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#.blogit #apps #macos #timer | A simpler version of Gestimer, if that's possible. I love the utility of these gesture-based timers, where you just pull down from your menu bar to set a quick timer. Simple, useful.

Yesterday | View Shared by ttscoff

Supercharge — Sindre Sorhus

#.blogit #macos #productivity #tweaks | Cool little Mac app that just adds some tweaks to the OS. I already have shortcuts to most of what it does, but re-creating the TotalFinder visor idea is pretty cool. Shareware.

1 week ago | View Shared by ttscoff

IndigoStack

#.blogit #apache #hosting #mac #macos #nginx #php #tools #webdev | This is really cool. Bare metal performance for local web development stacks. Run multiple stacks with https, reverse proxies, whatever tech you need --- no Docker, no VMs, full terminal integration. Really well done.

2 weeks ago | View Shared by ttscoff

kindaVim

#.blogit #app #freemium #macos #vim | Add Vim mode to any macOS text field. Works pretty well! Free trial only allows usage during a certain period of the day, kind of a clever limited trial.

1 month ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Obsidian — PopClip Extensions

#.blogit #mac #macos #obsidian #popclip | In the vein of cool Obsidian integrations, here’s one for PopClip that can save selected text to a specified file or to the Daily Note page. There’s a similar one for nvUltra in my [PopClip Extensions](https://brettterpstra.com/projects/bretts-popclip-extensions/).

4 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

jordanbaird/Ice: Powerful menu bar manager for macOS

#.blogit #app #bartender #mac #macos #menubar | There's some question about the future of Bartender after a recent acquisition (and some concerns about new telemetry). This project looks like a solid up-and-coming replacement (and free).

4 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Mimestream

#.blogit #client #email #gmail #mac #macos #software | "A native macOS email client for Gmail." This looks so good, especially considering MailPlane is dead. If only I didn't have iCloud and Exchange email accounts I need to deal with, too.

7 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

N₁₀ - Attention Management App for Mac

#.blogit #apps #macos #productivity | A simple, elegant Mac app that allows you to set an intention, define how much time you plan to put into it, and then just sit, quietly reminding you of what you want to be working on with subtle but all-encompassing animations. Perfect for those of us who say "OK, now I'm really going to work on this" and then find ourselves doing something entirely different within five minutes H/T [Jason Rhemus](https://pnw.zone/@jason) and props to props to developer [Sam Stephenson](https://mastodon.social/@sstephenson).

7 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

freedmand/textra: A command-line application to convert images, PDFs, and audio files to text using Apple's APIs

#.blogit #macos #ocr #terminal | macOS 13+ only, a simple command line interface to the OS's built-in OCR tools. Works really well.

7 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Prefs Editor

#.blogit #gui #macos #preferences | From the same developer who makes Find Any File, a very handy tool for directly editing any Mac app's preferences. Especially great for apps that have "esoteric" or hidden preferences that require using `defaults` commands in Terminal.

8 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Eternal Storms Software - ScreenFloat. Power up your Screenshots

#.blogit #app #macos #screenshot | Matthias Gansrigler has released v2 of ScreenFloat, one of my favorite apps years ago. A lot of its functionality was replaced by CleanShot X for me, but the shots browser, tagging, and smart folders set it apart. The basic idea is you can float a screenshot above all other windows and it follows you between spaces, but v2 goes a lot further. Check it out.

9 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

TipBITS: Always Show Window Proxy Icons

#.blogit #finder #macos #proxyicons | Back in 2020 I published a tip to make the now-hidden proxy icons in macOS show up instantly on rollover, but it turns out that since then Apple has added a preference to just show them all the time. Thanks to Pim for pointing this out.

9 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

davidbalbert/KeyBinding-Inspector

#.blogit #keybindings #macos | An app to survey your macOS text system keybindings. I've been writing a lot about editing the `DefaultKeyBinding.dict` file, and this app makes it easy to peruse what key combinations are doing what. The biggest shortfall is that it doesn't handle nested bindings (multi-keystroke), but it does successfully ignore those and show you everything else.

10 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Finalist

#.blogit #ios #macos #productivity #todo | You probably know I'm an OmniFocus guy, but I'm always trying the latest and greatest in todo apps. This one bills itself as "a todo app for people who hate todo apps," and it looks pretty great for exactly those people. "Works just like Notes, with smarts of a calendar"

10 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

CleanCocoa/OpenAny: macOS app and file launching springboard

#.blogit #app #macos #urlhandler #urlscheme | Create a link to open any file directly in any app. Some interesting automation possibilities. From the developer behind TableFlip.

10 months ago | View Shared by ttscoff

BatchPhoto 5

#.blogit #app #macos #photo | Batch photo processing app BatchPhoto just released version 5, updated for modern platforms and OSs, and adding SFTP upload and hot folders.

1 year ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Xnapper – Snap beautiful screenshots instantly

#.blogit #macos #screencapture #screenshot #utility | I'm still a die-hard [CleanShot](https://cleanshot.com/) fan, but this little tool makes some gorgeous screenshots ready for social sharing, with tools for auto-balancing, changing backgrounds, and redacting email addresses and other text. Simple and beautiful.

1 year ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Default Folder X 6.0: A tour of what’s new

#.blogit #defaultfolderx #filemanagement #macos #save | Love the Quick Search idea. Beta is available for download if you're a registered DFX user.

1 year ago | View Shared by ttscoff

swiftGPT.app - The native macOS app for ChatGPT

#.blogit #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #macos | I've tried a few of these, and this one is my favorite for a native chat-like experience for ChatGPT on macOS. Includes cost tracking and chat history.

1 year ago | View Shared by ttscoff

FelixKratz/SketchyBar

#.blogit #mac #macos #menubar #utility | A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement. I think I probably found this via OneThingWell, but I lost track...

1 year ago | View Shared by ttscoff

MacMenuBar.com | A curated directory of 700+ Mac menu bar apps

#.blogit #app #apps #collection #mac #macos #menubar #software | A curated directory of 700+ Mac menu bar apps. Small apps to help you become more productive and maximize your workflow with MacOS. (Just in case your menu bar had some room left in it)

2 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

neovide/neovide: No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

#.blogit #gui #macos #neovim #terminal #vim | > This is a simple graphical user interface for Neovim (an aggressively refactored and updated Vim editor). Where possible there are some graphical improvements, but functionally it should act like the terminal UI. Adds some nice animations, blurred floating windows, and remote TCP support.

2 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

ttscoff/hook_goodies

#.blogit #applescript #hook #macos #productivity #scripting #scripts | I've started a collection of scripts for Hook. It's small right now, but should grow in the future. Worth a bookmark or a star if you're a Hook user.

2 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Acquiring A Product: Our Kaleidoscope Journey

#.blogit #diff #macos | I'm super excited about the future of what I consider to be the hands-down best Mac diff tool. Newly under the stewardship of some excellent indie mac devs, version 3 is a massive improvement that represents a ton of hard work. Here's some background on their acquisition of this great app, and a bit of its storied history.