Hello and welcome to Mac Power Users. My name is Stephen Hackett. I'm joined as always by my friend and yours, Mr. David Sparks.

Hello, Mr. Hackett. How are you today? I am good. How are you?

I am dealing with news here because I woke up this morning, ready to make Mac power users and found out that Apple

launched a creator studio, Apple Creator Studio, a new suite of subscription software from our

favorite fruit company. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to get into that. We were, we had a whole

show. We're going to still do what we planned, but we're going to insert that at the top. So we're going to talk about that. But you have some very exciting news. Yeah, I've been teasing it in the show the last few weeks. The Apple Productivity Field Guide for 2026 Lives. Thank you, everybody who's been asking about it. We've got links in the show notes. You can check it out. This is a weird

one for me. You know, I do it every year. It is where I don't really talk about, you know,

Apple scripts and nerdy techniques as much as just, you know, how to figure out what's important

to you and do your thing.

We did a show on this last year, so I'm not going to go over it all again.

But I went on a journey over the course of my life where I figured out a system that works

for me and accidentally started sharing it with people and then intentionally did when I

started releasing the Apple productivity, or not the Mac Sparky productivity field guide.

It's been a thing I've been doing for a couple years now.

And in some ways, I think it's probably the most important thing I've ever done because

I get these emails from people talking about how it has really helped them.

One of my favorites was somebody wrote me and said, yeah, my wife noticed

I was a better person before I did. And I thought, well, oh, wow. Hey, Sparky, you're doing okay.

And it's a thing that I feel like my grandchildren could probably read some day and get something

out of it. I mean, I'm not sure Devon think will still be around then, but these concepts will.

So it's a virtue-based

system, kind of based on the ancient Greeks, the idea that you want to be your best self.

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