Once you get use to it, you won't be able to imagine your life without Dash. It will save you a bit of time every day. Many times.
As a bonus you can use the "snippets" feature as a generic text-expander. That saves me tons of time when writing emails, too.
p.s. aText is not exactly a direct competitor; however, I replaced it through the snippets feature of Dash.
Lobsters might be a bit more popular than Dash for macOS. We know about 120 links to it since March 2021 and only 85 links to Dash for macOS. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
This is awesome!! I use something similar on MacOS but it's a native app with offline support. The offline support is a neat feature but honestly these days if the internet is down I just don't do any development work... - https://kapeli.com/dash. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Not a complete answer, but I hope Markdown is or becomes the standard for offline docs and text for local/offline consumption. I only ever write in markdown anyway (usually with http://obsidian.md). The closest thing I know of for a service like RSS to download documents is [Dash for macOS - API Documentation Browser, Snippet Manager - Kapeli](https://kapeli.com/dash). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
There are so many great sources of information out there and tools to improve the developer experience of documentation. Dash can make some of these online resources local for instant search and access on-the-go, if you prefer. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago
Https://kapeli.com/dash Somewhat similar tool to Autokey for MacOS that I use as a text expander. Allows for great customization - appending ; to a phrase ensures you don't accidentally expand a keystroke into a phrase/URL/etc ";url" expands into "whatever string you configure". - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
This reminded me that I needed to settle on a good system-wide Snippets manager for MacOS. Having waded through the morass of buggy and subscription-only services many times in the past, I thought to give the open-source Espanso another go, but its last commit was many months ago and I simply could not get it to recognise Ventura permissions. It was then that I remembered that the excellent Dash... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
Https://lobste.rs/ is an alternative that's more focused on tech news. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Oh also, https://lobste.rs and filter by the `distributed` tag. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
"I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all" Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Reason: Ignored mod warning to stop self-promo for a while. Respectively: https://lobste.rs/domains/rednafi.com https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
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