Will be keen to hear about the PC workflows on this one as I use Windows at work.
Just started listening and sheās an Australian! 
Nice guest choice! Looking forward to this.
Funny, I wasnāt all that interested in much of the content, but Kaitlin is a fantastic guest - so engaging!
Thanks, all! It was great fun and an honour! Hope I did MPU justice and keep you all entertained while you fold laundry or commute or whatever you do while you listen to podcasts. 
As a follow-up to one point in the episode: I checked, and after selecting multiple Live Photos in the Photos app there is definitely a āSave As Videoā option!
Iām afraid you may be disappointed on that front! I donāt have any great adviceā¦!
Thanks very much for this episode and especially to Kaitlin. V good and interesting. Best wishes
Great episode! My wife enjoyed listening as well in the car which is high praise from her.
I definitely sympathized with @Kaitlin not having great solutions for the PC at work lifestyle. Iāve tried using the personal iPad at work to use my preferred apps but just never had a good experience with it. I eventually landed on Todoist and Notion as ānot horribleā Windows apps to use exclusively for work, but I still dream of finding a Mac-friendly workplace one day.
Great show and thanks to @Kaitlin for taking the time to share her ideas and workflows!
I also sympathize with a Windows and Mac lifestyle. My work requires Windows and I donāt really have the ability to link any external services (even web ones are VERY limited) to my work machine. And I canāt have personal devices in my workspace. So I have just had to live the āWindows at work; Mac at homeā lifestyle.
I will say, it gives me an appreciation for what Windows can do. Itās come a long way, and I donāt despise it like many do. But it really makes me happy when Iām home again on my Mac!
Iāll echo that: fantastic show. And I have no interest whatsoever in OmniFocus!
More guests from far-flung places and with different kinds of jobs and workflows, please!
Au contraire, one of the ābenefitsā of Windows is you have far less options, as a brief read of topics here will vouch for, considering the amount of āapp switchingā that goes on! Windows apps may suck but if itās all youāve got ā¦ 
One of my favorite guests. I too am not an Omni Focus user but really enjoyed this one. Really appreciated the positive energy.
Great episode! I was inspired to check out OmniFocus Automation after listening to @Kaitlin discuss her workflows with @timstringer at Learn OmniFocus a few months back. In particular Kaitlinās āTemplates for OmniFocusā plug-in has proven really useful to me, and has encouraged me to engage in an ongoing project to identify what repeating projects I might convert to templates since this plug-in is both so useful and so powerful. Thank you Kaitlin! And I will echo what was said in the podcast itself: if you are an OmniFocus user, you should really check out Omni Automation!
Another way to make automations if you arenāt comfortable writing them from scratch: ask ChatGPT! Thereās a shell script that Iāve been putting off writing for ages, and listening to this episode made me think of asking ChatGPT to write it for me.
NB: Please know what youāre doing so you can see if ChatGPT is making mistakes. And test your script on something not mission-critical.
During the show, David mentioned something about Better Touch Tool and using it to add data to the menubar. Can anyone elaborate on that? I canāt find any mentions of this in the BTT release notes or Google. Thanks!
I just did nearly four months on a job that required me to use Windows.
For most of my career, Iāve mixed work and personal use on a single computer, but at my job-before-last that was a source of stress for me, so instead this time around I decided to keep work and personal use separate.
In practice, that meant using Microsoft OneDrive to store all my work documents, which I was then able to access from my Mac. But I seldom used that access. I worked 100% from a home office. I did work on Windows, and my Windows laptop was side-by-side on my home office desk with the MacBook.
I tried a couple of KVM switches but I was never able to get them to work reliably. Instead, I just switched the cable between computers when I wanted to switch which computers I used. I also have a Logitech multi-device trackball and keyboard. The Logitech hardware comes with software that supposedly allows you to slide the mouse pointer between machines, and the keyboard and mouse focus will follow. I found that software was unreliable. But the hardware has switches that are easy to toggle. So that was a good solution.
I also used my personal iPhone to access work email, Teams, and calendar. The job required me to install Microsoft device-management software on my iPhone. I hesitated about that for a bit but then said to myself, sure, why not? Iām already trusting the employer with a lot more than my iPhone. And indeed there as no problem; when I left the job I uninstalled the Microsoft MDM software from my iPhone and got on with things.
I used Outlook for email and calendar.
Regarding finding open times to meet: Outlook has a fantastic feature called āschedule assistant.ā You can see which times are available on another personās calendar, and just drop in an appointment. Works for group meetings too. At the company where I used windows, people just dropped appointments on other peopleās calendars without even talking with them first. At first that sounds rude, but in fact itās fantastic. Workplace etiquette was that the recipient of the invitation could feel free to ask for clarification or reschedule if the time was inconvenient. Completely eliminates the back-and-forth in email about finding mutually convenient times. So: No need for Fantastical.
For note taking, I tried OneNote but didnāt like it as much as Obsidian. So I went with Obsidian. That worked well. I use a lot of Microsoft Office documents in my career, and Obsidian plays well with those. You canāt edit the documents within Obsidian, but you can manage and open them.
I never found a task management solution I was happy with. Microsoft Tasks was too basic for me. I went with TickTick, but didnāt love it. Todoist is better, except for one feature that I find essentialāin a filter view, I need to be able to manually reorder tasks. Ticktick lets you do that, and Todoist does not. When I left the job that requires Windows, I gratefully went back to Apple Reminders.
(I have lately become persuaded by Carl Pulleinās advice that you should stop using your task manager as a project manager, so nowadays if a project is too complicated to manage in Reminders, I put the task list in Obsidian, and simply have āWork on Project Xā as a task in Reminders. Iām not rigorous about thisāIām embracing sloppiness in my task management system.
I started a topic on using Windows when I took the job in September.
Iām glad it worked for you. Something like that would have made my job impossible.
I was inspired to check out OmniFocus Automation after listening to @Kaitlin discuss her workflows with @timstringer at Learn OmniFocus
Great to hear you enjoyed Kaitlinās session on Learn OmniFocus. It was a treat to have her as a guest!
In particular Kaitlinās āTemplates for OmniFocusā plug-in has proven really useful to me, and has encouraged me to engage in an ongoing project to identify what repeating projects I might convert to templates since this plug-in is both so useful and so powerful.
Great! I use Kaitlinās āTemplates for OmniFocusā plug-in regularly (in addition to some of her excellent plug-ins). Itās feature-rich, well-documented, and adds convenience and consistency to OmniFocus.
Sounded crazy to me when I first heard about it, but it was actually an effective way to work. Cut through a lot of back and forth.