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![]() ![]() Use Slack as your preferred IM tool? You should… and there are of course Slack extensions that make posting to Slack a breeze, with just a shortcut and some typing.Ĭost: Free, with powerpack upgrade available for purchase.Are you a software developer? Then Alfred can do wonders for you… Like this collection of developer related workflows.Do you use GitHub a lot and always been frustrated how much typing and clicking is needed to get to that particular repository you want to work with? Just install one of the many Alfred GitHub workflows, and you are a 3-4 keyboard clicks away from opening your repo.Do you want to access your past clipboard entries? No problem.No more finding that particular app in the background, switching to it and then start using it. Most of the features are about keeping your hands on your keyboard, and making lots of smart shortcuts and other features available to you through the keyboard. So what exactly is Alfred? Best description I can think of is a swiss army knife of automation. But it’s way less than I expected, investing half an hour understanding how to use Alfred workflows (a workflow is an extension that brings new features to Alfred) and some of the other key features is recouped within a couple of days, in the form of increased productivity. To be fair, there is a bit of a learning threshold to get started with Alfred. It has always seemed very powerful, but the effort to learn it has just been felt to be too high. Command line goodnessĪlfred is one of those apps that have been around for quite some time, but I have never really taken the time to learn it. It handles windows nicely, emulates different terminals, has long (even unlimited, or at least so they claim). iTerm2 is on the other hand everything i ever wanted in a terminal app. The built-in Terminal app in OS X is ok, but really nothing to call home about. Nice.Įvernote is highly recommended, and once again – if you want to try it out, feel free to use this link to sign up. Storing an interesting blog post from Feedly into Evernote is just a mouse click away – or a tap on the screen using Feedly on my iPhone. Saves quite a bit of memory and wireless bandwidth on mobile phones and tablets.Īs icing on the cake, it also integrates with my favorite RSS reader Feedly. It does handle things in a nice way on mobile devices though, there it just downloads the headings and not the entire note (which can be quite big, if it is a big image for example). ![]() There are very nice plugins for most web browsers, making it easy to download and store a copy of a web page for later reference.Īll notes are synced across all devices where you have Evernote installed. To be honest I mainly use it for text and images though. Thanks! Neverending notes: Evernote Evernote note taking and syncingĮvernote is a super powerful note taking software, that not only makes it easy to store meeting notes typed using the keyboard, it handles images, voice memos and most media types. It’s a referral link, but works like any signup for you, and earns me some credits with them. If you want to try out Skitch or Evernote, feel free to use this link to sign up. Paid version will make you a Premium user of both Skitch and Evernote, I believe (it’s been a while since I signed up for Premium). Security is good too, Evernote implements 2-factor authentication using Google’s Authenticator app (or compatible app).Ĭost: Free, with upgrade options. If there is text in the screenshot, it is usually (I guess there are limits to what can be done) detected as text and made searchable using the normal cmd-space in OS X. Being a paying Evernote customer, suddenly all my screenshots from all history shows up in an Evernote workbook. ![]() Things got even better when Evernote acquired Skitch, and integrated the two services. I am sure there is an Android client too). Even better, they are synced across all your devices (OS X, Windows and IOS for sure. It keeps track of all your screenshots, even the ones from from last month. Until Skitch came along every screen shot except the last one was effectively lost. Documenting the configuration of some server before making changes to it (thus having a way back in case the changes don’t work out), or sending an annotated screenshot to a colleague, explaining how something works or should be done. I take at least 10 screenshots on an average day. In this first of several posts we’ll look at these tools: So let’s see how we can make a good OS X system truly awesome. And as much as I like the way OS X has developed over the years (including the fact that it’s free once you have bought a Mac!), even the sun has spots. Being fairly multilingual – I use Macs, Windows and Linux boxes daily – OS X has during the last 4-5 years been the main platform for daily work. ![]()
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