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This week Fraser and Federico welcome special guest Merlin Mann to discuss opportunities for improvements that may - or may not - arrive in iOS 11.

Merlin Mann

iOS is an increasingly mature operating system but nothing is perfect and there are so many things - large and small - that we want to see tweaked and improved in iOS. This wide-ranging discussion covers some of our major pain points and wishes for the future.

This week Fraser and Federico look at two options for outlining on iOS.

Outlining is a powerful software technique that goes far beyond the bullet list in a word processor. Outliners let you create structured documents and - crucially - expand, collapse and restructure them at will.

If you haven't used an outliner before, we look at two options: one that gives you a stripped-down Markdown-style editing experience and one that lets you do, well, everything in one place.

This week Fraser and Federico look at another aspect of personal security on iOS: password managers.

Many people have looked at password managers and decided they are too complex, too annoying or just too geeky for daily use. This episode is here to convince you or your friends and family of all the great and important reasons why you should be using a password manager

This week, inspired by true events, Fraser and Federico look at the user-facing security technologies available in iOS.

iOS is a very secure operating system but there are settings and controls that you might set in various ways to enhance or reduce your security. This episode dives deep into the settings available to users to protect themselves.

This week Fraser and Federico dig into the changes in Apple's recent iWork 3.1 update and explore Apple Classroom 2.0.

iWork is a great suite of apps that comes for free with iOS devices. There's a lot of power in there and Apple has recently expanded these capabilities with iWork 3.1. This show discusses some of the additions and looks at Apple Classroom 2.0, the iPad management tool that is now open for use by anyone with any device, not just schools.

Finally, we run the rule over Apple's new lower-cost iPad 5th Generation.

This week Fraser and Federico take their Apple Pencils in hand and share some notes on taking notes with the iPad Pro.

Many people dream of the fusion of paper and digital and, for many years, we tried to make the iPad work for this. Rubbery styli, wide parallax error and low-resolution digitizers were the enemy of anything particularly good happening, despite the best efforts of many stylus makers and app developers.

With the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil, however, everything has changed. The Apple Pencil is really the only stylus worth mentioning in the context of iPad note taking. Nothing else comes close.

This week Fraser and Federico tackle a core part of iOS: the Share Sheet.

The Share Sheet is a fundamental tool for getting work done on iOS but how does it work? How does iOS decide what to put in there? And what is the deal with those apps that appear twice? All is explained in this episode.

In this episode, Fraser and Federico update the Workflow series for the major new feature that debuted in Workflow 1.7 - Magic Variables.

Magic Variables solve a major problem that we identified in episode 23. Namely, the need to constantly "get details of" and then store the result in a variable over and over until you have all the properties you need.

Magic Variables reduce this to one button in a Workflow now. You're going to want to use these!

This week Fraser and Federico change gears and focus on Read Later services.

On iOS, three of the big services for "reading later" are Safari Reading List, Pocket and Instapaper. In this show, we discuss the features that are desirable for these kinds of services and review each of the big three, highlighting their best side.

This week Fraser and Federico close out the Workflow programming series with some of the more advanced techniques in Workflow programming.

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