Timing is automatically tracking me right now as I write this, categorizing my time and reminding me exactly what I was working on. I would probably spend a lot of time feeling the way I feel when I watch other people working without 1Password. I shudder to think what my day would be like without 1Password.
Granted, it does run in my Dock when I make a search, but most of the time it’s sitting quietly in my menu bar, ready to leap into action. With all of my saved templates and menubar access, it’s as convenient as Spotlight and more powerful. Since discovering it, I’ve always resorted to HoudahSpot when Spotlight failed me, but in more recent history I’ve been turning to it first. I can search for a contact and take an action on them (call, email, text…) with just a few keystrokes. My entire schedule in my menu bar, with a hotkey, and natural language event entry.Ĭardhop immediately won a spot in my heart right next to Fantastical, both by Flexibits. I can’t remember the last time I opened the native Calendar app. I’ve shared most of the extensions I’ve created. I miss it any time I make a selection and it doesn’t appear. But using it made me realize I touch my trackpad more than I think, and PopClip immediately fit into my everyday workflow. I didn’t think I’d use it because I’m very keyboard-centric on my Mac. Still, my favorite trick is a snippet I wrote that generates and sends Marked crossgrade licenses to customers.Īt first I thought PopClip was weird. I’ve used TextExpander seven time since starting to write this post. I see DFX every time I open or save a file in any app, so I do tend to forget it’s there, elegantly making folder navigation a breeze. Related props go to Yoink, which I’ve been using more often than Dropzone’s Drop Bar for collecting files to act on. I’ve written my fair share of custom Destinations for it, but also use the heck out of its built in ones. Then I drag it to…įor everything from moving files to my most common folders to uploading directly to my S3 buckets and getting a URL in my clipboard, I use Dropzone so often I take it for granted. My two most-used Hazel tricks are my TagFiler system and a trick I use where I can save an image file to my Desktop with an filename like and it will resize it to 1600px, create a 1x version at 800, and optimize the results. This is probably the easiest one to forget about, yet one of the most useful. When Alfred came out with their action editor they were a step ahead, but I always come back to LaunchBar, especially now that it has an Action Editor of its own. I’ve been falling in love with LaunchBar all over again lately. You know that thing where you sit down at someone else’s machine and instinctively use a gesture or a keyboard shortcut only to have it not work? You should see other people trying to use my machine. I have custom trackpad gestures for everything. None of them run in my Dock - most of them are in the menu bar, some are completely background tasks on my machine where it’s easy to forget that they’re an integral part of my workflow. The half-year point seems reasonable to let one out.Įvery time I realize how much an app affects my workflow I want to hug it, so this is my big thank you to 20 apps on my system right now that make my life better every day.
I usually save up my Top Apps posts for the end of the year, but I have such a soft spot in my heart for macOS utilities that I actually mentally create these lists frequently.
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