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

William don’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.

Desk setup with keyboard, Stream Deck displaying multiple icons, a red tumbler, wireless earbuds case, clock, and a small keyboard under a large monitor.
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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