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Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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It's a small detail, but after moving to iOS from Android recently I discovered Universal Clipboard: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT209460 . You copy text on one device and paste it on the other. A great piece of UX, and an example of the best interface being no interface at all.

KDE Connect has a shared clipboard plugin.

https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Clipboard

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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The Swype button in the Swype keyboard for Android. Press it and the word where the cursor is will be selected (like control+w in some desktop editors). Swipe from that key to c/v/x and you will copy/paste/cut directly. Swipe to the space bar and you will change input language. And swipe to other keys to access different keyboards modes.

No other keyboard I know has it (if you do know please tell me!) and I feel extremely slow without it.

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I'm using it with https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst . It's ok and I couldn't manage without.

Thanks! I run Ubuntu on my personal machine and haven't found a suitable alternative yet. The more time I spend on my Mac work machine the more I'm thinking about switching my personal one due to this

Amethyst is a poor man's reimplementation of xmonad. Just use it on your Ubuntu machine.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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post #32

- Letterboxd, as a movie fanatic, this app is great, and its community seems very welcoming. - Feedly, it almost makes me forget I'm really missing Greader. - Stripe, docs, dashboard, landing pages--everything they do ends up being top notch. - Github (this is a weird one), didn't really appreciate the care for the UI until I had to use Gitlab extensively, the worst offenders are the PR UI--everything looks so clutte…

Letterboxd is a shining pinnacle of a website for me. It's more or less unchanged in the 7+ years I've used it as their product is so good that they don't feel the need to change it up to much. This is so counter to most other websites and social networks where there's a disastrous rebrand every 3-5 years.

All they've added is solid features that add value to the product without ever touching the branding or core platform that has been working for them for so long

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I use one external monitor and MacBook screen. I full screen all applications and switch between them using control and the arrow key. So my external monitor has email, IDE, and misc stuff. Screen has browser, terminal, chat application. Pressing control + up allows you to easily reorder and move elements. It's helpful to turn off the default option of automatically sorting your screens

Ah, interesting. I think we've arrived at a very similar setup, albeit implemented in different ways. I too use a MacBook and external monitor, and fullscreen my apps, but I just let them take up the whole screen minus the bar at the top, rather than explicitly use the fullscreen new workspace feature. I then swap between apps by binding all my most common apps to F1-F6 using Thor, which I find is easier to navigate…

Whenever I want to look at two things at once I display each item on a different screen.

If I really want to do split screen (very rarely), I press control + up and then drag one screen over.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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I use one external monitor and MacBook screen. I full screen all applications and switch between them using control and the arrow key. So my external monitor has email, IDE, and misc stuff. Screen has browser, terminal, chat application. Pressing control + up allows you to easily reorder and move elements. It's helpful to turn off the default option of automatically sorting your screens

Ah, interesting. I think we've arrived at a very similar setup, albeit implemented in different ways. I too use a MacBook and external monitor, and fullscreen my apps, but I just let them take up the whole screen minus the bar at the top, rather than explicitly use the fullscreen new workspace feature. I then swap between apps by binding all my most common apps to F1-F6 using Thor, which I find is easier to navigate…

I use full screen apps on my Mac and switch between them using ALT-Tab. But there is a bug whereby you don’t always get the window of the app showing if you ALT-Tab too quickly, even though it is selected. I might try something like your setup, or the one above instead.
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