Thursday, July 09, 2026

Managing a corrupted Notes.app encrypted Note that cannot be deleted

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So this can happen. An Apple Notes.app phrase-encrypted Note can throw up an error message saying it hit some internal storage limit. If you...
Monday, July 06, 2026

Working around the Reminders Sort All Items problem.

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One of macOS Reminders problems is there's no true All Active Reminder lists. There's an All Item view but it has fixed categories s...
Thursday, July 02, 2026

Using Apple Notes Note in place of a Reminders note field - the Shortcut workaround

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Update   In practice this has been much more useful than I imagined, particularly once I became aware that Apple Reminder subtasks are toxic...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

My macOS ai coding projects to date

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This is a reference post - mostly for my own use. Over the past few months I've used ai coding tools to create several personal solution...

Migrating from Microsoft To Do to Apple Reminders

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I've used Microsoft's To Do app for several years but Microsoft has failed to fix a number of annoying bugs. Meanwhile Apple Reminde...
Thursday, April 02, 2026

My new favorite utility - a Claude-built python app for turning macOS Preview PDF highlights into a plaintext list

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I've asked Claude to build me a few tools, but my new favorite is a macOS droplet that turns macOS Preview PDF highlighted text into a p...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Canon BR-E1 remote blinking red when used with Canon Digital Rebel SL2: Bluetooth repairing

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My Canon BR-E1 remote was blinking red when I tried to use it with my Canon Digital Rebel (DR) SL2, aka EOS 200D. Perplexity ai answers were...