My rule of thumb to integrate a new tool to my daily workflow is to wait until I Google a tool to solve one of my problems, that repeat frequently enough, and then integrate it into my workflow. So, I would treat this list as an "exploration" step, and download the tools which you think are useful to your workflow.
- 🫴 Raycast: Supercharged spotlight search. Easy to:
- access clipboard history
- search emoji (I found this more useful than the Rocket app)
- manage windows
- translate from/to any language
- search notes in Obsidian
- search for synonyms or missing letters
- get and generate Bitwarden passwords
- get 2FA codes saved in Authy
- do a speed test
- set timers
- 💵 BusyCal: Allows me to see reminders on the calendar, and add events/tasks using NLP.
- 🫴 Meeting Bar: Shows the next event on the menu bar.
- 🫴 Obsidian: Note taking app that supports markdown, is customisable with plugins, smoothly syncs between iOS-MacOS using iCloud. Easy to:
- 🫴 Arc browser: Chromium browser focused on distraction-free GUI. Killer features:
- split view multiple pages/tabs
- open existing tab instead of creating a new one
- distraction-free GUI
- 🫴 or 💵 🔁: Grammarly: Checks my English grammar. I tried LanguageTool, but I prefer Grammarly because it catches more grammar mistakes and is less buggy.
- 💡 🫴 How do I make my mac not connect to my bluetooth headset's microphone?
- 🫴 AirPodsSanity: If the method above doesn't work, install and open AirPodsSanity which will be visible and configrable on the menu bar.
- 💡 🫴 How to kill the delay to hide and show the dock?
- kill delay:
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0.0001; killall Dock - restore to normal:
defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay; killall Dock
- kill delay:
- 💡 🫴 How do I lock vertical resize of the dock?
- lock vertical resizing:
defaults write com.apple.dock size-immutable -bool yes && killall Dock - unlock vertical resizing:
defaults write com.apple.dock size-immutable -bool no && killall Dock
- lock vertical resizing:
- 🫴 Cd to...: Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal.
- 🫴 ColorSlurp: Color picker
- 🫴 DevToys: Developer tools to compare text, decode/encode url/jwt, format json/xml/sql, generate hash/uuid...
- 🫴 Terminal.app extensions: Install Oh My Zsh to be able to install plugins (i.e., zsh-syntax-highlighting). Install Powerlevel10k theme along a supported font to have a fancy breadcrumb for Git and timestamp for each line. Lastly, import a nice base theme such as Gruvbox theme.
Result:
- 🫴 Monitor Control: Control the brightness of each connected monitor.
- 💵 Lunar: Control brightness of your monitors in more detail. I bought it to automatically turn off my built-in display when it's connected to an external display.
- 🫴 Shottr: Copy and paste screenshots effortlessly.
- 🫴 Owl OCR: Copy text in images.
- 🫴 Espanso: Text expander. I use this and not the MacOS text expander since it is possible to write mulitple line or variable (i.e., todays date in a nice format) texts.
- 🫴 CapsLockNoDelay: Removes the annoying delay after pressing on the caps lock key.
- Add this to startup: System preferences > Users & Groups > Select a user on the side bar > Login items > +
- 🫴 MOS: Smooth scroll reverser that doesn't bug out.
- 🫴 SteelSeries Exact Mouse: Removes mouse acceleration for real.
- 💵 SoundSource: Sound controller that doesn't bug out and easy to use.
- 🫴 Hidden: Hides icons on the menu bar.
- 🫴 Coconut Battery: Displays extra battery info on the menu bar (i.e., how many hours of usage is left).
Removed Pure Paste (Paste as plain text by default), because most applications allow pasting without formatting with the
SHIFT+CMD+Vkeyboard shortcut.