The hype of the latest and greatest app and how it changes up the world. I am guilty of the cycle.
(Drafts, Omnifocus, Notion, Craft, Roam, Obsidian, etc)
I won’t even get into the whole ‘callback URL’ stuff. I keep creating more work for myself but still less productive, because I spend time creating, adjusting, the ‘production environment’ 
I worked in I.T. for just over 25 years and I didn’t have time to constantly tweak my productivity stack. Once I found something that worked it stayed much the same, especially during my last five years. I sometimes wonder how much time is lost these days by people trying to improve their productivity?
When there used to be a female cohost there used to be difference of opinions and the arguments were interesting to listen. Best of both worlds. Now I don’t see that happening. Its mostly the hosts are in sync 
I don’t even think it would have to be a female cohost - just somebody who isn’t a professional podcaster as a primary career. In the current incarnation, that requires a guest to accomplish.
Not that there would be anything wrong with a female cohost, of course. But if there was suddenly a female cohost that’s was also a podcaster as a primary job, I’m not sure it would be as much of an improvement.
This x 1000! I still listen and the guests are great, but part of what made David and Katie such a great listen was they talked about how they integrated tech into their professional (non podcaster/creator) lives. There is a severe feedback loop in the productivity genre in the podcast and YouTube world.
I still love the podcast and the guests are great, but it’s a very different show for me.
I got the idea Katie was souring on Apple toward the end of her time on MPU, with her bad experiences with her MacBook Pro.
Unless you’re George R.R. Martin, who famously stuck with WordStar for writing and LiveJournal for blogging for decades after everybody else had abandoned those tools.
I wonder where she ended up with it. I hope she’s a guest at some time!
Ditto. Because I live in New Zealand and we live in the future, the show lands mid-Monday morning, and I look forward to it so much every week.
The should call the show Mac OCD users or MOCD users. 
This and your further explanation are great. I’ve been moving toward that style of tracking for all my AnimalTrakker and LambTracker bugs, features etc. It does really lend itself to working in Obsidian to the point that I no longer use OF to track that area of focus and all its related projects.
The Butterfly keyboard was great!
I didn’t really have issues with it breaking. A key got stuck a couple of times, but it would work itself out within a few hours. I got the free replacement nearly 4 years after my purchase, and it was flawless after that replacement.
Also, I liked the low-profile keyboard. Tall desktop-style keyboards with those fat keys require way too much finger travel and force. I don’t think I would like much more travel than the 1 millimeter (I think that’s the number) on the current Macbooks.
I like the butterfly keyboard. I installed a free app I found that prevented most of the double entry weirdness, and eventually I had the keyboard replaced. It’s still my favorite laptop keyboard though.
Do you still use OF for other stuff? Care to share how/why? Feel free to PM if you think it’ll bore people to tears or something.
If other people ar bored they can scroll past.
Currently I am evaluating my Omnifocus usage. In the past I used OF for everything. Now it’s becoming relegated to recurring tasks and big rocks. What’s changing is I am adapting how I interact with my lists to accommodate the restrictions Obsidian puts on tasks and how they are ogranized.
For me, having all my tasks in one place is turning out to be more important than best/most efficient/easist interactions.
So I am slowly converting all my OF tsks (which are 80% recurring checklists) into Obsidian task lists.
Given how long it’s taking to convert out of DEVONThink I fully expect that this task will taek 12 months or more.
Things that have been fully converted: All AnimalTrakker issues, and projects.
Things that are still in process Lambtracker database updates and coding
Things that haven’t been started
My routine monthly bookeeping sruff
Your comment about overcomplicating workflows reminds me of this clip from Big Bang Theory: The Big Bang Theory - 01x09 - Turn on a lamp through the internet (Sub ITA) - YouTube
This was part of my decision to break from the podcast earlier this year: I’d noticed for a while that it didn’t scratch the itch it used to for me, and when an Upgrade episode took a bracing political turn this summer (we all get to believe what we believe, but the tone was a bowl full of yikes for me), I opted to punch out of Relay FM. There’s still nothing like Mac Power Users, and I do miss it, but some of what I appreciated most in the dynamic hadn’t actually been present for a while. 
This forum, however, continues to be the gold standard. I’m not the most active, but it’s the best.
New one for me: The Studio Display camera is just fine. Yeah, it could be better, but for Zoom calls is more than good enough.
My most extreme contrary opinion: most of us here have experienced a net loss of time and productivity from fiddling around with setups and automations. I’ve come to this belief slowly over the past 2-3 years.
I would guess the first 1-2 years of exposure to “power use” is where the payoff comes. After that, we are mostly fooling ourselves.
I don’t know about the payoff for automating apps but I have the same opinion when it comes to home automation. I don’t have time to be reseting hubs and switches for my lights, etc. It takes less total time and less frustration to walk over to the light switch and flip it. 