How many of you use #LaTeX, and also use #BetterTouchTool or some other kind of macro manager? Would you like something to make your life easier?

I've been using BTT forever to do window tiling and system control tasks. When I started grad school, I decided to do all my homework typeset in LaTeX, because my professors seemed nice and did not deserve to be subjected to my handwriting. This, of course, was tedious af, and I went in search of tools.

Long story short, I hated most of the LaTeX editors out there, and I'm now using TeX Shop and my own custom batch of macros that, I believe, radically improve my LaTeX writing speed. For example:

`…i` gives "\(\implies\)"
`,,,f` gives "`\frac{}{}`" with the text insertion point in the numerator
`;;;m` gives the `begin` and `end` statements for `bmatrix`, with the insertion point set appropriately

...and more. Piles of them, moderately well organized, used in conjunction with a short `.sty` file containing some macros that come in handy for the classes I'm taking. Everything is optimized for the stuff I do most commonly on a Dvorak keyboard, but it's easy to edit to suit your needs.

Anyway, is anyone interested enough that I should take a couple hours to tidy it up and throw it on GitHub?

Macの入力デバイス用ユーティリティ「BetterTouchTool」がLogitech製マウスとキーボードのサポートを大幅に改善。Logitech HID++ 2.0プロトコルの実装によりLogi Options+がなくてもMX Masterマウスの様々な機能が利用可能に。
https://applech2.com/archives/20260110-bettertouchtool-logitech-support-without-logi-options-plus.html

#applech2 #BetterTouchTool #Logi_Option #Logitech #Mac #アップデート #アプリ #キーボード #マウス #有料

Something I often miss on #Linux that's doable on #macOS is something like #BetterTouchTool.

BTT is magic. If your input device has buttons, you can use BTT to make them do damn near anything. I have it set so I hold ctrl and click the left or right mouse buttons to switch between Spaces. The first thing I always do when I set it up on a fresh install is map the scrollwheel button to activate Expose, showing me all the open windows and Spaces. But there are some folks who use it to fire off macros that can do pretty much anything you might want them to do.

The best I can find on Linux is Input Remapper. It works, but is ridiculously limited by comparison. Firstly, you can't combine keyboard and mouse combos, so I can't replicate ctrl+Left/Right mouse to switch between desktops. But also, you can only autoload one preset per device. So I can set it so that mouse button 4+Left switches to the desktop to the left, and so on, and I can map clicking the scroll wheel to Super+W to show all the windows, but I can't have them all active at the same time. So it's largely useless.

I often wish the guy behind BTT could knock out a port for Linux. I'd pay for it all over again if he did.

Vor rund drei Jahren bin ich von Windows auf macOS gewechselt und obwohl ich mittlerweile recht gut damit klarkomme, vermisse ich die eine oder andere Möglichkeit von Windows. Zum Beispiel das Windowsmenü links unten, das die häufigsten Programme beinhaltete. Klar, irgendwie bekommt man es auch unter macOS hin, aber ich beobachte mich auch, wie ich mit der Maus automatisch nach links unten fahre, um das Menü zu öffnen. […]

https://littlecompany.de/b/NrV

#betterTouchTool #macos #tutorial

💡 If you're on #macOS26 and want to access the new clipboard manager built into #Spotlight with a single keypress (instead of CMD+Space followed by CMD+4), you can use #BetterTouchTool to automate this.

❓Does anyone know if there's a built-in way to accomplish this? 🤔

@llo_ai thanks so much for creating BTT. It has always been the “missing glue" in so many parts of my daily Mac workflow. I don't know what I'd do without it, haha 😅

here are some more walkthroughs for the bettertouchtool app. i hope they are helpful to begin with. among them are topics like context menus, hidden files and the middle mouse button. enjoy!

http://cogmodo.com/contextmenuswithbettertouchtool

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #apple #automation #bettertouchtool #btt

as a longtime sceptic i'm finally all in with the hyperkey. here's how to set it up with the help of the bettertouchtool app

http://cogmodo.com/hyperkeywithbettertouchtool

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #apple #automation #bettertouchtool #btt #hyperkey

MacOS Apps That I Use And Really Enjoy

About 3 to 4 months ago I went to the Apple Store at Friendly Center in Greensboro, NC to pick up my M4 Mac Mini. This would be my first official use of MacOS on any kind of a regular basis. I’ve learned a lot along the way and have discovered a lot of different apps. The list below are just a few of the apps that I have discovered and use regularly that I feel others might want to know about and use as well.

Bartender 5

Bartender lets you hide icons on the menu bar, so you can keep only the most important ones visible, while the rest can be displayed when you click Bartender’s icon or even just hover over the menu bar. I was previously using Ice Menu Bar, but discovered that Bartender 5 has a bit more customization that I like and enjoy.

Above is what my menu bar looks like when I have the extra icons hidden that I don’t want to see at all times. It’s very minimal and of course can be even more minimal than this if you so choose.

When I hover over the menu bar, then all of these other icons appear. They are hidden mainly because I rarely use them so I don’t need to see them at all times like I do with the other icons you see in the first screenshot.

There is a free trial of Bartender 5 that you can use for up to 4 weeks so you get a sense of how well the app works for you. If you find it useful enough to keep using it, then pricing is listed below. If you’re a SetApp subscriber, Bartender 5 is available via SetApp at no extra charge to you.

Latest

Latest is a free and open source app for macOS that checks if all your apps are up to date. Get a quick overview of which apps changed and what changed and update them right away. Latest currently supports apps downloaded from the Mac App Store and apps that use Sparkle for updates, which covers most of the apps on the market.

Forgot what was new in that update you installed yesterday? Latest can show you release notes for apps that are already up to date. See what has changed in the update, now in a beautiful uniform design.

Latest helps me keep everything updated as I am one that does not like to have apps or software that aren’t updated to the latest versions at all times. Just something that really bothers me and Latest helps me not worry about.

What’s surprising about Latest is that it’s completely free. There is a donate. option via the developers website if you’d like to donate to help keep the app maintained and updated, but that’s completely optional.

BetterTouchTool

A feature-packed app for customizing all kinds of inputs for your computer. You can define keyboard shortcuts, mouse and trackpad gestures, control Stream Deck, manage your computer from your phone using BTT Remote, customize the content of the Touch Bar, and more.

There’s just so much that BTT can do that is useful and beneficial in my opinion. It’s really changed the way I use my Mac as far as not using the mouse as much as I did when I first made the switch to MacOS a few months ago. I can easily access the things I need and want with the touch of one or two keys on my keyboard.

BetterTouchTool is available to purchase directly from the site, which I linked to above and it’s very affordable especially for everything that it does. Again, if you are a SetApp subscriber, you can get BetterTouchTool for free included with your subscription. Check it out as you won’t be disappointed.

Rectangle

If you’re one who likes or needs to move app windows around in various ways and are looking for a simple, easy to use app that has a ton of shortcuts for doing so, then Rectangle is certainly for you.

Here’s how Rectangle can make your life easier: grab a window, take it to the edge or corner of the screen, and you will see a footprint that illustrates how it will be moved and resized. Depending on where you position the cursor, the window will be resized to cover a certain area of the desktop.

Move it to a corner, and it will be adjusted to take up a quarter of the screen; move it to either side, and it will fill half the desktop; move it to the bottom, and it will cover either one third or two thirds of the screen; finally, move it to the top to quickly make the window full-screen.

Rectangle has a 10-day free trial, or you can upgrade for just $9.99 USD. This is a lifetime license for only $9.99 as well, at least as far as I can tell which again, is a really good deal considering everything it allows you to do.

Final Thoughts

This is obviously just a very short list of the apps I use and have discovered since coming over to MacOS 3 – 4 months ago. There are many others, but I wanted to do a short list as I feel most people will read shorter articles rather than long drawn out articles.

This is also kind of part two of my app series I guess you could say. You can read my first post that I made here a while back: MacOS Apps That I Like.

Tell me some of your favorite apps for MacOS that you enjoy, use regularly and recommend to others. I’m always looking to discover more new apps that I might not have known I needed until someone else recommended it to me! You can list your favorite, most recommended apps in the comments below if you’d like!

#Apple #Apps #Bartender5 #BetterTouchTool #Computers #LatestApp #MacOS #PC #RectangleApp #Technology