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Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by tailspin2019 »

NaOH wrote: post #27

Keyboard Maestro allows you to simplify or automate nearly any task. No words here can capture its capabilities. Additional perks are its stability, no subscriptions (and discounted upgrade pricing for existing users), and a helpful support forum.

I really like Keyboard Maestro but I found myself gravitating back to Hammerspoon after a while and just building out a library of scripts for everything I used Keyboard Maestro for (and quite a bit more).

For someone using neither of these tools yet, Keyboard Maestro is probably the nicer one to start with to give you a taste for how useful some of those automations can be!

Both are pretty powerful.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by mike_hearn »

Shortcat: https://shortcat.app/

It makes it VERY easy to keep your fingers on the keyboard almost all the time, which really helps things fly. It's an equivalent of the AceJump plugin for IntelliJ if you've used that, but it uses the accessibility tree instead of the contents of the editor.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by nyantaro1 »

Justsignedup wrote: post #37

Can't use Mac without rectangle. You don't need magnet. Owly is my fav for anti sleeping at certain times. Though critical to disable the ads via startup features. I haven't found abetter one. Though it has quirks. Also some commands in the cli for like key repeat. Like wtf why can't I turn off accent hold when I want to repeat letters.

- I cannot use my mac without rectangle.

- Karabiner-elements will disable the keyboard automatically when I connect my external bluetooth keyboard.

- github.com/exelban/stats is an excellent macOS system monitor in your menu bar

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by aiisjustanif »

ZeroTalent wrote: post #173

- Arc Browser – a complete game changer in terms of productivity – this app alone is worth switching from Windows/Linux (They have a Windows version, but it's lagging behind, not to mention there's no Android version and sync) - AeroSpace Window Manager since i got to know it this week (replacing Wins, which replaced free Rectangle) - Sensei for hardware checks/cleanups - Yomu for ebooks - Xnapper for beautiful scree…

Interesting that Arc Browser is reason enough to switch from windows or Linux. I see a people love it, but it doesn’t do well for my ADHD brain.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by cassianoleal »

lemonwaterlime wrote: post #168
veidr wrote: post #159

iTerm2[2] and I'm astonished there's less mention of it on this thread (though there is some). That is mainly because I switched mostly to Linux a few years ago, and you'd think the lack of a good terminal app wouldn't be the biggest pain point of switching from Mac to Linux, but it absolutely is. There's no terminal app on Linux even close to as good as iTerm2. [2]: https://iterm2.com/ but it's v3 tho ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

The reason is that there was a recent controversy[0]. Many people have moved to alacritty/kitty/wezterm. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432446

Pretty ridiculous controversy. Opt-in feature, disabled until you paste your own OpenAI API key on it.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by cassianoleal »

rewgs wrote: post #186
veidr wrote: post #159

iTerm2[2] and I'm astonished there's less mention of it on this thread (though there is some). That is mainly because I switched mostly to Linux a few years ago, and you'd think the lack of a good terminal app wouldn't be the biggest pain point of switching from Mac to Linux, but it absolutely is. There's no terminal app on Linux even close to as good as iTerm2. [2]: https://iterm2.com/ but it's v3 tho ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

I'm an iTerm user as well, but I hardly use any of its features -- I stick with it primarily because its font rendering is better than any other terminal I've tried on macOS. My needs are pretty minimal and aren't terminal-dependent, e.g. tmux, neovim...that's about it. I just need the terminal to display text, really. What features from iTerm make you love it so much?

I'm not GP, but tab splitting and tmux Control Codes integration are 2 of my main productivity features in any software.

I haven't found any other terminal emulator that has them. On Linux, Konsole has decent splitting but no `tmux -CC`.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by prometheon1 »

waffletower wrote: post #182
prometheon1 wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you explain what makes Arc Browser a game changer in terms of productivity? I use Firefox with a vertical tabs extension and based on the screenshots it looks very similar (also, using Firefox Containers solves the same problem as GoLogin afaict)

Arc also allows you to large-scale organization of tabs with 'spaces'. I have been using Arc (including now) for a few months and find it provides much more efficient organization than Chrome, Safari and Firefox -- however, I have not attempted to use extensions for navigation/organization improvements as you have.

Spaces sound somewhat similar to "panels" in Sidebery for Firefox, they can be used to split workspaces, e.g. for different projects/clients. You can make each panel use a different container, which is helpful to be logged in with different users on the same websites. You can also "unload" panels easily to save RAM and to ignore them until the next time you work on them.
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