Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Create a macOS desktop shortcut (.inetloc) that deep links to a specific note in Notes.app

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Writing this up quickly, I might get back to it later. I want to have a shortcut to a specific macOS Notes.app note that I can put in a fold...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Porting a landline number to a secondary Ting eSIM on iPhone with primary AT&T account

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This was much harder than I expected it to be. Below is a simplified account of what eventually succeeded. I actually started out by trying ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Move your existing Greenlight account to the free US Bank option: you can't do it on macOS desktop

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If you have a GreenLight family debit card and are a US Bank checking customer, you can, in theory, link the GreenLight account to the US B...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

Word Services in macOS Sequoia: reenabling after migration

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When I migrated from Mojave to Sequoia (with a pause at Monterey I think) I lost the word services I liked. Today I finally investigated and...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Managing the incredibly annoying Apple Wallet notifications on Sequoia

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I loathe Apple's notifications center on macOS. The notifications constantly get in the way of my work, and the most unstoppable ones ar...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

RIP Simplenote -- data freedom and the painless plaintext migration to Notes

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[UPDATE: Simplenote tech support is working on a fix for the bug that manifested with 15.3.1. I have migrated for several reasons so I will ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Creating a macOS Spotlight indexed archive of completed tasks and notes: Microsoft To Do via Outlook.com PDF

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I like having local Spotlight indexed "standard" file format archives of completed tasks and calendar items. This is not a popular...