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This week on AppStories, Federico explains how he’s using the recently-released Notion developer platform before he and John share their wishes for macOS 27.

On AppStories+, John asks Federico about the technical underpinnings and evolution of the Shortcuts Playground project that he published last week.

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• Notion’s Announcement

• Cloudflare Workers

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• Playwright

• Hopper Disassembler

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This week on AppStories, we share our wishes for iOS and iPadOS 27, and for AppStories+ subscribers, we tackle Visual Intelligence and whether there are any use cases that aren’t creepy.

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• Continuity Camera

• Apple Intelligence

• Jump Desktop

• EventKit

• Visual Intelligence and AirPods Cameras

• AirPods Pro

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This week on AppStories, John and Federico kick off the app swap challenge, with each of them giving the other three apps to use. We’ll be checking in on how it’s going each week with a final roundup of the results of the experiment after WWDC.

On AppStories+, we each pick aspirational apps and OS features that we wish we used more but don’t.

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• John’s Picks for Federico

• Dropzone 5

• Cora

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• Bend

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This week on AppStories, John shares his tip for moving files with Taildrop before he and Federico dig into Codex and its unique capabilities.

On AppStories+, Federico and John have both returned to Apple Reminders and discuss why and how they’re using it.

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• Tailscale

• Codex

• An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (Anthropic)

• Apple Frames CLI

• Wispr Flow

• Remodex

• OpenClaw

• Apple Reminders

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This week on AppStories, John and Federico cover Apple’s executive transition, follow up on OpenAI’s super app, and share the apps they’re looking for and give each other suggestions on how to fill their app gaps.

On AppStories+, we round up the tools we’ve built for ourselves that fill gaps, for which we haven’t found apps.

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• Apple’s Executive Leadership Transition Announced

• OpenAI Codex

• HomeKit Automation

• Controller for HomeKit

• CleanShot X

• Workspaces+

• Notion Calendar

• Shiori, by Brian Lovin

• ElevenLabs

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This week on AppStories, we draw from Federico’s experience creating the Apple Frames 4 shortcut and CLI to discuss the multiplier effect that AI agents can have in the hands of someone with deep domain expertise.

On AppStories+, we share our AI agent mishaps and horror stories along with additional details on a John’s ongoing HomeKit makeover project.

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• Mercury Weather – Forecasts, beautifully done. Download now for free.

• Introducing Apple Frames 4: A Revamped Shortcut, Support for Frame Colors, Proportional Scaling, and the Apple Frames CLI for Developers

• Agent mishaps and horror stories, plus a peek at John’s ongoing HomeKit makeover.

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This week, on AppStories, we return to a topic that’s an old favorite: the Everything App in honor of OpenAI’s announcement that they are building a Super App.

On AppStories+, Federico consolidates the tools and services he uses.

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• OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI

• OpenAI Bets Big on Building an Everything App

• Federico’s AI Tool Consolidation

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This week on AppStories, John and Federico revisit the state of text editors on Apple platforms and how they use them.

On AppStories+, John and Federico dig deeper into their writing workflows and the apps they’re using to write.

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• Obsidian

• Obsidian CLI

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This week on AppStories, Federico and John draw from their experiences using AI agents to imagine the sort of agent Apple could build with tight hardware and software integration if it had a LLM to orchestrate the pieces already in place.

On AppStories+, John asks where artificial intelligence falls on the spectrum of historical technology milestones.

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• Vitally – Your Copilot for AI-Powered Customer Success. Get a free pair of AirPods Pro when you book a qualified meeting.

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• OpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future — Peter Steinberger

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• Where does AI rank as a tech innovation?

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This week on AppStories, Federico shares his experiences with foldable Android phones and what Apple might do for its first foldable hardware and its software.

On AppStories+, Federico shares his experience using Samsung DeX.

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• Claude – Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today.

• In a Surprise Move, Apple Announces AirPods Max 2

• Will the iPhone Fold be a phone you open, or an iPad you close?

• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7

• Samsung DeX

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