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Productivity tools for your MacBook

Ankur Biswas on February 27, 2019

Hey guys, I'm back with another post where I'll be listing down some productivity tools for your MacBook which you may or may not know about. This ...
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Anna Su** • Edited

This list isn't complete without Magnet: itunes.apple.com/pl/app/magnet/id4...

It's crazy that Mac doesn't allow you to arrange windows properly and we need third-party tools for that.

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James Thomson

But, but, Launchpad and Mission Control and all the other useless fluff Apple adds with each new release 🙄 I wish Apple had a power user/developer user version. I mean, why can't we do simple things like duplicate tabs in Finder ffs??

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Anna Su**

Well, it has a power user version - it's called terminal :) But talking of "fluff" - is anyone here using those icon stacks or other groundbreaking features from the latest release?

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Will Taylor

Dark mode is the ultimate power use feature and I'm only kind of kidding

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James Thomson

Haha. Yes, Terminal (iTerm2, which really should be on this list come to think of it) is a must. No, never use stacks or dark mode - I'd maybe use this if it actually made everything dark. Don't see the point when it doesn't make everything dark (Chrome, Slack, etc.). I do use Spaces though - 1 space for Sublime (swipe right), 1 for Trello (swipe left), 1 for Chrome and everything else (default, middle space)

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Anna Su**

iTerm2 looks nice, thanks for the tip!

Spaces seem useful, but I somehow can't get used to them. I wish they had separate desktops and dockers.

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Fabio Russo

Magnet is very cool... luckily it’s less than 2€...

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Ankur Biswas

Yeah, you're right 😁

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Josef Aidt

Don't forget Spectacle!

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Ankur Biswas

Oh yes! You're right.

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Jefry Pozo

I recommend SlowQuitApps: github.com/dteoh/SlowQuitApps it shows a loading bar when you hit Command + Q, giving you time to think if you really want to close the app.

Another mention goes to Marta marta.yanex.org/, an alternative to Finder or TotalCommander.
For the command line I'd recommend mac-cli or m-cli for doing tasks with the console like restarting, locking, changing volume and so on.

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Justin Schoen

thank you for mos! I use a separate mouse when working and I've missed the smooth scrolling that the Apple track pad provides.

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Ankur Biswas

Glad you liked it

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Olivier Chauvin

Loved the list! Haven't seen many of these software before but I'll definitely give them a try.
Not much of a fan of Trello though. It's a bit pricey when it comes to using all of their features, which seems to be a bit much. Currently using a free software called Quire, which is basically the free version of Trello. Highly recommend if you're on a budget and looking for a good task management software.

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Royce Cayden

Great list! Trello is my personal favourite. Would also recommend start.me as a starting point for your browser(s). It helps organise bookmarks, notes, feeds etc and saves me a ton of time.

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Grégoire Willmann

Great list thanks

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Ankur Biswas

Glad you liked it

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Julia Moskaliuk

I'd like to add TMetric to this list, it's worthy tool - tmetric.com/
App for those who is in search of time tracker, task and project management tool.

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Iris Shelley

Another tool you can try is kanbantool.com/. It's a task management tool that's available for Macs.