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Quarterly systems check on productivity rituals, from paper planners and sticker-driven journaling to gym routines and boundary-setting. Deep dive into using AI for automating repetitive workflows, sponsorships, and stress relief. Announcements about a live show in Toronto and community connection updates and travel plans.

Brad is simultaneously thinning out his ink shelf while purchasing more ink. Somebody please make it make sense! While you are at it, help us make sense of the Kokuyo Design Awards. This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PENADDICT. Pen Chalet: Check out this week's special offer, and to get your code for 10% off. Links and Show Notes: Support The Pen Addict with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback Pelikan Edelstein Pyrite Ink Review — The Pen Addict Colorverse 2025 Top 3 Colorvent Special Edition 65ml Fountain Pen Ink – Pen Chalet Brad's Ink Swatches – Instagram Colorverse 2025 Top 3 Colorvent Ink and Fountain Pen Kit – Pen Chalet The Stationer Shop Announcement – Instagram Tessa Getting The Keys – Instagram Happy Birthday Uniball Vision – Instagram Traveler's Company Brass Fountain Pen - Fine | JetPens N2 Al & Steel– Namisu Pilot E95 Fountain Pens – Pen Chalet Pilot Prera Standard Body Fountain Pens | JetPens Pilot Petit1 Fountain Pen Review — The Pen Addict Modern Fuel Luxury Fountain Pens - Elegant Writing Instruments – Alibaba

Kathy Campbell, Relay FM community manager and Conduit host, talks productivity and analog habits. Jeff Carlson, writer and photographer, covers email, mobile plans, and noise-canceling headphones. They compare inbox strategies, cellphone plan tradeoffs, ANC experiences, and why low-tech routines like paper planning and pour-over coffee persist.

Corporate lawyer David Roth joins to talk about the challenges of staying focused in a fast-paced profession where small mistakes can cost millions of dollars. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code FOCUSED. Guest Starring: David Roth Links and Show Notes: Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content. Video for this episode David Roth | Attorney & Technologist Remember The Milk Getting Things Done® OmniFocus Things | Cultured Code NotePlan Obsidian Mac Power Users #756: Exploring NotePlan with David Roth Claude Cowork | Anthropic Robot Assistant Field Guide | MacSparky Field Guides Enchiridion of Epictetus | Wikipedia Readwise Cleft Notes Leatherman ARC Multi-tool MacBook Neo | Apple MacBook Pro | Apple Basecamp Orange - iPhone 16 Pro | Ridge Wallet for MagSafe - Basecamp Orange | RIdge Power Bank - 10k mAh - Basecamp Orange | Ridge MV88 USB-C | Shure Sponsor Games Apple in China by Patrick McGee Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni The Score by C. Thi Nguyen

The Mac Pro is dead, iOS 18 security updates are now available for all, and Siri's upcoming revamp comes into focus. After all that's done, both hosts share their Apple origin stories. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: DeleteMe: Get 20% off your plan when you use this link and code UPGRADE20. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code UPGRADE. Steamclock: We make great apps. Design and development, from demos to details. Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Use code upgrade50off Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Liftoff - Relay Eric Berger - Ars Technica Loren Grush | Bloomberg ‘Hello, World’ – Six Colors NASA Shares Photos Shot on iPhone 17 Pro Max During Artemis II Mission to the Moon - MacRumors Apollo 8 - Wikipedia Apple at 50: Some great Apple history books – Six Colors iCon - Wikipedia The Second Coming of Steve Jobs - Wikipedia Apple releases iOS 18 security updates for iOS 26 holdouts – Six Colors About Lockdown Mode – Apple Support About Background Security Improvements for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS - Apple Support The Eclectic Light Company – Macs & painting Apple Fitness chief Jay Blahnik retiring in July after 13-year tenure - 9to5Mac Mac Studio delivery '4-5 months' out for top RAM after Apple dropped 512GB option - 9to5Mac A Good Mac Studio is Hard to Find - 512 Pixels Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac Apple discontinues the Mac Pro – Six Colors ATP 685: The Ability to Be Hotter — Accidental Tech Podcast Connected #597: S-Tier: Jason Snell - Relay iOS 27 Features: Apple AI Reboot With Siri App, New Interface, ‘Ask Siri’ Button - Bloomberg Apple Seeds First iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 Betas to Developers - MacRumors Wish List: Siri, Spotlight, and a unified search experience – Six Colors Apple Tests Siri Feature That Handles Multiple Commands at Once - Bloomberg Apple Plans to Open Up Siri to Rival AI Assistants Beyond ChatGPT in iOS 27 - Bloomberg Fifty Years of Apple, Twenty Years for Me – The Enthusiast iPhone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 - Full Presentation, 80 mins - YouTube

Brett Terpstra and Christopher Gamblée-Wallendjack introduce Bear & Glass, their human-focused Mac automation consultancy. Brett shares his ultimate keyboard-driven workflow, previews Marked 3 and BlogBook. Then the gang geeks out on keyboard utilities. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Ecamm: Powerful live streaming platform for Mac. 1Password: Never forget a password again. Guest Starring: Christopher Gamblée-Wallendjack and Brett Terpstra Links and Show Notes: Credits The Mac Power Users Stephen Robles David Sparks The Editor Jim Metzendorf The Fixer Kerry Provanzano More Power Users: Ad-free episodes with regular bonus segments Submit Feedback MPU 843 on YouTube Bear & Glass - Human-Focused Apple Automation & Consulting BrettTerpstra.com Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI for Essay Writing Task — MIT Media Lab My ultimate keyboard-driven Mac utility list - BrettTerpstra Superkey Ultimate Hacking Keyboard doing - BrettTerpstra Karabiner-Elements Marked - Markdown Preview and Converter HandBrake Plexamp | Plex GitHub - mikker/LeaderKey Paletro — Command Palette in any applications Keyboard Maestro BetterTouchTool Drafts | Where Text Starts TaskPaper – Plain text to-do lists for Mac Permute - Media Converter for macOS Bloom - Finder, but Refined Forklift 4 BlogBook — WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost CineNerdle GitHub - ecwilsonaz/mediasage: Unofficial AI-powered Plex playlist generator with library awareness. Every track it suggests, you actually own. · GitHub Welcome to Bunch - Bunch.app Scripting Jekyll image "uploads" - BrettTerpstra Aptonic - Dropzone 5 Retrobatch 2 | Batch Image Processor Web Excursions for March 31st, 2026 - BrettTerpstra.com LaunchControl: The launchd GUI Overtired – Tech, Mental Health, and Taylor Swift Reflections on Macworld - 512 Pixels Home Page - Podfeet Podcasts FFmpeg MailMate Stream Deck | Elgato nvUltra - Searchable, portable, MultiMarkdown notes Task Management Software Built For Pros - OmniFocus - The Omni Group Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking Setapp | Powerful apps for Mac & iOS Noodlesoft – Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software YUZU Custom Keycaps Hyperkey LaunchBar 6 Alfred - Productivity App for macOS Cotypist – AI Autocomplete for Mac | Type Faster, Write Better

Stephen has received the best follow-up in podcast history, Myke realizes something about his feelings for the Mac Pro, and Federico is charging his iPhone more than he expected. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. New users get $100 in Sentry credits with code connected26. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code CONNECTED. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback Connected #432: Spaghetti Features - Relay The Ice Mac I Tried a REAL Exosuit and It Actually Works – Austin Evans – YouTube eCFR :: 49 CFR 173.217 -- Carbon dioxide, solid (dry ice). Backup Client Release Notes (Mac) – Backblaze Little Finder Guy Stars in Nine New Apple TikTok and YouTube Videos - MacRumors Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac Mac Pro - Wikipedia Mac Power Users #485: WWDC and Interview with the Mac Pro Product Manager - Relay Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro Lives The Mac Pro is Dead - 512 Pixels ATP 685: The Ability to Be Hotter — Accidental Tech Podcast Mac Pro Log - 512 Pixels Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro Lives How Apple Could Have (Maybe) Saved the Mac Pro - 512 Pixels Upgrade #609: The Origin of Apple - Relay Fifty - 512 Pixels Ronald G. Wayne Is More Than Two Weeks At Apple Rank the best Apple products from the last 50 years | The Verge Apple turns 50: celebrating five decades of the tech giant | The Verge Why Tim Cook Didn’t Think the iPhone Would Sell Billions | WSJ - YouTube

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What good is a Gold shimmer ink if you don’t get it all over your hands? Brad discovers shimmer in interesting places this week, including at the Atlanta Pen Show, which he recaps. Also, Goatberlet. This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Enigma Stationery: Unique items, top brands and hard-to-find imports. Get $10 off. Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Use code penaddict50off Links and Show Notes: Support The Pen Addict with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback Dromgooloe's Ink and Pens Unboxing! - YouTube Pelikan Edelstein Ink of the Year Fountain Pen Ink – Pen Chalet The Kaweco Hat Unveiling – Instagram Kaweco Hat Giveaway – Instagram Yamamoto Ro-Biki Notebooks | JetPens Uni Ballin Winner – Instagram Uni Kurutoga Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm - Orange | Enigma Stationery LAMY M17 Jetstream Ballpoint Pen Refill - F (0.7 mm) - Black | Enigma Stationery 2026 SF Stationery Fest in the books - by April Wu Thank You Atlanta! — The Pen Addict Thank You Atlanta, I Think? — The Pen Addict Franklin-Christoph Model P45 Atlanta Pen Show 2026 Edition – Instagram Sleipnir – Hinze Pen Company Fountain Telling Willow – Instagram Kiwi Inks Quetzalcoatl – Kiwi Inks The Fall Of The Aztecs - The Rest Is History Midori Paintable Stamp - Pre-Inked - Goat | JetPens Pengineer3D Double Shot Base – Pengineer3D Fountain Pen Roulette – Pengineer3D

In this April 1st edition of the show, Philip Michaels returns to steal the show from Dan and Mikah (and Jason!) and force them to compete for points for their punditry. Guest Starring: Philip Michaels and Jason Snell Links and Show Notes: Support Clockwise with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback