut Pro \u2014 on the iPad.<br \/>\n&#8211; Because I\u2019m cancelling my subscription. Cancelling it before the trial period ends.<br \/>\n&#8211; Look, it is very, very good. I love that Final Cut Pro is on the iPad and I enjoyed editing a whole 58keys on it \u2014 except it couldn\u2019t be a whole 58keys. Without boring you with the details, there was this tiny last thing I just could not do without coming back to Final Cut Pro on the Mac.<br \/>\n&#8211; There are tiny things missing on the iPad version, there are some big things missing too. Those will come, I\u2019m sure, and I expect I will end up using it a lot in the future. The ability to just pick up a pane of glass and do all of your work from writing to editing, it is now close to irresistible and it will surely be whole irresistible soon.<br \/>\n&#8211; Maybe, if you\u2019d indulge me, I could do a whole 58keys about Final Cut Pro for the Mac. There are better editors than me, obviously, but I could try showing you why I think it\u2019s &#8211; I think it might not be a writing tool, but it is a writers\u2019 tool.<br \/>\n&#8211; Unless I\u2019ve just said everything such an episode would say.<br \/>\n&#8211; Anyway. I did use Final Cut Pro for the iPad on Friday, I used Logic Pro on the Mac to make a podcast, and there were these forty-odd other apps.<br \/>\n&#8211; Just for completeness, I used them across ten devices or pieces of equipment. This lot here.<br \/>\n&#8211; And for very completeness, for some reason last year I did also count how many mugs of tea I drank during the day and it was a surprising \u2014 to me \u2014 four. Only four.<br \/>\n&#8211; Whereas for this one day in 2023, I drank\u2026 three.<br \/>\n&#8211; But look, my lip was swollen. I\u2019ll do better in June 2024.<br \/>\n&#8211; In the meantime, that\u2019s it for this edition of 58keys. All of the links for the apps and prices for the main ones are in the show notes. But for now, thank you for watching, take care of yourself, write more, and I\u2019ll see you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year running, here&#8217;s a complete list of the apps I wrote with during one day &#8212; plus &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/2023\/06\/14\/one-day-x-apps-y-mugs-of-tea-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/58keys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}