My Chatbot Ate My Inbox

You start this episode leveling up your daily workflows with fast, memorable tweaks: styling text in Notes with a long press, dropping today’s date into Google Sheets with a quick shortcut, testing your real-world network speed from the Mac, and turning any clipboard grab into a Preview window so you can annotate or export in a flash. You also learn that canceling an in‑app subscription doesn’t instantly nuke Family Sharing, why Safari’s pinned tabs might be quietly chewing resources, and how to right-size your browser use so it serves you instead of hijacking your Mac.
From there, you dive into practical tools for real life: apps to tame your family’s book library, a screensaver utility that slows things down, and current router picks spanning UniFi, TP-Link Wi‑Fi 7 options, Eero, and Orbi so your network actually matches your workloads.
You hear how to orchestrate multiple AI agents, safely archive and truly back up your mail, and keep your own chatbot from eating your inbox, plus Cool Stuff Found like Omerta, YouTube on Apple Vision Pro, and more—because in the Apple tech world, as in life, Don’t Get Caught without the right tools and backups in place.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1130 for Monday, February 23rd, 2026
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 Tom-QT-Long-press Aa in iPhone Notes to choose text styles
00:05:03 Avraham-QT-Use Command-Semicolon to enter current date into Google Sheets
00:06:46 Russell-QT-Use your Mac’s networkQuality to test your speed
00:10:30 Rob-QT-Paste Clipboard into Preview with Command-N
00:11:54 QT-You don’t immediately lose Family Sharing when you cancel an in-app subscription
On the subject of browsers…
00:13:28 Allison-1128-Safari’s Pinned Tabs can be resource hogs
00:17:18 How much are you using your browser these days, anyway?
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:23:58 Alan-What software exists to catalog my family’s book library?
CLZ Books
Libib
BookBuddy
Sofa
Tap Forms Pro
Goodreads
00:31:22 Ken-How do I slow down my Mac’s screensaver?
ArtSaver
00:34:54 Phillip-Which router do you recommend today?
UCG Max
TP Link Wi-Fi 7 Deco BE67 (or BE68 at Best Buy)
TP Link BE63 (also Wi-Fi 7)
Eero Pro 7
Orbi Wi-Fi 7
Reviews
00:45:40 Manhattan Glen-MGG Review-Great Show
AI Learned Something! … or … AIn’t It Cool? (Ok, obviously we need a segment name for our AI talk)
00:48:49 William-How do I set up multiple AI agents for my task?
00:55:05 Todd-QT-Use Perplexity’s website to download files it has created
00:57:09 Your mail might not be as backed-up as you think
MailSteward
01:06:57 My Chatbot ate my Inbox
OpenClaw
Cool Stuff Found
01:16:53 ATC-CSF – Omerta – Don’t Get Caught
01:19:42 Eakster-CSF-YouTube for Apple Vision Pro is here!
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