This week Fraser and Federico take another pass at managing tasks on iOS, this time looking at implementing Getting Things Done with OmniFocus on iOS. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Igloo : An intranet you’ll actually like, free for up to 10 people. Links and Show Notes: OmniFocus is one of the big beasts of the task management arena on iOS. OmniFocus of course started as a Mac app in 2008 and has migrated onto iOS as time has gone by. Omnifocus on iOS is one part of a whole system that...
Aug 05, 2016•49 min•Ep. 16
This week Fraser and Federico take a pass at task management on iOS. This is another area of productivity where iOS is very well served for options. Links and Show Notes: There are thousands of to do list applications on the App Store, but we take a look at one heavyweight app and one lighter app this week. Our heavyweight app is Federico's task manager of choice, Todoist. For our lighter, simpler, option we also take a look at Apple reminders which, despite its simplicity, still has a level of ...
Jul 22, 2016•41 min•Ep. 15
This week Fraser and Federico dive into managing your calendar on iOS. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Tap Coding : A brand new app to help you learn Swift programming on your iPad or iPhone. Links and Show Notes: Many of us live and die by our calendars. Having a digital calendar in your pocket has been an important use case for mobile professionals since the early days of Psion organisers and Palm Pilots. Today, we have a huge range of options for calendaring on iOS. Let's look at some...
Jul 08, 2016•42 min•Ep. 14
This week Fraser is joined by writer David Chartier to explore some of the stranger things you can do with iOS. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: MartianCraft : Training crafted just for you. Guest Starring: David Chartier Links and Show Notes: Canvas listeners are used to discussions of email clients, file management and ways to handle the web. Have you thought about turning iOS devices into baby monitors, music stands, DIY tools and display screens? We'll get into all of that this week. ...
Jun 24, 2016•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 13
This week Fraser and Federico dig into how to program on iOS. Links and Show Notes: The mission of Canvas has always been to illuminate the parts of iOS that people think can't be done. In that spirit, this week Fraser and Federico dig into how to program on iOS. We take a look at both traditional Integrated Development Environment tools such as Pythonista and Codea and block-based programming tools like Editorial, Workflow and Hopscotch. Featured Apps Pythonista Editorial Workflow Hopscotch Cod...
Jun 10, 2016•49 min•Ep. 12
This week Fraser and Federico discuss travelling with iOS devices. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Airtable : Organise anything you can imagine. Links and Show Notes: With summer - and WWDC - coming up, Fraser and Federico bring you advice on the equipment, apps and tweaks for your iOS devices that you need when travelling with your iOS devices. The the travel bags are opened to reveal the essentials within. Fraser and Federico share their favourite travel accessories, techniques for get...
May 27, 2016•53 min•Ep. 11
This week Fraser and Federico (particularly Federico) drop serious knowledge on 3rd party iOS mail clients. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Airtable : Organise anything you can imagine. Links and Show Notes: What are they good for? Where do they have hard limitations? Which ones are the best? Federico makes his picks and explains how these clients can hook into other parts of your workflow to really enhance your mail processing on iOS. Featured Apps Apple Mail Spark Dispatch Airmail Emai...
May 13, 2016•54 min•Ep. 10
This week Fraser flies the show solo to talk about his experience in creating, delivering and sharing presentations with iOS. Links and Show Notes: Travelling with such light and simple devices is a dream come true for many road warriors, but can iOS truly deliver the power required to be an end-to-end presentation platform? Featured Apps Keynote PowerPoint Google Slides Prezi Paper by 53 Featured Workflows Force Open In (to access the full Share Sheet from Office apps)...
Apr 29, 2016•43 min•Ep. 9
This week Fraser and Federico tackle email on iOS using everyone's default client Apple Mail. Links and Show Notes: You might think of Apple Mail as being a slightly weak client but, as we shall see, it's more powerful than you think. We tackle some of the special smart mailboxes that exist in Apple Mail, look at notifications and composing mail. This week, it's Federico's turn to confess something. Featured Apps Airmail Dispatch Apple Mail Featured Workflows Probably our biggest complaint about...
Apr 15, 2016•49 min•Ep. 8
This week Fraser and Federico investigate the rich world of camera-based scanners on iOS. Links and Show Notes: Scanning with just the camera on the back of the device is an area of iOS that has been around for many years and has matured significantly over that time. The latest generation of iOS scanner apps, coupled with ever-better cameras on our devices are really very usable scanners indeed. Couple that with increasingly sophisticated post-scan workflows and you have a tool that James Bond c...
Apr 01, 2016•46 min•Ep. 7
This week Fraser and Federico talk about generating, managing and annotating PDF files on iOS. Links and Show Notes: iOS is a platform with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to PDF creation, management and annotation. Most major iOS apps will allow you to convert their documents to PDF (we'll teach you how to make Word do the right thing). There are tools galore for managing PDFs and tools like PDF Expert - along with Apple Pencil allow very natural marking up and annotating on PDF docume...
Mar 18, 2016•39 min•Ep. 6
This week Fraser and Federico dig into how to be more efficient with typing and text entry on iOS. Links and Show Notes: There are several things you can do to become a better keyboard user on iOS. Some of the areas we cover include: Learning the 'swipe up' shortcut on several keys such as comma and period. Tap and hold on certain keys for alternate characters such as accented characters. Mastering the Trackpad Mode on iOS 9. Using the keyboard's shortcut bar. Using the iOS system-wide Text Repl...
Mar 04, 2016•50 min•Ep. 5
This week Fraser and Federico go in-depth on serious photo editing on iOS. Links and Show Notes: In this show, Fraser and Federico look at four major applications for iOS: Photos itself, Pixelmator, Adobe Lightroom Mobile and Snapseed. All of these are very powerful applications for serious photo editing on iOS, each with their own particular strengths. We also look at apps which provide Photo Editing Extensions. These are small bundles of features that can be accessed directly inside the editin...
Feb 19, 2016•44 min•Ep. 4
Federico and Fraser go in-depth on modern photo management on iOS devices. Links and Show Notes: Our featured apps this week are: Screenshot managers: Screenshot++ and LightScreen . Image editing: Snapseed . Screenshot stitching: LongScreen and Tailor . Photo library cleanup: Flic . Photo metadata inspectors: Metapho , PhotoMeta and ViewExif . Live Photos: Lively , Alive and Lean . Burst Photo converter: Burstio . Photos from times past: Photo Flashback . Scanners: Scanbot and Scanner Pro . Work...
Feb 05, 2016•55 min•Ep. 3
Federico and Fraser go in-depth on the Document Picker and Document Provider system in iOS 9. Links and Show Notes: Apps of Note Dropbox Google Drive Box OneDrive PDF Expert Kymatica Audioshare Working Copy Transmit Workflows Pick file, upload it elsewhere, share links with people Save images from Photos to document provider...
Jan 22, 2016•38 min•Ep. 2
Federico and Fraser discuss uploading and downloading files from and to websites on iOS. Links and Show Notes: Featured Apps Safari iCab Mobile Readdle Documents 5 GoodReader Workflow Editorial Relevant Workflows Download File - Workflow Download File - Editorial...
Jan 08, 2016•31 min•Ep. 1
