Mac Power Users 177: Workflows with Gabe Weatherhead

David and Katie talk with Gabe Weatherhead (a.k.a. MacDrifter) about being a Mac geek in a PC office, DEVONThink, and his automation workflows.

Thanks to MPU listener Hay Oborn for assistance with the shownotes this week!

David and Katie talk with Gabe Weatherhead (a.k.a. MacDrifter) about being a Mac geek in a PC office, DEVONThink, and his automation workflows.

Thanks to MPU listener Hay Oborn for assistance with the shownotes this week!

This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:

SmileTyping more with less effort using TextExpander on OS X and iOS makes you a Mac Power User.

The Omni GroupWe're passionate about productivity for Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Squarespace Everything you need to create an amazing website.

Transporter
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Links and Show Notes

Links for this episode:

Macdrifter
macdrifter (macdrifter) on Twitter
Technical Difficulties - Home
Dropbox
Home - TextDrop - Online text editor for Dropbox
The fastest way to edit text files in your Dropbox using a web browser.It's designed for situations where you don't have Dropbox installed, like when you're at work.

Transporter
Synology - Network Attached Storage (NAS)
OmniFocus - The Omni Group
Spootnik
Access your tasks via OmniFocus's native apps, email, web browser or 37signals' Basecamp.

Basecamp is everyone’s favorite project management app.
Microsoft Office
iOS: Using Reminders
DEVONthink
DEVONthink is smart. It not only searches all your documents almost instantaneously, it also finds connections between them, extracts the most relevant topic words, or files documents automatically.

Scrivener Writing Software
Bare Bones Software | Yojimbo
Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible

Evernote
Evernote Web Clipper
save anything you see online—including text, links and images—into your Evernote account with a single click.

DEVONthink Pro Office
DEVONthink Pro Office is your Mac paperless office. It stores all your documents, helps you keep them organized, and presents you with what you need to get the job done.

Fujitsu ScanSnap Scanners
Optical character recognition - Wikipedia
TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X
TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.

Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 10
BEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. An intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit’s best-of-class features, including grep pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files, project definition tools, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, code folding, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Mac OS X Unix scripting support, text and code completion, and of course a complete set of robust HTML markup tools.

BrettTerpstra.com
Byword
Simple and efficient text editing for Mac, iPhone and iPad.

MailMate
MailMate is an IMAP email client featuring extensive keyboard control, Markdown supported email composition, advanced search conditions and drill-down search links, equally advanced smart mailboxes, automatic signature handling, cryptographic encryption/signing (OpenPGP and S/MIME), tagging, multiple notification methods, alternative message viewer layouts including a widescreen layout, and much more.

FastMail: Fast, reliable email
Noodlesoft | Hazel
Hazel watches whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create. It features a rule interface similar to that of Apple Mail so you should feel right at home

PDFpen
The all-purpose Mac PDF editor! Add signatures, text, and images. Make changes and correct typos. OCR scanned docs. Fill out forms. New in version 6: Microsoft® Word export!

Keyboard Maestro
Work Faster with Macros for Mac OS X

Create Searchable Keywords : Fujitsu
Python Programming Language – Official Website
PDFpen OCR Folder Action Script — MacSparky
Automatic Document Redaction with PDFpen — KatieFloyd.me
Automatically OCR Documents with Hazel and PDFpen — KatieFloyd.me
Apple - Aperture - Pro performance with iPhoto simplicity.
Roku Streaming Player
Apple - Apple TV
Plex - Plex Media Server: Your Media on all of Your Devices - Plex.tv
Plex - Streaming Software for your Personal Media
Wireless Speakers | The Wireless HiFi System from Sonos
Technical Difficulties - 056 - Sonos Showdown
Downcast
Audible.com