# Summer Projects: Automation, Email, and Dictation

An episode of [AppStories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1227872143), 3 Aug 2026, 50 min.

Audio: https://mgln.ai/e/613/pscrb.fm/rss/p/media.transistor.fm/d9464201/0bbcf9e4.mp3

This week on AppStories, Federico and John cover the app and agent experiments they’re both running. On AppStories+, John explores the sort of rapid workflow iteration enabled by agents. Also available on YouTube here. Subscribe here. We deliver AppStories+ to subscribers with bonus content, ad-free, and at a high bitrate early every week. To learn more about an AppStories+ subscription, visit our Plans page, or read the AppStories+ FAQ. This episode is sponsored by: • Inoreader – Build Your Own Newsfeed and Cut Through the Noise • Shipaton, from RevenueCat: The world’s biggest mobile hackathon for people who actually ship. Links and Show Notes Summertime Projects John’s Logic to Final Cut Automation • Logic Pro • Final Cut Pro • Riverside Federico Switches Email Clients • Superhuman • Spark • ChatGPT Work • Codex Federico Retests Dictation Apps • Wispr Flow • Monologue • Aqua Voice • Typeless • Superwhisper T3 Code • T3 Code • T3 Code on GitHub • Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben John’s Research System • Parallel • Firecrawl • Defuddle AppStories+ Post-Show: • Advancing Voice Intelligence With New Models in the API (OpenAI) • Desert Ant Labs • Pokémon Red & Blue mod turns the classic RPG into a sick 3D voxel game Leave Feedback for John and Federico • AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Mastodon • AppStories • Federico Viticci • John Voorhees Follow us on Bluesky • AppStories • MacStories • Federico Viticci • John Voorhees Join Annual $50/yearJoin Monthly $5/month

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