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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by MiddleEndian »

Ditto - Clipboard manager for Windows. The nicest I've used on any OS. Great for managing the last N items (set to remove items after a week for me) and it's easy to delete or modify entries.

Klipper - Clipboard manager for Linux. It's part of KDE so I'm not sure if it counts but it doesn't seem to be well known. Basically the same as Ditto for Linux but a bit clunkier.

7+ Taskbar Tweaker - Tool that modifies the Windows taskbar. My favorite two features: 1. Hiding the Windows logo/start button so Win+1 correlates with the first icon, Win+2 with the second, etc. 2. Making it such that if I click an application icon with multiple windows, the first window will just come to the front (and the second if the first is already at the front, etc.) instead of having to click from a list of windows.

SharpKeys - Windows tool to remap keyboard keys. Equivalent to using the Registry but more pleasant.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by scarcely »

numbers wrote: post #4

- Alfred https://www.alfredapp.com/ - BetterTouchTool https://folivora.ai/ - Sip https://sipapp.io (even tho the new pricing isn't great) - Spectacle https://www.spectacleapp.com/ (if you want a Magnet alternative) - Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/ (not sure if this counts)

Re: sip, why not just use a custom HTML file. I store vast majority of my data in custom HTML files custom written with custom js and CSS and custom elements. Level of customizability is extremely high and you can represent the data with infinite flexibility and you can display your data via an infinite number of views and it's just a matter of switching stylesheets. All hail the age of custom written HTML pages intended for personal use! Hooray for the practice of keeping your data in HTML! Boo markdown which is tremendously tremendously overrated. The age of writing HTML for other people is over. The age of writing HTML for your own private consumption is on us!!!

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by brokenmachine »

MiddleEndian wrote: post #11

Ditto - Clipboard manager for Windows. The nicest I've used on any OS. Great for managing the last N items (set to remove items after a week for me) and it's easy to delete or modify entries. Klipper - Clipboard manager for Linux. It's part of KDE so I'm not sure if it counts but it doesn't seem to be well known. Basically the same as Ditto for Linux but a bit clunkier. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker - Tool that modifies the Win…

With ditto, can you copy a few things into the clipboard, then paste them in order somehow?

So for example I copy my password, then my username, then you can press, say, ctrl-shift-v and it will paste your password and remove the topmost item so the next paste will be my username? Or something like that?

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

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Post by ChrisGranger »

brokenmachine wrote: post #18
MiddleEndian wrote: post #11

Ditto - Clipboard manager for Windows. The nicest I've used on any OS. Great for managing the last N items (set to remove items after a week for me) and it's easy to delete or modify entries. Klipper - Clipboard manager for Linux. It's part of KDE so I'm not sure if it counts but it doesn't seem to be well known. Basically the same as Ditto for Linux but a bit clunkier. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker - Tool that modifies the Win…

With ditto, can you copy a few things into the clipboard, then paste them in order somehow? So for example I copy my password, then my username, then you can press, say, ctrl-shift-v and it will paste your password and remove the topmost item so the next paste will be my username? Or something like that?

Is there any clipboard manager that can do this? It sounds like a good idea.

Edit: it would be easy enough to whip this up using Autokey (Linux) or AutoHotkey (Windows), but I wouldn't be too keen on having a password in plain text in a script... At least with a clipboard manager you can clear that password right after use.

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