I’m a huge fan in covering my devices in stickers. Partly to make them unique and mine, showing a bit more of my personality. Plus it makes it much harder for people to pick up your laptop by mistake when leaving a meeting room or whatever.

I usually keep my work laptops a bit more safe for work than my personal ones.

One of the things about AirPods that still annoy me after using them on and off since the early days of the very first version of the regular AirPods, is how unreliable the charging sometimes is.

It was true for the O.G and it is true for both generations of the AirPods Pro.

Sometimes they are really terrible at detecting that they’re in the case. Not sure if it is a problem with the pods or the case or both. Probably related to dirt.

I don’t expect magic, but I’d love for them to detect that there was a problem like this and tell me what to do about it.

There are a few things about Things that drive me a bit nuts. All of what I am talking about is possible to do through shortcuts, but that isn’t something you can integrate into widgets etc.

A big thing I hate is how it isn’t possible to have saved searches in the side bar. For example, I’d love to have the “tomorrow” list always there.

But in general, in a shortcut you can do rather complex queries, sort them in interesting ways etc and show it as a search in the app. Like only show me todos or only show me projects.

It isn’t that well integrated with the rest of the system though.

The same thing kind of goes for the Headings you can add to projects. They’re kind of invisible outside of the project view.

As mentioned many times before on here, I’ve been doing intermittent fasting on and off since 2021, after I hit the end of the useful life of calorie logging.

An interesting detail of doing that is that, when it sticks, and you end up with a working system, where you do it most days but not all, your body isn’t very happy with you when you step outside of that.

For me it is fine to eat terrible as long as I limit eating to 4-6 hours a day or don’t stop fasting for more than two days.

Always good to get to the point where it is too much of a hassle to cheat on yourself.

After a few weeks on this M3 MacBook Pro it is amazing to coming from the last generation Intel MacBook Pro’s how fast, silent and not stupid hot this machine is. Plus how ridiculous the battery life is.

Not uncommon that I can do an entire work day in the home / couch office without connecting a charger.

There are a few things that drive me nuts when adding widgets on my iPhone or iPad.

• Why can’t it remember that I always disable suggestions and smart rotation in my stacks?
• And why the fuck can’t I add an empty stack?
• Speaking of stacks: why can’t it just stay in the same section / app I previously was in when I add them? So annoying when you’re adding multiple widgets from the same app to navigate to it every single time
• The widget sizes: why isn’t there more options? It goes from the 4 app icon size to one twice as wide, then that size is twice as tall, then it is twice as wide. Leaving us without any skinny widgets. Plus many other combinations.

Every time I have to set up a new iPhone, iPad, or Mac there is this one thing I always miss. And that is a way for it to get the basic and just the basic information from one of my other devices that I have close by.

Things like my wifi password and iCloud username and password.

Might be possible on the iPhone setup. But I’d love for all of them to have an option to just get the bare minimum, so I don’t have to sit there and type long and complex phrases from one device to the next.

Can’t be that hard to send it over bluetooth or whatever if they are right next to each other.

My work laptop over the last three years have been the final version of the 16” intel MacBook Pro.

It have been great for what it is, but I also think that it in a lot of ways have been the Apple laptop I’ve had in recent time I’ve liked the least.

Just too big, too hot and felt old and slow not long after I got it.

It have been fine. But at the same time I’ve spent the last year waiting for when I could ask work to get me a new laptop.

A lot of this is probably related to that the M1 hardware started to get out there months after I got it, and that it was already over a year old at that time.

Hopefully the last time I ever have to use a large laptop.

The more I use Focus modes for things I start wishing they were more like tags. Because sometimes I’d like the screen layout from this modes, but the notification settings for work etc.

I could maintain multiple almost identical ones, but then I’d run out.

This also touches on something I’ve written about before that I wish Focus modes was two different things. One for the notification part and one for the more layout and design parts.