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- Rectangle: Window management
- A Better Finder Rename: (not actually daily) A nice GUI for renaming large numbers of files
- Day One: A journaling app. I'm not willing to pay a subscription for that (I have strong feelings about App subscriptions) but the unpaid version is fine for me.
- LittleSnitch per-application firewall, mostly for selectively granting outbound access but also controls inbound access (In general, you also need the built-in firewall setup and running correctly too.) - BlockBlock, KnockKnock, and RansomWhere, but not LuLu because it caused TCP connections to drop nondeterministically - ScrollReverser to fix standalone mouse scrolling behavior because macOS only has one mouse and…
Dropover - Any file you are dragging, just wiggle it and a little shelf shows up where you can put it temporarily
Shottr/Cleanshot - For markup and pinning info on the screen
I also use quite a lot of my own written software
ScreenMemory - It's similar to Rewind/Recall (but without AI), I revisit days before standups and retrospectives
Monkey Notes - Sticky notes that attach to application windows
DevControls - Basically a list of repositories with shortcuts, this is a reimplementation of scripts I used to have in BitBar/xbar/SwiftBar (which in themselves are amazing applications)
I also have a custom fork of the much recommended Rectangle with some more mouse driven interactions that I've been using for almost two years.
- Itsycal (https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/)
- Kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/)
- Magnet (https://magnet.crowdcafe.com)
If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai - https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd - https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar Some honorable mentions: Hammerspoon - Unlock insane levels of configuration/automation ( https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon ) Raycast - Spotlight search replacement ( https://w…
- Karabiner-Elements[0] for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this.
- Kitty[1] as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to configure/theme and seems well-documented.
- Hammerspoon[2] for a DIY automation/keybinding/window management sys scriptable via lua. I use a private fork of this config: https://github.com/jasonrudolph/keyboard/tree/main
- Vivid[3] to make my macbook's screen brighter when outdoors on sunny days. This is important for me, since I try to spend as much time outside as possible.
[0] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
[1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
- TripMode for reducing data usage while tethering
- KeyboardCleanTool for disabling the keyboard when wiping it down
Git Fork: a git client with a similar level of polish to Tower, but as a one-time purchase instead of a subscription product. https://git-fork.com/