Should You Use Automater or Short Cuts?

Special guest Rosemary Orchard joins the show to talk about her new book, Take Control of Shortcuts, and the state of automation on iOS and MacOS.

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Links:

• Rosemary’s blog.
• Automators — Rosemary’s podcast cohosted with David Sparks.
• Nested Folders — Rosemary’s productivity podcast, cohosted with Scotty Jackson.
• iOS Today at TWiT.
• Author Danny Goodman, whose Complete HyperCard Handbook sold 650,000 copies in the late 1980s.
• “The Right Way to Pop Your AirPods Out of the Case” — yours truly YouTubing back in 2017.
• “Life finds a way” — Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park.
• Pushcut — “Triggers, notifications, and widgets for Shortcuts, Home, and online automation”.
• WidgetPack — “Create your own widgets with Shortcuts.”
• Matthew Cassenelli, Shortcuts expert and author.
• Chris Lawley’s YouTube productivity tips channel.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.