Igor's OSX Tools

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I pretty much use mac exclusively. I have 3 at work, and a mac mini at home, and I’m an automation nerd so I try to have everything auto install/syncronize across the machines. On the mac, I’m either in chrome/edge, Cursor (the new VS.code), the terminal (I use iterm), capcut (video editor), zoom, or the few super handy utilities I list below.

Apps

Alfred - The everything launcher/doer!

I LOVE Alfred. I can do all sorts of stuff

  • Snippets - Helpful snippets
  • Clipboard - Browse clipboard history
    • Often I copy multiple things and paste them back in order later

3rd Party Plugins:

  • Emoji Snippets ; to get emoji ; emoji to look for
  • GitFred -
    • gmy (search my repos)
  • ChatGPT
  • System Settings
  • Screen Shots
    • clipls - View Clipboard Images
  • Window Manager
  • Thumbnail navigation (use fnav)

2nd Party - E.g., Igor wrote it.

My CLI for Yabai/and other apps and generate Alfred commands

My personal plugin:

  • “idv” Search my blog
  • ss - Capture Screen Shot
  • A bunch of cool stuff for Yabai + random y.py

Productivity

  • Omnifocus - Task Manager
  • Flow - A Pomodoro Timer
    • Write back sessions to calendar
    • Name sessions
    • Nice UX
  • The terminal
    • I do crazy stuff in there.
    • Nerd Fonts

Quality of life utility

  • Hand Mirror - Preview Your Camera
  • Ice Manage the menu bar
    • (The new Bartender)
  • Alt Tab - Windows-like alt tab
  • Yabai - Tiling Window Manager
    • Aerospace - Different window manager - seems more powerful, but not stable yet.
    • Borders - Highlight current selected window
  • Menubar - Show next meeting in the menu bar
  • mpv+iina - Video Players
  • 1password - Awesome Password Manager
  • Karabiner Elements - Make my keyboard perfect
    • Even does crazy stuff like let me use 2 keyboards at once, chording across keyboards!#$!
  • Screencasting specific

Philisophy

Do not switch back and forth between windows and osx.

I used to try to use windows and mac, and move between them. Super hard on my brain. I highly recommend against. Give up windows, and go all mac. And you’ll feel a lot better for it.

When you go all in on the appleverse, it’s glorious

iPhone/watch/iMessage/iPad, it all just works, syncs perfectly. it’s a dream come true.