I’ve wondered this for years at this point: why the fuck can’t I re-order those damn things?! Not that important, but would make things a lot easier for me.

A few apps recently have started doing these movie like intro thingies on first run. Like Arc and Orion.

Big graphical intro with sound and all kinds of bullshit.

This crap got to stop. Or at least make it easy to skip.

Some apps, like Day One to mention the most recent one I’ve noticed, are doing something weird with their ID’s or other references in Shortcuts. Because I can never get them to work across different devices reliably.

It works perfect on whatever device I edited it last, all the others usually loose track of parts of the settings. For Day One it is typically the Journal that falls back to the default one.

When I’m at work I typically find myself with a multiple monitor setup. Currently with multiple regular shaped ones, but typically during the last few years ultra wide ones. And at home I’m either laptop screen only or with a 4k 27” screen.

When I’m on the laptop screen I typically find myself using Stage Manager and full size windows most of the time. And when I use an ultra wide screen I typically don’t use stage manager but treat it in a similar way, just more like as if it was three laptop screens in one.

But when I have a large screen, like the one I have at home, I typically find myself using differently sized windows just floating around using all the tools in macOS. Spaces, hiding, minimizing etc.

If there is one category of bugs that drive me nuts beyond anything else, it got to be buggy or unreliable notification badges.

Some of my favorites are:

• When you can’t figure out how to clear all or one of them
• When they clear when you just open the app
  • Even worse: that state is reset the next time a notification happens and you get the old number + 1
• When you have to restart the app for it to update properly, sometimes
• When in an messaging app they count number of unread “entries” not the number of “conversations” that has something unread.
  • If I send you 5 messages it would increase the count by 5

This isn’t something that happens a lot to me. Less than 5 times over the two years I’ve been medicated.

The last couple of times it has however it reminds me how large of an effect meds have on me. Because of the kind of meds I’m on and the slow process of getting to an effective dose I didn’t have a huge “wow” moment.

But when I don’t take them for a day it feels terrible, leaving me in this super unfocused anxious stressed state.

Can’t believe I used to live like this.

There are Three features of OmniFocus that I often find myself missing in Things

1. Having perspectives that just hide everything else in the app.
2. Being able to do that kind of changes with Focus Filters with Focus Modes
3. The Forecast View

The first one is kind of solvable with filtering a view by tags sometimes combined with Shortcuts to only show what I want to see, but this isn’t a real solution though, because it doesn’t affect the side menu.

The second one is the same kind of idea, hiding parts of your database based on Focus Modes. Like there are large parts of my database that I only want to see sometimes, like shopping lists or work tasks etc.

The third should have been implemented in Things a really long time ago. Just give me a fucking calendar view.

On earlier versions of iOS, iPadOS, etc there used to be this annoying difference in how it worked if you launched a shortcut from a widget versus the “Add to Home Screen” and similar options, where the former just launched it, while the rest would end up opening the shortcuts app and all of that.

Now it seems like all of them works the same way.

Weird how the changes in control center is the changes I like the most about iOS 18. Awesome for having a shortcuts launchpad.