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New Drop: The 2022 Focus Course Digital Planner
The 2022 Focus Course Digital Planner
The ultimate combination of analog and digital productivity tools.
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Apps and Gear for the Holidays, 2021 Edition
Apps and Gear for the Holidays, 2021 Edition
A few of our favorite things for making the holidays brighter.
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A Photo Essay of the 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro
The New MacBook Pro: A Photo Essay
A close look at the design of the new 14-inch MacBook Pro.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Craft: Daily Notes
A Beginner’s Guide to Craft
Making the most of Craft's Daily Notes feature.
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Obsidian vs. Roam vs. LogSeq: Which PKM App is Right For You?
Obsidian vs. Roam Research vs. LogSeq
Find out which PKM app is best for you.
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A Few of Our Favorite Obsidian Plugins
Essential Obsidian Plugins
A few of our favorite plugins for Obsidian with workflow examples.
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The Best Time Tracking App
Timery
Timery is best time tracking app on any platform because it gives you powerful iOS widgets and virtually limitless automation possibilities with phenomenal Shortcuts support.
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The Best Habit Tracking App for iOS
Streaks
Streaks gives you useful widgets, integration with Apple Health, phenomenal Shortcuts support, and everything you need to build good habits (or break bad ones).
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The Latest Posts

An Early Look at Matter on the Web

Matter is a relatively new read-it-later service that's been getting a good amount of attention, including several features here on The Sweet Setup. It may be simplifying history a bit, but the very broad strokes version of this market is that Instapaper popularized it, Pocket took it really mainstream, and Matter wants to do right by those of us who loved Instapaper but never really clicked with Pocket. »

1Password 8’s Quick Access and Universal Autofill Features Can Replace Your Previous Password Workflows

No matter who you are, a password manager should be the first tool installed on your device. Each day that goes by, a new insidious hack is devised to trick a vulnerable person into a scam. One of the best ways to combat these hacking attempts is to use strong passwords. »

Turning Obsidian Into a Task Management System, Some Interesting Links, and More

Catch up on what we published this week, including a multi-post series on using Obsidian as a custom task management system. »

Obsidian Task Management Notifications

One additional aspect of task management, which we have yet to talk about in Obsidian, is the ability to trigger system-wide notifications on your Mac, which can take you straight to the task that you need to complete. This works exactly like any other notification that you might get from a dedicated task management app like OmniFocus or Things. But it's pretty cool that you can set this up inside of Obsidian and combine it with the Obsidian Tasks plugin to create these notifications and even mark things as complete from Notification Center on your Mac. »

Obsidian Task Management Review

Another essential component of a lot of dedicated task management apps is some sort of review functionality that can help you facilitate a Getting Things Done (or GTD) style weekly review. And this is just where you look at a project like this Obsidian task management project where I have all of these different tasks associated with the different videos in this series, and make sure that everything is up to date and correct. »