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. Andโ€ฆ I like it!

So, experimentally and after 8+ years, I'm back on a Mac. Any suggestions for nifty utilities etc?

@mattgemmell https://setapp.com/ with some interesting apps to try out:

Permute
Soulver
NotePlan
Bike
Hookmark
TaskPaper
BetterTouchTool
CleanShot X
iStat Menus
Numi
Folx

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GitHub - mattgemmell/TaskPaperRuby: Create and edit TaskPaper files in Ruby. Export to HTML and CSS, with Less-based auto-conversion of your TaskPaper theme.

Create and edit TaskPaper files in Ruby. Export to HTML and CSS, with Less-based auto-conversion of your TaskPaper theme. - mattgemmell/TaskPaperRuby

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@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 -_-

Bike Outliner: Structured & focused writing app for Mac

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