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Technistry
By Scott Schulman
4.5
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How many episodes does Technistry have?
The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.
Technistry episodes:
December 20, 2019Technistry Finale After nearly two years, we're hanging up the podcast equipment. A huge thanks to everyone for listening! Merry Christmas!
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...more October 22, 20192.17: The All Shortcuts Show! Chris: Delayed Text Shortcut- Airtable
- Stores delayed text messages in an Airtable database and then automatically sends them out each day
Scott: Nighttime Shortcut- Shuffles a nighttime playlist for Scott's kids and opens their nightlight app
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...more October 08, 20192.16: More About That in a Couple of Weeks Scott: JotformWhat is it? Online form builder
Helpful features:
- Free for basic use
- They have a non-profit pricing (50% off)
- Pre-built templates and easy-to-make custom templates
- Easy to duplicate and repurpose forms
- Connects to PayPal for accepting payments
How Scott uses it:
- Summer staff applications, references, and contracts
- Registrations for camp
- Donations (including recurring donations)
Chris: Airtable (referral invite link)What it is? Database that can look and act like a spreadsheet
You can organize data including:
- dropdown menus
- files with previews
- Iinks to other records
- long text, emails, phone numbers
You can view your data in several ways:
- Calendar
- Kaban board (like Trello)
- List
- Gallary
Other features:
- Or filter and create your own view
- Create and share a form to capture new data
- Deep integrations with over 1000 websites and apps like: MailChimp, Evernote, Dropbox, Slack, Gmail, social media, Asana, Trello, Google drive, etc.
- Great mobile and desktop apps
How Chris uses Airtable:
- Great API with documentation
- Church database: individual tab linked to families and groups tabs (including ages for kids, contact info for families, etc.)
- Delayed texts database
- Bible Reading Schedule
- Soccer Team Roster
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...more September 24, 20192.15: I'm Lonely, But I'm Okay Scott: Whiteboards- Photo of Scott’s Whiteboard
Chris: Time TrackingReasons to track time:
- Shows you where you’re spending your time (and proportion of time)
- Helps you say “no” to things
- Helps you get a better idea of how much time things take you
Tips for time tracking:
- Helps you realize why you feel overwhelmed or if you need to give yourself a kick
- Start with 3–5 broad tracking areas: sermon prep, people time, prayer, admin work, errands
- It’s about the general trends, not the 3-second changes
Why I chose Toggl?
- Automate as much as possible
- It’s free for everything I need
- It’s on every platform (including browser plug-ins for Chrome)
- If necessary, you can get the iOS app Timery (easier to use than Toggl’s iOS app)
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...more September 10, 20192.14: I Just Don't Really Have Any Friends Chris: Bluetooth FM TransmitterSet up
- My particular one is cheap, just $18 (link here)
- Plug it into your cigarette lighter
- It connects to your FM radio (find a blank radio station and sync the transmitter to it)
- Any audio that plays over your phone can now play over your car speakers
Advantages
- You can listen to music, podcasts, etc. without needing earphones (which may be illegal where you live anyhow)
- You can charge your phone while listening
- You can answer phone calls and use the buttons to navigate audio
Scott: Group Texts and Facebook MessengerTips:
- You can mute group conversations (use liberally)
- And don’t be afraid to eliminate notifications altogether
- Groups are helpful for announcements
- For smaller churches, group messaging can be a great way to share prayer requests or encourage other Christians
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...more August 27, 20192.13: Then I Find a Happy Medium Scott: Multiple CalendarsExample Calendars:
- Church
- Family (anything entire family does together)
- Personal
- Spouse
- Work
- Camps
- Meetings
Shared Calendars (Technistry, Master Camp Schedule, etc.)
Helpful Tips:- Use color-coding to visually separate events on your calendar
- Include margin in your daily schedule
- Share everything with your spouse (but still communicate)
- View on your phone/watch/computer, etc.
Chris: Fantastical App for Mac and iOSAdvantage of Fantastical:
- Keyboard shortcuts for quick entry on Mac (menu bar program)
- Good Apple Watch App
- Has native access to TextExpander Snippets
- Set groups of calendars to view
- Natural text entry for events on Mac and iOS (for example: “Meet with Scott at Starbucks thu 1:30 pm 90m alert 30 /per” adds a calendar item on my “Personal” calendar for next Thursday from 1:30–3:00pm with the title “Meet with Scott” and the location as “Starbucks” with an alert 30 minutes before the event.)
Automators Podcast Episode 1 tips:
- Mass calendar language parsing with Mac app (Keyboard Maestro) OR…
- Shortcuts on iOS 13 (scroll down below the Keyboard Maestro explanation until you see the red calendar icon right above “Adding event with Apple script” and you’ll find a link to a Shortcut called “Clipboard Events to Fantastical”)
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...more August 13, 20192.12: We're a Real Podcast Now! Chris: Settings to adjust for iOSSignificant locations:
- Keeps track of specific locations you frequent that may help maps, calendar, photos, and more (and Apple can’t read it)
- Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations
- At the bottom you can clear your significant locations
- At the top you can turn off significant locations
Speech Enhancement
- Lets your phone read text on your screen.
- General > Accessibility > Speech
- Select any text and press the “Speak Text” button OR…
- Turn on “Speak screen” if you want to swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen to hear the content of the screen
- Click “Voices” to download a better quality voice (Alex is the best)
Pronouncitations
- You can tell Siri how to pronounce words (Say, “Hey Siri, Learn to pronounce ‘Sample Name’”)
- Or you can go into the speech settings above (General > Accessibility > Speech), scroll down to Pronunciations, and add phrases individually
Scott: Screen timeYou have several options:
- Downtime
- App Limits
- Communication Limits
- Always Allowed
- Content and Priavcy Restrictions
It may be helpful to…
- Give your password to someone else
- Set time limits for apps or groups of apps
- Block or allow some app/sites all the time
- Use downtime (which sets a time you can’t use your device)
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...more July 30, 20192.11: Podcasts Are Like Kids Scott: Podcasts Recommendations- Grace Fellowship Church: Pastor Brad Bigney, author of Gospel Treason
- Palmetto Baptist Church: Pastors Jason Ormiston and Bill Eismann
- Sermons from Faithpoint Longmont: Pastors Torrey Jaspers, Kip Dolan, and Jared Gunderson (find the URL link on their website for their podcast feed)
- Creating Disney Magic: Podcast on leadership from a guy who worked at Disney
Chris: Google Search Advanced SearchExamples:
- Exclude items with a minus sign (e.g., - car)
- Exact words in an exact order (e.g., “fourscore and seven years”)
- Numbers in a range (e.g., $50…100)
- Use AND or OR to determine which sections of your search must be part of the resulting search
- Search a site with Google (e.g., site:espn.com Lebron James)
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...more July 16, 20192.10: That May Not Be Your Gift Chris — Markdown- Markdown is a plain-text writing language.
- History: John Gruber of Daring Fireball created it in 2004
- Markdown to Presentation: Deckset
- Syntax for Markdown
- Example shortcut for markdown to rich text (image here, Note: I’m running the iOS beta so it may look a bit different to you).
- Consider also making a shortcut to take rich text to markdown for archiving purposes.
Scott — Using Facebook PagesFacebook pages are free, easy to set up, and ubiquitous.
Things to keep in mind:
- Make it look clean.
- Check grammar and spelling.
- Use apps to make announcement photos (rather than just text).
- Respond immediately if someone messages your Facebook pages.
Examples:
- Pioneer Baptist Church
- Camp Grace
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...more July 02, 20192:9: Oh, it's a dictionary! Chris: ESV Shortcut (iOS)
- You need the free Shortcuts App.
- You need an API key from ESV.org (which you can get for free here.
- Save your ESV API in a file called ESVapi.txt inside /Shortcuts/Logins/ in your iCloud Drive (you’ll need to create the “Logins” folder manually).
- ESV Advanced Shortcut: select between a variety of reading and formatting options and get the text copied to your system clipboard.
- ESV Simple Shortcut: add your passage and get a non-versed, blocked text copied to your system clipboard.
- You can access either of these shorcuts from the iOS sharesheet or you can create a Drafts action/keyboard shortcut that runs the shortcut and auto-pastes it back into Drafts
Scott: Webster1828 (iOS)
- Download app here
- A dictionary to help you understand KJV English or older hymns
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FAQs about Technistry:
How many episodes does Technistry have?
The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.