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See if you can spot where “we” completely lost touch of reality.

Craft 3.0.5

I woke up to the notification for the message (reformatted and annotated below) in the Craft Docs community Slack this morning and didn’t actually believe it at first.


Get ready to supercharge your Craft experience with fresh shortcuts, streamlined keyboard navigation, and a host of additional tweaks that make everything run smoother than ever. From improved markdown support to clever UI enhancements, this update is all about making your workflow faster, more intuitive, and undeniably delightful. Dive into the full details below:

New shortcuts and keyboard navigation!

  • New Go To Menu: introduced a “Go To” menu in Quick Open (⌘O), enabling users to navigate to sections of the app by typing “Go To” and using arrow keys to select from the list or tapping on the item.

Task View

  • Toggle Task Done/Undone: Cmd ⌘ + Option ⌥ + T
  • Toggle Task Cancelled/Undone: Cmd ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Shift + T
  • Open Add Task Modal: Space
    • Point at a document or day to create the task in that document or day

Calendar View

  • Toggle Task Done/Undone: Cmd ⌘ + Option ⌥ + T
  • Toggle Task Cancelled/Undone: Cmd ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Shift + T
  • Copy Deeplink to Page: Cmd ⌘ + Option ⌥ + L
  • Copy Deeplink to Block: Cmd ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Shift + L1
  • Keyboard Focus: added the ability to navigate between tasks using the arrow keys on the Task and Calendar view.
  • New system shortcut: added support for the system shortcut Ctrl ^ + Enter to open the context menu in browse views for the selected document and in documents for the selected blocks.

Shortcut Help Menu Update (Cmd ⌘ + Option ⌥ + ,)2

  • Refreshed the visual design.
  • Reorganized shortcut groups for better clarity
  • Added missing shortcuts for a more comprehensive overview.

Markdown import

Updated support to adhere to stricter syntax requirements, now following CommonMark with GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions.

This change affects the following actions:

  • Copy-pasting content from other app that supports markdown
  • Drag-and-dropping .md file (import as blocks) into a document
  • In-line formatting with markdown syntax
  • Regular bulk import
  • Notion import
  • HTML paste into Craft

UI Updates and Fixes

  • Aligned the tab icon for the Unsorted folder on iPad to match its appearance on Mac
  • Added tooltips for the New View, New Row, and Search icons in a collection
  • Aligned checkboxes on pinned documents with the page preview icon for better visual rhythm
  • Addressed a glitch in the top toolbar transition on styled pages. When navigating back from a text block while editing, the keyboard no longer reappears unexpectedly.
  • Resolved an issue where the title path in “Shared with Me” documents would jump after the first load
  • Addressed several animation issues
  • Task Widget: adjusted font sizes, spacing for improved aesthetics.
  • Added the missing hover state for the selected table in collection tabs.

Other Improvements and Bugfixes

  • When creating or editing a view for a Collection, the popup now activates automatically, eliminating the need to manually tap or click to start editing
  • Resolved an issue on iPhone where copying text from the title of a Collection item resulted in an empty string
  • Resolved an issue where clicking “Apply” twice was required to close the overlay after adding users, resulting in duplicate invitation emails.
  • Adding new row to collection behavior:
    • Clicking the Add button now creates a new item at the top of the collection list.
    • Clicking the + button at the bottom of the collection adds a new item to the bottom of the list.

New View Creation Improvement:

  • Clicking the New View plus button now creates a new view with the default name “New View” (instead of “Table”).
  • The “Name View” popup is displayed immediately, allowing users to rename the view right away.
  • Resolved multiple bugs in drag reordering within various Collection configuration views on iOS
  • Resolved an issue where long documents were not being fully exported

  1. Also! Copy Deeplink to Selection - ⌘⇧⌥L - actually works! ↩︎

  2. This is just ⌘, on iOS/iPadOS. ↩︎

Things Themes for Arctic

I’ve maintained a fairly prolific habit of “adapting” the color palettes of Cultured Code’s Things 3 (light and dark) for the various software in which I spend most of my time.

I was excited to have another opportunity to do so, recently, for my favorite Lemmy client! So far, I’m still fiddling with the Light version, but the Dark version is available below!

Dark

Things Dark Arctic Theme Preview

(The theme files below should be openable directly in Arctic, cross-platform.)

Source

  • GitHub Gist

    { “accent”: { “errorColor”: “#FF3370”, “accentColor”: “#67ACFF”, “successColor”: “#4CBF60”, “warningColor”: “#FFD400” }, “id”: “F374ECA7-27A8-43F3-AA9C-E2929E456E9C”, “name”: “Things Dark”, “background”: { “groupedBackgroundColor”: “#1D2229”, “foregroundColor”: “#1D2229”, “primaryContainerColor”: “#252A31”, “backgroundColor”: “#171C22”, “secondaryContainerColor”: “#31596F4D”, “groupedForegroundColor”: “#2E333A” }, “text”: { “tertiaryLabel”: “#87919F”, “secondaryLabel”: “#787F89”, “linkLabel”: “#67ACFF”, “primaryLabel”: “#FFFFFF”, “placeholderLabel”: “#828C9BE2” }, “actions”: { “favoriteColor”: “#FFD400CA”, “markReadColor”: “#186289”, “collapseColor”: “#67ACFF96”, “editColor”: “#5CA5FF”, “saveColor”: “#4CBF60”, “crosspostColor”: “#4C4060”, “downvoteColor”: “#D1C58B”, “shareColor”: “#4DB1A7”, “replyColor”: “#5CA5FF”, “blockColor”: “#FC375E”, “upvoteColor”: “#1BADF8”, “subscribeColor”: “#4CBF69C9” } }

Previews

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Auto-generated description: A tablet screen displays a Reddit app interface with posts and navigation options visible, including feeds like Home, Local, All, and Comments.

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Light

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Source

{
  "name": "Things Light",
  "id": "AFA2343E-D9A2-4AE2-B439-BB18789761DF",
  "actions": {
    "favoriteColor": "#FFD600EC",
    "shareColor": "#FFD600EC",
    "upvoteColor": "#0665B5CA",
    "subscribeColor": "#3AA89BE4",
    "editColor": "#FB4475E2",
    "blockColor": "#FB444FE7",
    "downvoteColor": "#CCBF7DE5",
    "markReadColor": "#BDE2D3E7",
    "collapseColor": "#94979897",
    "saveColor": "#BF54B1DD",
    "replyColor": "#4CBF62E9",
    "crosspostColor": "#3FBFB6E0"
  },
  "accent": {
    "errorColor": "#FF3370",
    "warningColor": "#FFD400",
    "successColor": "#4CBF60",
    "accentColor": "#1BAFF6F5"
  },
  "text": {
    "primaryLabel": "#15181A",
    "secondaryLabel": "#9399A3FA",
    "placeholderLabel": "#979DA5D7",
    "linkLabel": "#0069CD",
    "tertiaryLabel": "#C1C4C7DC"
  },
  "background": {
    "groupedBackgroundColor": "#F3F6F7",
    "groupedForegroundColor": "#FFFFFF",
    "secondaryContainerColor": "#E1E4E9B1",
    "foregroundColor": "#FFFFFF",
    "backgroundColor": "#F3F6F7",
    "primaryContainerColor": "#EBEDF0CB"
  }
}

Previews

Audio Trimmer App Store Review

Audio Trimmer - Trim Audio

Long-Awaited, Elegantly-Executed

Somehow, this 1.4 MB, virtually inconfigurable, single-use application manages to be one of the most powerful audio manipulation tools on iOS. Those who remember maintaining a GarageBand install just because they occasionally needed to trim audio files will celebrate. One of very few apps I’ve come across that I absolutely wouldn’t change at all but would pay much more for.

Extraordinarily accurate (especially compared to any of its “competition”) and astonishingly robust.

Shareshot App Store Review

Shareshot Icon

THE solution for those who actually frame

As his co-editor notes in MacStories' review of Version 1.0, Federico Viticci’s Apple Frames Shortcut does indeed overlap in functionality with Shareshot, technically, but - more importantly, from my perspective - the two stand together high above any other mockup creation solution (for any platform).

At first, I was disappointed when I tried to use Shareshot’s initial release version. Boy, this could sure use some keyboard shortcuts, I thought, along with there’s no way this system of ‘choosing’ (not choosing) frame sizes isn’t irritating every single user of this app. I assumed - as I do with the vast majority of new software I try these days - that Shareshot’s creators must not actually be using the app, that it wasn’t actually supposed to be used, really, but was published, instead, for some economically-motivated reason I’d never understand.

Very shortly after, however, the most extraordinarily encouraging thing(s) happened: in the span of just a single season, all of the issues/“missing” features I was sure anyone using the app extensively would immediately encounter were addressed with solid, well-documented updates.(Tee ell dee are: it is very obvious that Marc and Mark use the app themselves, are very competent, and value customer feedback.)

As I write this using Version 1.2.1 at the tail end of 2024, Shareshot is the perfect, built-for-me mockup application I have always dreamed of, assuming I’d never get anything close.

Cross-Platform Time Manipulation

A smartphone screen displays a detailed report of average daily screen time, totaling 24 hours and 10 minutes, divided into categories like productivity, finance, and creativity, with specific app usage durations listed below.
features like Screen Time will never help you achieve whatever vague conception of reduced usage you may have. If you haven't yet quantified the figures you'll find within it in mental estimates, you aren't really concerned at all and if you have, Screen Time will only confirm them. Using reminder notifications to optimize your appflow makes no attempt at all to actually escape the mentality of the behavior you seek to lessen from yourself. Another app is still another app; a notification reminding you to stop using an app does nothing but add still more stimuli. If you want to stop using the phone so much, *stop* using the fucking phone. If you are truly concerned about how your handset companion has changed your life, turn it off for a week/month/quarter – however long you possibly can. By that, I mean no more or less than what you can manage without getting fired/dumped/expelled/etc. If you have truly reached this point, anything less is probably worth it. There is simply no other way to get a clear picture of how it's changed you.

Hopefully the all-I-can-do-is-milestone-minutea-of-my-fucking-life phase will be over soon so that I can get back to (genuinely wise??) thoughts like this.

Please note: as of this time, we cannot confirm with reasonable certainty that Time Manipulation will be releasing with the iOS 18.3 public build.

Multi-Track (ish?) Editing in Voice Memos

With Voice Memos, two tracks can be layered on top of one another. There's also an option to separate layers and edit layer mixes.

ios 18 2 layered voice memos

Two-track projects can be imported directly into Logic Pro on the iPhone 16 Pro and ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ Max.

Hypothes.is

Why/how in God’s name of the fuck would it be limited to (effectively) a single device??

Voice Memos does not need to be a DAW.

Backup Things' Actual Database from iOS/iPadOS

This fucking code

491348

is one of those things I somehow always manage to forget before I ever need it, again, and - naturally - is somehow not fucking documented anywhere but this support page, that I’ve ever been able to find.

  1. Open Things 3.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Tap GeneralDiagnosticsEnter Code.
  4. Enter the code `491348`
  5. Tap Send Things Database.

The file you’re getting is called `Things Database.aar`. We recommend that you save the file into iCloud Drive, or, if you own a Mac, we suggest you select to AirDrop it to your Mac as it is the most secure way of transmitting the data.

If you do not own a Mac, you can only unpack the `.aar` file on your iPhone or iPad. Locate it where you saved it in iCloud Drive and tap it once. That will produce `Things Database.thingsdatabase` which contains the actual database file.

	<p class="fineprint">If you are on iOS 13 or older, the file you’re getting is called Things.sqlite3 and it can be viewed in a separate app as explained below.</p>