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Mac Power Users

673: Apple's New Freeform App

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

It's not every day that Apple releases a new productivity app, but with iOS 16.2 and macOS Ventura 13.1, the company launched Freeform, an infinite canvas app for sketching, organizing and sharing information. David and Stephen have been using it extensively and break it all down this week.

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users Episode 673, Apple's Freeform app.

0:12.2

Hello, everyone. This is David Sparks. I am joined today by my friend and co-host,

0:16.6

Mr. Steven Hacken. How are you today, Steven?

0:18.6

I'm good, David. Happy New Year.

0:20.4

Yes. Happy New Year, everybody. I hope you all had a good holiday season. Maybe today or,

0:26.0

I don't know. What do you do on New Year? You watch football, watch parades.

0:29.8

Yeah. You know, eat some snacks, hang with some friends, recover from last night, whatever

0:34.4

you're doing. That's right. I hope you're enjoying a little Mac Power Users to go along with that.

0:39.3

Yeah. And I think, unless something's on the schedule, I'm not sure if I think we're the first

0:44.0

relay show out for 2023 because we release on Sundays and New Year's Sunday this year.

0:49.2

That was awesome. We're starting it off right now. That's right. Yeah.

0:53.8

We're going to talk about that at the end. Today, for more Power Users subscribers,

0:57.2

we're going to talk about some of our New Year's kind of like planning and rituals we go through

1:02.5

as we head into the New Year each year. I think it'd be kind of fun. There's actually a tech bit

1:06.0

of that for me, some looking forward to talking about that. But yeah, we're all good. You know,

1:11.0

one other bit of housekeeping. A friend of mine, Chris Bailey, wrote a really good book called,

1:14.8

How to Call Me Your Mind. Just released a few days ago. And I watch Chris go through the process

1:20.7

of Ryan's book over the last three years. And it's just excellent. And I would recommend,

1:24.9

as Mac Power users listeners, if you want to give a fellow nerd some support, this is a book you

1:29.1

should check out. It's about, you know, the problems we talk about here sometimes, how, you know,

1:33.2

everything gets a little overwhelming, particularly with the tech and ways to deal with that. And

1:37.8

excellent book. If you do get it, give him an Amazon review, give a fellow nerd some help.

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