Jonathan Reed

Oh shit, is that a print edition of The Onion? Would love to be able to have them delivered to the UK without having to pay £100.

Instant Note I’m gradually moving more and more of my workflows into Notion after years of hanging around the fringes. The company’s continued push into useful AI with their custom AI chatbot and, as of last week, Custom Agents has made it quite exciting to be around the Notion community. However, Notion can become a little unwieldy

In this week's Club @macstories.net Weekly, I wrote about a super useful app: Instant Note for Notion. It's a quick and easy way to add notes to any of your Notion databases.

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It feels like my most recent emails are trying to tell a story…

Introducing The Slate. A new app for tracking your favourite talent. YouTube video by Jonathan Reed

I even made a video run-through!
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I'm really proud of this, and I hope that if you choose to try it out, you'll find it as useful as I do.

The Slate App - App Store Download The Slate by Jonathan Reed on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like The Slate.

Today I’m launching my first-ever app, The Slate.

You can check it out now on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-s...

The Slate is the unique and easy way to keep track of upcoming movie and TV projects from your favourite actors, writers, directors, and producers.

These people.

The Apple Watch Is Right There There’s been some chatter recently about wearable AI products that Apple might be developing. AirPods with cameras, smart glasses, and an AI pendant are all rumored to be possibilities. Apple’s AI efforts have been discussed and re-discussed so much over the past few years that I don’t need to bore you by repeating the details,

In this week's Club @macstories.net Weekly column, I wrote about how I think Apple's possible AI wearable future might best be served by a product they already have.

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"Scrubs" My Screwup (TV Episode 2004) ⭐ 9.7 | Comedy, Drama 24m | TV-14

I've been rewatching Scrubs before the new season and the gut-punch in this one is still one of the best ever TV moments.

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Notification showing The Slate has been submitted to App Store review.

Here we go…

An End-of-Day Reset Shortcut On a recent episode of Clockwise, I shared a handy little automation that went down well with the other guests and realized it was one I’d never really talked about before. As I mentioned in the episode, this is a shortcut that’s become so part of my routine – while staying in the background –

In this week's Club @macstories.net Weekly column, I wrote about my very simple, but very effective, daily reset shortcut.

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Not that I'm a sad person myself, I'm very grateful for my life, they just connect with me in a 'what could have been' way.

Well, the whole story with your Dad was quite, shall we say, eventful. Then to go back to your Uncle and hear that after everything that your Dad went through, and despite your Uncle saying he was the one doing the right thing, he was still very sad. I very much connect to these sorts stories.

wow. That kinda shook me a bit.

Kicking the Tires on Agentic Coding in Xcode Last week, in a rather surprising move given the other AI-related difficulties apparently underway at the company, Apple rolled out the Xcode 26.3 release candidate with support for agentic coding. This immediately caught my eye because, as I mentioned three weeks ago, I have been using Claude’s agent, Claude Code, to build my first iOS

In this week's Club @macstories.net Weekly column, I detailed what's impressed me about Xcode's new Claude agent integration and how it has sped up work on my first iOS app.

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Just catching up on these and sweet Judas, is this horrible. Yeah, a frozen frame might look 'fine' but the actual animation – you know, the thing it's meant to be – is so terrible. Why do people think this is acceptable quality for a worldwide production?

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Join the The Slate beta Available on iOS

Next beta build for The Slate is out. Excited to hear your feedback. iCloud support now added!

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Experiences with Apple’s Icon Composer A couple of weeks ago, I talked about my experiences with Claude Code and how it enabled me to create my first iOS app. I was (and still am) unsure how I feel about AI being able to generate code from scratch, but I’m leaning towards it being a net gain. This week, I launched

In this week's Club @macstories.net Weekly column, I wrote about my experience with Apple's Icon Composer. Emphasis on 'Composer'.

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Join the The Slate beta Available on iOS

Made a bunch of improvements, tweaks, and fixes to The Slate. Latest beta is out for you beta testers. Thanks so much to all those who’ve provided feedback so far!

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Image of the app with the salmon accent colour.

Image of the app with the red accent colour.

Image of the app with the purple accent colour.

Image of the app with the green accent colour.

Finally, you can customise the visual look of the app with several accent colours.

I'm incredibly pleased with how this app realises an idea that I had over 5 years ago and I hope if you try this app you'll be pleased with it too.

I'd love to hear your feedback!

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Image of the settings page of The Slate including Calendar app integration.

The Slate features Calendar integration so you can see upcoming projects for your favourite talent in the Calendar app. You can also add a project manually.

Furthermore, for each project you can see a brief synopsis and watch a trailer. As with the talent pages, you can jump to the appropriate IMDb entry but, additionally, you can directly view the project on Sequel or Letterboxd for tracking or adding to lists.

Want to learn more about your favourite talent and see their past projects? Easily see their credit history or jump directly to their page on IMDb.

Highlighting areas of the app where multiple favourites appear on the same project.

Your Slate highlights unmissable projects where two or more of your favourites are working together. You can also view a historical timeline of past projects or define the amount of previous months that can appear in Your Upcoming Slate.

Adding Timothy Olyphant as a favourite.

The Favourites view.

The Upcoming Slate view.

So, what is The Slate?

The Slate is the quick and easy way to keep track of upcoming movie and TV projects from your favourite talent. Favourite any actor, writer, director, or producer by adding them to your favourites and see their upcoming work listed in your own personal project Slate.

Firstly, to be clear, this would not have been possible without Claude Code and Opus 4.5. This has been a revelation and enabled me to create the app from scratch alongside XCode.

I designed the app myself and prompted Claude to create it, refining and debugging over the last couple of weeks.

Join the The Slate beta Available on iOS

Years ago I had an idea for an app that I haven't been able to turn into a reality. Until now.

Introducing The Slate: Track your favourite movie and TV talent.

If you're interested in trying out the beta, I'd love to hear your feedback.

More details in the thread…

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Searching For an Offline Drive Searching Utility Let’s start by addressing that inelegant title: there isn’t really a good way of describing this category of utilities in a pithy headline. So let me break it down with an easier-to-understand explanation. My work as a freelancer over the past year has involved an increasing number of varied projects, and I’ve had to back

In this week's Club @macstories.net Weekly, I wrote about my search for the best Offline Drive Searching Utility. The selection of available apps is better than that terrible name, thankfully.

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Catherine O’Hara, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Home Alone’ Star, Dies at 71 Catherine O'Hara, a legendary Hollywood actor known for her roles in 'Schitt's Creek' and 'Home Alone,' has died. She was 71.

Genuinely very upset about this news. One of the funniest to ever do it.

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But if you'll forgive me, I find it hard to get too worked up about icon designs when Apple is putting ads for a professional creative suite in its free productivity apps. Which is the greater offense to the user experience?

Very fair point by @jasonsnell. I'll admit I was one of those complainers.
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No words would do justice as to how beautiful and often profound this series is. A true work of art. Joe Bennett is now my new person to watch after this and Common Side Effects.

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Scavengers Reign

Stunning. Put this top of your list if you haven't watched it yet.