Let’s say you’re just going to reset an old Mac and re-install the OS, or setting up a new one. And you have at least 5 other logged in functioning Apple Devices close by.

Why can’t I use them to authenticate and transfer the wifi code by scanning some QR code or whatever?

I get that it has some security implications, and I’m fine with confirming it in a safe way. But I just want to not manually type my long as fuck Apple ID password multiple times. Or my wifi code.

Let’s say you’re look at some App Store listing on your Mac or or whatever.

Why can’t I click “Install this on my iPhone 16 Pro, my iPad mini and my other Mac”?

My sleep is always weird, never long enough, and usually kind of weird. I guess my ADHD plays a big role in it.

The interesting thing about it is that even when I don’t sleep a lot most of the time, let’s say around 6h. My restorative sleep is typically where it should be. As in minutes and not percentage.

And when I sleep more I usually either have similar amounts of restorative sleep or way less.

I often find myself in this spot where I think both sides of arguments have some valid points and some that I find ridiculous.

This is kind of my problem with everything we end up in this us versus them rhetoric.

Funny thing.

I’ve used Kindle since like 2010, and had a Kindle on and off since 2011.

And still to this day all the people that comment on me having a Kindle that isn’t a typical geek give me a look and ask what I’m reading, before the conversation switch to them using theirs for smut or something really filthy shit.

I’m just bringing up some of my usual complaints I hope Apple will fix soon.

Have a timeout for when to clear the state of the “Add action” UI (iOS/iPadOS)

Let’s say I have navigated to the Add actions UI, searched for Things, selected the app Things and first add a Find Items action.

Persist that state longer than until I added that action.

Because it is very likely that I want to add more actions from the same app. I’d prefer if it was persisted until I navigate out of the Things area of add actions or that I exit editing the Shortcut.

Re-usable sets of actions aka Functions

I want to be able to declare a function that takes these inputs and optionally return these values.

Fine you can do it with calling other Shortcuts. But it often takes less blocks to just duplicate shit than to deal with reading data from inputs and outputting things in the end

Better type support

All the actions declare their types and stuff and it is kind of integrated. Some places. It should just work everywhere. Like when I have a dictionary I should be able to set the “type” column to a Things Item type

Defer / Schedule actions

We should be able to say “Run this shortcut in 10minutes” or “Run this at 10:15 today”

Shortcut widgets should not be based on folders

The widgets should not be based on folders, but rather be able to select them manually

Names should not be unique

I should be able to have multiple shortcuts called “Fuck this shit” in different folders.

Run on different devices

I should be able to pick where something should run. Like “Always run this shortcut where I triggered it” (like it is now) or “Always run this on my iPhone” or “Always run this on my iPhone or iPad Pro”.

I bitch about this every year

Let me pick the defaults

I always turn off suggestions and usually smart rotate. Let me just have that as a default.

More sizes

So we have the small 2x2, the medium 4x2 and the large 4x4 on iPhone; plus an extra large 8x4 on iPad.

• I’d like a 1x1 for when you’re just using it as a button
• Also 4x6 to fill the entire iPhone screen.
• Plus various skinny widgets; both with width of 2 and 3

Adding stacks

• When I add a new stack, don’t pre-fill it with junk, just let me pick by myself.
• Let me turn a single widget into a stack when I long press

Showing widgets with data from other devices

We can do this with iPhone widgets on macOS. Let me do the same across all devices.

NotePlan have slowly become my go to daily planning tool.

It isn’t perfect, but works in a weird way.

I use all of the different dated sections in it. But the main thing for me is the daily one.

A big part of being able to hold my ADHD life together is a combination of checklists and time blocking. So everything is basically blocked off in a structure I move and adjust as the day goes on.

It is to a huge extent driven my templates etc to make it easy to set up. I’ll typically do the main setup job the weekend before for the entire week, add all the large stuff the night before, and do more detailed plans for every 3 hours.

At the moment the time here is 08:49, so I’ll plan until noon when I’m done with this blog.

The structure for me is typically a root task that is the time block, and then either sub-tasks or checklists (usually a combination of both) under it. With some emoji to show me the category. And I love using that “move completed to the bottom” feature to keep things neat.

For me time blocking is great for having realistic plans and keeping focus.

The way my mind works everything become this slow progress where I try to move all the stuff I care about or have decided to work on a forward each week.

Instead of my old ways on hyper focusing on one thing and forgetting everything else for a while and jumping between fires.

It is much better for me in most ways.

But I think it is really important to have a way to show that slow progress in order to see it clearly and not getting into that “I don’t get shit done” mindset when you don’t have any big progress ever.