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Mac Power Users

820: The Apple Productivity Suite Field Guide

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

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Mac Power Users. My name is Stephen Hackett. I'm joined by the man of the hour, Mr. David Sparks. How are you? Hello, Stephen. How are you today, buddy? I'm good. I am good. There's a new field guide. We're going to talk all about that. Very excited to hear about that. Congratulations.

0:22.1

Thank you. It's been a journey. It always is, but it feels good. We're actually recording this

0:27.5

the day of launch and it feels really good to wake up today and have this thing in the world.

0:33.1

Yeah, that's great. Before we dive into it, we got a little housekeeping.

0:39.4

Okay, well, the first thing is, I have a new field guide. It's the Apple Productivity Suite

0:44.1

Field Guide. It focuses on notes, reminders, free form, and calendar. And we've been talking

0:50.4

on the show for years, how Apple has taken these apps from kind of joke status to

0:55.8

real status. And I thought it was time to give it the old field guide treatment. And so I've been,

1:02.2

we'll get into it in the show, but I've been putting a lot of time into them. I think it's really

1:05.6

great. And there is a launch discount for the Mac Power Users audience, M-P-U launch, M-P-U-L-A-U-N-C-H, gets you 10% off for a limited time. We'll put a link in the notes. You can go check it out. Yeah, yeah, please do. I've been through it, and it's incredible, as always. And on more Power users, we're going to talk about some of the behind-the-scenes, the creation of the field guide. What do you do when all the OSs look differently? All of a sudden, all that stuff we're going to be talking about for members. So if you love MPU and you want to hear more of the show with no ads, check out the link in the show notes to join more power users.

1:44.5

Yeah. I have really evolved the process over the last few years, and it's probably not

1:49.6

that interesting to everybody, but if you want to get the details and more power users,

1:53.6

we're going to dig it deep on that.

1:55.1

Yeah, I love it.

1:56.3

It's such a big project, I know.

1:59.1

So the Apple Productivity Suite Field guide, you've got two versions,

2:04.7

Pro and Essentials. You've done this now several times, kind of two different versions. What are

2:12.2

the differences here and where should people look? Yeah. So the course itself is nearly 100 videos. It alters

2:21.2

because I combined some of them at the last minute, but it's just under 100 videos,

2:24.9

the about five hours worth of content. And like I said earlier, it covers calendar,

2:31.3

reminders, notes, and freeform, and it digs really deep on them covering all the

2:35.2

details now the essentials version of the course which is $49 before discount gets you all that so

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