The Best Apps: Our Picks and Recommendations for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Best App for Using Your iPad as a Second Monitor or External Display
Sidecar
Sidecar is the best app for using your iPad as an external display on macOS Catalina Macs and iPadOS 13 iPads.
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The Best iPad Keyboard Shortcuts
iPad Keyboard Shortcuts
A list of keyboard shortcuts for iPad users to save you time and be more productive.
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Goodie Goodie! The GoodNotes Course is Here
GoodNotes Templates and More
Our brand-new course for GoodNotes is here.
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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. »

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