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Mac Power Users

806: Automators Takeover

Mac Power Users

Relay

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

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Mac Power Users. I'm David Sparks. Stephen couldn't make it today, so we've got a little bit of an automator's takeover. Welcome back to the Mac Power users, Rosemary. How are you doing?

0:14.7

I'm doing great, David. Thanks for having me back. And I know Stephen is secretly just really scared that we're going to automate everything in his house.

0:21.9

So that's obviously why he's not here this week.

0:24.5

That's why he booked this week his vacation, right?

0:26.7

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

0:29.0

So for Rosemary Orchards on the show, I think most folks know you, Rose.

0:34.3

But for those who don't, Rose and I ran a show called Automators on the Relay Network for several years.

0:40.0

That show retired late last year. And I knew Stephen was going to be out. I said, this is great. It gives me a chance to bring my old pal Rose in.

0:48.3

And we can talk about automation type topics, shortcuts. And also, Rose, who is a developer, has a new application

0:57.2

on the market. Tell us about your new app, Rose. Yeah, so it's called Capsule, and it is a

1:03.5

medication tracker. And the purpose behind it was to really make medication tracking really

1:09.1

easy and in your face in a good way because the problem

1:13.2

that a lot of people have with the Apple Health app is it's kind of hidden, like finding your

1:18.1

medications and logging them and so on and so forth. And it just gets a little bit messy and there's

1:23.1

not really ways to do a lot of the things that you want to do with it. So about five years ago,

1:29.9

believe it or not, two friends and I sat down and started trying to make an app together. And we

1:35.6

started building capsule. And then a few things happened along the way. Let's call them side quests.

1:41.7

But yeah, we finally got around to releasing it. So it's got tags. So if you

1:45.1

have a pet or you're a carer or you have children, then you can use tags to organize things between,

1:50.9

you know, different animals and people. Or you can use tags to organize things between, you know,

1:55.5

different things that you might be managing with medication. It has schedules or interval-based medicines. So you can say,

2:02.1

hey, I want to take this at 9.30 every day. Or I want to take this every six hours. Or just,

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