Mavis

After catching up about the lockdown and the best foil to use, we discuss streaming services. Jordan finally has a desk at home, and Andrew has made some upgrades of his own. We wrap up the episode with the games that we’re playing and what we’re looking forward to in gaming.

An evening-made episode of Mavis in which we discuss Jordans new Surface Book and the pains of his old one, Electron apps and their issues, Jony Ive leaving Apple and modern day computing.

After OP-Z follow up, we run through more new pens Andrew has, and the obvious best options for the new European electric vehicle laws on emitting external sound before moving on to our main topic, Jordan is learning to fly!

After Field Notes & travelling follow up, we discuss the main announcements from WWDC 2019 (also known as “dubdub") that matter to us, before finally discussing Jules’ new OP-Z.

An Apple-heavy episode in which we discuss Jules’ new iPhone, AirPods cancellation, AirPods, AirPods and AirPods.

This episode is packed full of golf, iOS applications for cars, books, new pens, notebook changes and Apple products.

Recorded during the SpaceX Demo-1 mission, we discuss a few Kickstarters related to stationery, Jules’ new wallet and the Panobooks we finally got our hands on, as well as frequent updates on how cool space is from Jordan.

Facebook & Google have their Apple enterprise certificates revoked, which means we can chat about how much we dislike them again! We discuss the issues relating to how Apple handled the FaceTime privacy bug, and Andrew shares his experience editing podcasts on the iPad Pro using Ferrite and an Apple Pencil.

Star Trek Discovery Season 2 discussions lead us down a violence-based rabbit hole, Andrew finally receives his new corner desk extension and we discuss how we like our workspaces.

Jordan gets some new books and needs a place to contain them, Andrew has a bunch of new fountain pens with one very special item and Julian gets a cover for his Hobonichi Weeks.

As Andrew asks Julian to buy another fountain pen, we follow up on stationery and discuss how Jordan is getting on with the analogue world again. We’ve all been reading more books recently, and have things we are looking forward to in 2019! Oh, we also ended up talking about desks, charging and of course, Julian brought up OneNote.

Jordan is back from his travels, and after follow up we discuss the changes Jordan is making in his stationery and digital life, alongside our issues with digital notes organisation. Andrew makes a special purchase and digs in to the fountain pen world, then discusses his new 11” iPad Pro, how he’s set it up and his general thoughts and review on the device and it’s accessories.

Brad Dowdy, The Pen Addict, joins us as our very first guest on Mavis to talk all about the world of stationery! After catching up with who Brad is and what Brad does, we talk Jetstreams and “standard pens”, getting in to fountain pens, productivity in paper and overall talk about a bunch of great pens, pencils and paper! Special Guest: Brad Dowdy.

After a break, we have some catching up to do! We discuss Apple’s September event, Surface’s October event and the new MacBook Air’s, Mac Mini’s and the long awaited iPad Pro’s from Apple’s October Event! Andrew has new devices, Jordan has been doing more reading and wants a Kindle, wrapping up with Jules and Andrew catch up on what our 2019 planners will be!

Andrew has taken the simple approach to his desk as the corner-extension arrives soon, oh and we have Mavis stickers! Julian has a new Surface Go device and found his iPhone to be helpful for staying in touch with work-things. Lastly, we discuss designing software with a colour-filter active, Andrew rages at Teams and the upcoming Apple & Surface events!

In the news of Atlassian folding HipChat customers in to Slack, we complain about how Slack isn’t responsive and how Microsoft Teams’ notifications aren’t native yet, again. Following Andrews recent investment in his office we discuss how we like our workspaces to be, what we need and like including lighting conditions, the arm-status of chairs, the troubles of charging and so much much more.

Andrew experiences High Sierra’s & Mojave’s Window Server bugs and Microsoft’s Andromeda device was featured on The Verge & Mac Rumours. Jules’ currently performing his summer review in which he has made some interesting changes to his devices! We also discuss how the Read Later problem is not solved yet.

We now know Siri Shortcuts is better than Workflow! Jordan has a new phone, Andrews is scratched to hell. After Andrews Theme of the Year wasn’t going so well, and had to be adjusted, he’s turned it around and made some changes, including a migration to OmniFocus and major changes in “The System”.

Microsoft buys GitHub and appoints Xamarin CEO. Moving swiftly past tvOS, we discuss the changes in iOS12, watchOS 5 and macOS that matter to us and Jules and Jordan discuss WSLtty and terminal emulators in Windows.

Back in to the swing of things, we catch up on our Theme for the Year’s, and how it’s affecting our productivity, routines and life overall. Julian goes all in on iPhone and loves his new Apple Watch.