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Inside the Unified Log 5: Navigation

How to combine the time of interest with waypoints to reduce 100,000 log entries to just a handful, and discover what you’re looking for in the log.

October 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Log Literacy: Extending Ulbow with predicates, filters & styles

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How to develop predicates, filters and styles interactively, then add them to Ulbow’s settings. And how to transfer those settings to another Mac.

March 10, 2023 Macs, Technology

Log literacy: Reducing log entries shown

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How to use Ulbow to find just the log entries you need, using filters and predicates. Bring order to chaos.

January 31, 2023 Macs, Technology

Looking in the log: predicates, filters, regex, and find

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Different search and filter tools have different purposes – as demonstrated by exploring the log using Consolation 3. Regex at work!

August 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Useful filter terms for Sierra’s logs

An explicit listing of terms which are useful in filtering Sierra’s logs. This list is maintained.

March 14, 2017 Macs, Technology
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