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How we work: William Gallagher’s mess of Mac apps and cables

William doesn’t just work at AppleInsider, he also has a bunch of other writing assignments going constantly. Here’s how William juggles not just the demands here, but everywhere else too.

That green keyboard toward the back is my newest and quite expensive toy, a Duolingo Piano

I’m Deputy Chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and also do some work for a UK charity, so I tend to have whole sets of apps and documents that I switch between. Whatever I’ve been doing before AppleInsider, I run a Keyboard Maestro macro and all of those apps and documents are closed, then everything I need for AppleInsider is opened.

Every day — seven days a week — starts with the Fantastical calendar and OmniFocus To Do apps on my iPhone. The alarm goes off, those two apps go on, and I’m checking what I must do that day. Invariably the day means being at my office M1 Mac mini or on my M1 Max 14-inch MacBook Pro, and AppleInsider work always starts with Keyboard Maestro.

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