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Hello, I'm Evan. I write about tech from my perspective – that of the average tech geek, sometimes with my lawyer glasses on. You can also find me on Twitter and at my real-life job as a lawyer.    MORE ABOUT ME.

If you have a cellular Apple Watch, it looks like you might want to turn that off, too, if in a situation where an interruption would be bad tomorrow afternoon: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202743


If you are in court or an important meeting tomorrow between 2:18 and 2:48 pm Eastern, remember to turn off your phone. Test of Presidential Alert system coming. (Insert your joke or dismay here) http://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2018/10/presidential-alert.html


Use LaunchBar to Toggle Dark Mode in Mojave


NightOwl is a menu bar app to help you quickly toggle Mojave’s dark mode on and off. But I f your menu bar is already too cluttered, or if you prefer keeping your hands on the keyboard, you can set up your own tool to accomplish this instead. To do so, you need a program that can invoke an AppleScript, such as LaunchBar. I’ve set forth the steps for creating this below, but you can jump to the end of this post if you only want to download the Actions and don’t care how they’re made.

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Siri Shortcuts and Things →

Marius Masalar, at his blog:

“Hey Siri, Add a new Writing task”
This example creates a new task in Things within my ‘Writing’ area, assigned to Today, and presents me with a pre-filled quick-entry window where I can add the title and hit save.

I’ve already created almost 50 Siri Shortcuts, but I haven’t done much in the way of integrating Siri Shortcuts with Things. I’ve only set up a couple Siri Shortcuts to filter my tasks with particular tag/list combinations. Follow the link above, though, for some really good examples of Siri Shortcuts set up to create tasks in Things. The post inspired me to set up a few.

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First issue I’ve run into with Mojave with dark mode. I call up a Message compose window all the time to quickly shoot off a message. Can’t see what you type in dark mode, unless you highlight the text.