Automation

The second annual Automation April event, hosted by Federico Viticci and John Voorhees at MacStories, is just one day away from wrapping up. I just completed my submissions and I’m looking forward to trying all of the winning Shortcuts!

If you’re at least somewhat interested in optimizing your personal productivity there’s a good chance that you use also use a todo list app. If so, you likely spend a lot of time multi-tasking between your calendar and todo list — literally correlating your calendar events (when is my next meeting?) with your todo list (what is my next task?) in an effort to optimize your productivity. If you are just now realizing that you do this all the time, and that this is actually quite inefficient, then this post is for you!

The 2022 operating system updates from Apple will bring a much needed improvement to Mail.app: the ability to schedule emails to send later. While Apple is playing catch up here, it still lags behind on a similar ability for Messages.app.

This post explores a simple workaround to schedule text messages to send later on iPhone, iPad, and Mac that doesn’t require any third-party apps.