App LIST!!!

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Usage for Mac

Usage (Free) Usage is a menu bar app that comes with cool customizable popover widgets and advanced features to track your system’s performance, processor, disk usage, network activity, and memory pressure among others. (I personally haven't used it but I heard it's good).

#Mac #Tech #Apple 1 social mentions

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Tyke

Tyke (Free) Not a trike but a tyke! (I'm so sorry)... A little bit of scratch paper 📝 that lives on your Mac menu bar.

#Note Taking #Productivity #Todos 5 social mentions

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Übersicht

Uebersicht (Free) Übersicht lets you run system commands and display their output on your desktop in little containers, called widgets. Widgets are written using HTML5, which means they are easy to write and customize can show data in tables, charts, graphs ... You name it can react to different screen sizes (I did make an Evangelion (If you get where that's from ❤️) system monitor for it... Yeah really cool, but the CPU usage for these massive scans is an ouch... I used it with Ariel too, noting it's still in development I was chilling at 40% usage just looking at the screen...) Well, to be fair it was a 4k video playing, and flashing monitors so.... Can't be too hard??

#Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools #Tool 36 social mentions

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SpacesforMac.xyz

Spaces (Free) Eclutter & organize your workspace on macOS in one single click 🎊.

#Mac #Productivity #Window Manager 5 social mentions

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Soulver 3 for Mac

Soulver (Paid) It's pretty expensive for a text-based calculator, but it's really good. Soulver is a notepad calculator app for Mac. It's a notepad that gives instant answers to calculations in your text. Soulver is a better way to work things out than a classic calculator and a more lightweight tool for working through problems than a spreadsheet.

#Calculators #Advanced Calculator #Productivity 34 social mentions

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Dato

Dato (Paid) Calendar events and world clocks in your menu bar.

#Calendar #Productivity #Email Clients 24 social mentions

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Shottr

Shottr (Free) One of the BEST screenshotting apps I've ever used, so much you can do in such a small package, pin screenshots, scrolling screenshots, blur/pixelate or remove objects, overlay images, measure distances, text recognition (OCR) & QR scanner, zoom into any pixel, inbuilt colour picker, and extremely fast! All for free... Seriously, use it.

#Design Tools #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots 68 social mentions

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Rectangle

Rectangle (Free) Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas, free and open-source. (With Raycast you can do the same, just download it from raycast.store and enter hotkeys and your off) Rectangle Pro is their paid app, with is tuned for pros or something like that.

#Mac Tools #Window Manager #AI 462 social mentions

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Obsidian.md

Obsidian (Free) Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files.

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1492 social mentions

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Mimestream

Mimestream (Free while in Beta) Mimestream combines the power of macOS with the enhanced capabilities of the Gmail API for a new kind of email app that's lightning-fast, instantly familiar, and full of features. (Only works for Gmail!!!).

#Email #Email Clients #Calendar 62 social mentions

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Rocket

Rocket (Free, but limited, need to pay for most of the features) Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts. Just start typing an emoji like :thumbsup: (👍) and Rocket will help auto-complete it – in any app! Plus, with Rocket Pro, you can add gifs, snippets, and symbols to your Rocket shortcuts. 🫢 -- It's how I added the emojis in the text ....

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #PHP MVC Framework 25 social mentions

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Horo

Horo (Free) I did say Raycast had a menu bar timer, I know, but Horo allows text to be directly loaded into ⏲️ time, 20 mins is a 20 min timer etc.

#Time Tracking #Online Services #Alarm Clock 3 social mentions

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rcmd

Rcmd (Paid) Small little menu bar app that allows you to switch/open an app by a defined Hotkey, The ⌘ command key on the right side of the space bar is almost never used, so we found a clever way to take advantage of it! Hold down rcmd and press the first letter of the app name to focus apps instantly. When pressing the key while the app is already focused, you can choose to hide the app or cycle to the next app with the same first letter.

#Mac #Productivity #Developer Tools 45 social mentions

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f.lux

f.lux (Free) Way better blue-light management than Night Shift.

#Work Management #Color Temperature Adjuster #Time Tracking 348 social mentions

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iTerm2

Iterm2 (Free) iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. Iterm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted. Features (yes I'm lazy).

#Terminal #Developer Tools #SSH 111 social mentions

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GrandPerspective

Grandperspective (Free) GrandPerspective is a small utility application for macOS that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so-called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary. Or just use brew install tree, tree and see a massive list without a UI, in my opinion, grandperspective may be ugly but it works.

#Disk Analyzer #Hard Disk Usage #OS & Utilities 119 social mentions

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Clapet

Clapet (Free) Clapet is a free and open-source utility that aims to improve clamshell mode on your Macbook. Clamshell mode on mac keeps your mac awake when you close the lid but it only works when a power adapter is connected. This app aims to solve this problem by allowing clamshell mode even on battery. When an external display is detected while on battery or power adapter, the application will disable sleep so you can use your computer with the lid closed, and as soon as the external display is unplugged, sleep will be enabled again to preserve the battery. (I think Lunar might have this too? I can't fully remember).

#Prototyping #Note Taking #Design Tools 2 social mentions

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Stats

Stats (Free) Stats is a free open-source macOS system monitor in your menu bar.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Mac Tools 95 social mentions

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Hidden Bar

Dozer (free - open source), HiddenBar (free), free alternatives to bartender, however, only does 1 thing and that's hiding the icons, not adding an extra menu, nothing just icons here, icons gone.

#Trademark Registration #Productivity #Legal 30 social mentions

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UpNote

Upnote (Free) Stay focused and productive with a clean and clutter-free note space. UpNote offers flexible ways to organize your notes: hashtags, nested notebooks, pinning notes to the top of the note list, adding notes to Quick Access and filtering notes using matched keywords.

#Android #iPhone #iPad 84 social mentions

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Kap

Kap (Free) That's cap (did I do it? Am I cool?)... Kap is a free open-source screen recorder built with web technology, click the menu bar icon to bring up the screen recorder. After selecting what portion of the screen you'd like to record, hit the record button to start recording. Click the menu bar icon again to stop the recording. There is also user-made plugins, really good app in my opinion.

#Screen Recording #Screenshot Annotation #Video Maker 39 social mentions

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AppCleaner

Appcleaner (Free) A must-download, AppCleaner is a small application that allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using the space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them. Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button.

#Mac #Utilities #Monitoring Tools 304 social mentions

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espanso

Https://espanso.org/ (Free) I really wanna like it... But I can't, not yet anyway. The hotkey there currently is interferences with Raycast, which is option + space and when I edit the .yml script It doesn't change the hotkey... Apart from that it's really good. Espanso detects when you type a keyword Today is :date: (6/3/2023) and replaces it while you're typing.

#Text Expander #Personal Productivity #Writing Tools 100 social mentions

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DisplayBuddy

DisplayBuddy (Paid) Very limited options, tbh I don't recommend it compared to Lunar or BetterDisplay.

#Mac #Monitor #Productivity 8 social mentions

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Contexts

Contexts (Paid) Switch between application windows effortlessly — with Fast Search, a better Command-Tab, a Sidebar or even a quick gesture. Includes fantastic features for multiple spaces & multiple displays. Probably my top pick for an app switcher, although I still prefer AltTab. 😉.

#Mac #Window Manager #Note Taking 63 social mentions

Charmstone (Paid) The quicker switcher launcher for macOS, same as Rcmd. Just another choice I guess.

#iPhone #Mac #Productivity 11 social mentions

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Homebrew

Homebrew (Free) I won't get into it, I've already mentioned everything about brew Here (If someone hasn't removed it).

#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 918 social mentions

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iStat Menus

Istatmenus (Paid - Free 16-day trial) Not open source, and it's not free but it's really well done.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Device Management 54 social mentions

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Arc

Arc (Free) I can't believe such a browser exists. Everyone on Reddit (who has a key) harped on about a browser called Arc, I only use Chrome because of the extensions, and all my features/syncs. They sent me an email 3 days ago and I got my key, and I can see why. Arc is the actual best web browser there is, it's so well done I don't know how I haven't heard about it until now. UI is awesome, one downside was I had to redo some of my settings as it didn't export from Chrome all the way, and I had to recode a few of my userscripts but apart from that .... Oh it's so good. They even had a development mode. it's crazy, side by side, so much I still have to discover. If you want an invite to feel free to ask, and I'll send one (here’s an invite to Arc - (only 5 users can use this link) https://arc.net/gift/a9e51a33) - Speed is fast too. (As of writing this I found Little Arc is a smaller, simpler Arc window. It's perfect for quick lookups and reading funny tweets your friends send you. (Option + Command + N in any app to open).

#Web Browsers #Customisable Web Browser #Security & Privacy 74 social mentions