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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

My Chatbot Ate My Inbox

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

My Chatbot Ate My Inbox – Mac Geek Gab 1130 episode image

You start this episode leveling up your daily workflows with fast, memorable tweaks: styling text in Notes with a long press, dropping today’s date into Google Sheets with a quick shortcut, testing your real-world network speed from the Mac, and turning any clipboard grab into a Preview window so you can annotate or export in a flash. You also learn that canceling an in‑app subscription doesn’t instantly nuke Family Sharing, why Safari’s pinned tabs might be quietly chewing resources, and how to right-size your browser use so it serves you instead of hijacking your Mac.

From there, you dive into practical tools for real life: apps to tame your family’s book library, a screensaver utility that slows things down, and current router picks spanning UniFi, TP-Link Wi‑Fi 7 options, Eero, and Orbi so your network actually matches your workloads.

You hear how to orchestrate multiple AI agents, safely archive and truly back up your mail, and keep your own chatbot from eating your inbox, plus Cool Stuff Found like Omerta, YouTube on Apple Vision Pro, and more—because in the Apple tech world, as in life, Don’t Get Caught without the right tools and backups in place.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Matt Kee Cabin.

0:02.4

Listener, Tom brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:06.5

He says, I found out by chance that when you long press on the like uppercase, lowercase, A in notes, like when you're typing, you see at the bottom, there's a little bar with all your tools and you can hit the A1 to get all the things.

0:18.2

But if you long press that one, it presents a quick access menu to the most common text style so you can change it to heading or dashed list or bulleted list or numbers list.

0:30.3

Super helpful when you want to quickly switch between different styles.

0:34.1

I can't believe I was literally looking for this for years, and I can't believe I never

0:39.0

thought to long press that. Tom, you are a lifesaver. More quick tips like this, plus your

0:45.8

questions answered today on MacGeekab 1130 for Monday, February 23rd Pinocchio Day.

0:54.6

But we promise not to let our noses grow 2026.

1:00.3

Woo-hoo. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Keek of the show where we share quick tips like, quick tips like that.

1:22.2

No quick ticks.

1:23.0

I had enough with ticks this summer.

1:24.8

Done with those.

1:25.7

Quick tips like that.

1:28.0

We share cool stuff found.

1:29.5

We share questions.

1:30.7

Hopefully answers to the questions.

1:32.2

The goal is that each and every single one of us will learn at least five new things every single time we get together.

1:39.5

I certainly have already learned one and it's going to be hard to top the value for that for me but

1:45.0

we're going to try over the next 70 to 90 minutes here uh make sure you go to macgeeb

1:53.0

com slash giveaway to enter our giveaway for co-pilot money this month and congrats to january's

1:58.2

winner of our c s sponsorship software grab bag to Amanda

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