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I'll add one of my favorite ones: you can do Option-Command-C to copy the path of a file to the clipboard (if you need to use it somewhere that doesn't support dragging to paste a path).
Weird. No DefaultFolderX. That is an awesome tool. Also no Little Snitch. I have had problems with iStat Menu. I really want it to work, but it always introduces random crashes into my system. Every couple of years, I try it again, but it hasn’t stabilized yet.
FWIW iStat menus has been working flawlessly for me for months.
It’s just that, whenever I would have it installed, my system would have fairly frequent, random, “gray screen of death” crashes, with worthless stack traces.
The only way I figured it was iStat Menus, was I uninstalled it, and it stopped.
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Also if you hold `ctrl` down as well, the screenshot goes directly to your pasteboard for quick pasting and won't save a junk file on your desktop.
I've actually reversed these mappings since I rarely need to save a file (pretty much only if I want to annotate the screenshot). And Alfred's clipboard history is an awesome companion.
Cmd + Shift + 5 gives you a crop tool and you can choose to create a screenshot or start a video. Little options menu lets you pick between audio inputs and outputs for the video too.
Cmd + Shift + 6 takes a 'screenshot' of your touch bar!
(But let it be said that the touch bar should be deprecated. I want my Fn keys back.)
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I've actually reversed these mappings since I rarely need to save a file (pretty much only if I want to annotate the screenshot). And Alfred's clipboard history is an awesome companion.
How do you reverse those mappings for taking screenshots?
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My most used Alfred things beyond launching apps/files: * Clipboard history (screenshots on clipboard in the history is extra useful) * Snippets using the date placeholders {datetime:short} for various file naming and email workflows * Snippet shortcuts for things I always forget like the shortcut for → and ™ or my zoom meeting link that I paste into meeting invites * Launching simple shell scripts by keyword * Workf…
My man! I don't have much to add, your post mostly echoes what I do. >* Clipboard history (screenshots on clipboard in the history is extra useful) Indeed! As I mentioned elsewhere I've reversed the keyboard mappings for screenshots so that Shift+Cmd+4 copies to clipboard and Shift+Ctrl+Cmd+4 creates a file. Then I manage the images through the clipboard. >* Snippets using the date placeholders {datetime:short} for v…
> cmd+backtick is like cmd+tab but between windows of the same app. Well, I wish that were completely true, because cmd+backtick only cycles through the windows of the application, while cmd+tab lets you select the application you want. From Ubuntu (or maybe rather Ubuntu's default desktop environment?) I am used to cmd+backtick allowing me to select the window - I did find an application that does enable this behavi…
Contexts hasn't had any updates in a while, but is still far and away better than anything else I've tried. There haven't been any regressions as MacOS has updated since the last version. It's one of those "How did I manage before without this?" apps. One of my favorite features is quick switching by holding down Caps and typing some of the Application / Window name. When releasing Esc, the selected window will be fo…
My tip: System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Screen Saver -> Hot Corners -> Bottom Left Corner (or whichever you prefer) -> Put Display To Sleep (or Lock Screen if you prefer).
You can also lock the screen with control + command + Q. I always bump into the corners so I prefer a key combination.