Mac Power Users 450: MPU+:I'm a Big Phone Guy

[omarruvalcaba]

I think it’s just what they use. You could say the same about OmniFocus and any Apple made app. But I think it’s just what they use on a daily basis. They don’t review the other options until they have an episode about that type of app.

@vco1

Not a single word on the frustration with Fujitsu’s support of the ScanSnap scanners on Mojave that got quite some attention on the forum. Are the commercial stakes too high to touch this subject?

The same goes for MPU’s support of Smile (in general, not in this episode). As becomes apparent from reading this forum neither TextExpander nor PDFPen (Pro) are everybody’s favorites. Still Katie and David keep up the appearance as if these are the only programs in their respective categories (I.e. text expansion and pdf reading/editing).

And to a lesser extend this could also be said about password managers. Sometimes I get the impression - not just form the MPU, but from the Mac community as a whole - that 1Password is about the only app in its genre. While there definitely are tools that are equally good. And less expensive. I’m a happy and satisfied user of the SafeInCloud password manager. Which lacks some of the fancy features of 1Password, but does what it should do, offers extensions for all major browsers and has options that I haven’t found in other password managers (most importantly the option to sync via many different cloud services, including WebDAV).

I wish the Mac Powers Users would be a little bit more “adventurous”. It’s a bit too much of the same (Omnifocus, Hazel, PDFPen, Workflow/Shortcuts, etc.) lately. All IMHO of course.

[Robert]

The categories for screentime are really ridiculous. Spotify is entertainment and Overcast is reference. Both should be something like „audio“, because there’s really a difference between using your phone and driving while listening to something.
Also, while I‘d love to pretend so, Discourse really isn’t „productivity“ to me …

[RichardC]

Categories set aside… Looking at time on app is interesting.

[RosemaryOrchard]

These are set by which the primary category is on the App Store. Hopefully we’ll see more fine grained categorisation in the future - and maybe even the ability to split things inside the app with some kind of “donation” from the app to the system.

[YellowFrogToaster]

I suspect we’ll see apps adjusting their categories in the App Store to be more relevant for screentime.

I wonder when we’ll see the first app change it’s category to help get around screentime restrictions “No, no, Facebook is a productivity tool not a social media app so your 30 minute a day cap doesn’t apply”

[Jonathan_Davis]

I too wish for improvements on Screentime. What I have done though is enabled Downtime so I can get to bed on time. I’d like to be able to modify it for the weekend’s and would hope this would be a future option.