An interesting thing happened. I wanted to try a bigger screen with the iPad, so got the same 27" 4K monitor as my wife. It's great, but showed how limited Stage Manager etc is on iPadOS.
When getting a longer Thunderbolt cable, I found our occasional-use M2 MacBook Air, hooked it up to my dock โ with monitor, speakers, split keyboard, trackpad โ to try out the latest macOS. Andโฆ I like it!
So, experimentally and after 8+ years, I'm back on a Mac. Any suggestions for nifty utilities etc?
@mattgemmell I would submit:
Launchbar: multi mode launcher, clipboard mgr, calculator. Amazing tool - bit of a learning curve, but so powerful!
Magnet or Moom - window mgr
Find Any File - amazing search tool
Keyboard Maestro - for customization
TextSniper - life changing snapshot to text
KeyCue is an interesting shortcut app
StopTheMadness - stop web annoyances
Not quite serious:
MSWord
Xcode
Stickynote app ๐
@mattgemmell It's been *that* long...?
1) CleanShot X: reminded me positively of Skitch before the Evernote acquisition.
2) Maybe try the Arc browser now that you're on Mac.
I don't run many nifty utility apps that aren't my own the rest of the day :)
@mattgemmell https://setapp.com/ with some interesting apps to try out:
Permute
Soulver
NotePlan
Bike
Hookmark
TaskPaper
BetterTouchTool
CleanShot X
iStat Menus
Numi
Folx
Create and edit TaskPaper files in Ruby. Export to HTML and CSS, with Less-based auto-conversion of your TaskPaper theme. - mattgemmell/TaskPaperRuby
@mattgemmell The same person also authored Bike https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/ which inherited some things from TaskPaper. I use it mainly for debugging or dev journals.
Honestly, I wish there were something similar to VoodooPad, but alas -_-
@mattgemmell raycast if you like keyboard driven workflows.
Aerospace for tiling window manager, if you love configuring things exactly the way you want.
Ghostty if you need a good/fast terminal
@mattgemmell Ice, a Menu bar manager. In beta but very capable, less complex than Bartender.
https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
Will second iStat Menus.
I also Parallels Toolbox that comes with Parallels Desktop, which you can get separately. Lots of nifty, lightweight goodies that have nothing with do with running a VM.
https://www.parallels.com/products/toolbox/
AirBuddy if you also use Airpods, for device connection management but it manages other Apple devices as well.
@mattgemmell Finally, Apparency. Kind of an app launcher, but really provides you with lots of details about the app you're launching. Activate the preview panel and just 1-click on any app to see its details. Kind of addictive.
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