I use Alfred a lot to find files, launch programs, jump into subreddits, DEV tags, and perform custom searches on dev.to, Thesaurus.com, Dictionary.com, EtymOnline.com, and many others.
I'm a religious user of cmd+tab and cmd+backtick to switch windows... I haven't clicked the dock in ages.
I use CloudApp to clipboard screenshots and screen recordings.
The most common keyboard shortcut that I feel like not enough people know about is cmd + L in browser to jump to the address bar. I find myself using that many times a day for keyboard-less navigation.
I'm a fan of Open Source and have a growing interest in serverless and edge computing. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but they're doing good work eating bugs. I also stream on Twitch.
Yeah, I made the dock as tiny as possible and set it to auto-hide. You can't actually remove it, so I modified the amount of time before the dock shows itself , e.g. defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 60, where int is a value in seconds.
I actually realized I do have two use-cases for using the dock:
1) Opening a file that's saved to my Desktop / Downloads folder (both of which have "Folder" icons in my dock)
2) Related — dragging a screenshot file from my Desktop icon onto the Photoshop icon to open that file.
In both cases, that seems like the more ergonomic solution than cmd+tabbing to Finder and grabbing the file, or opening up Photoshop and then finding the file.
It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
I use Alfred a lot to find files, launch programs, jump into subreddits, DEV tags, and perform custom searches on dev.to, Thesaurus.com, Dictionary.com, EtymOnline.com, and many others.
I'm a religious user of
cmd+tabandcmd+backtickto switch windows... I haven't clicked the dock in ages.I use CloudApp to clipboard screenshots and screen recordings.
The most common keyboard shortcut that I feel like not enough people know about is
cmd + Lin browser to jump to the address bar. I find myself using that many times a day for keyboard-less navigation.Yeah, I made the dock as tiny as possible and set it to auto-hide. You can't actually remove it, so I modified the amount of time before the dock shows itself , e.g.
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 60, where int is a value in seconds.I actually realized I do have two use-cases for using the dock:
1) Opening a file that's saved to my Desktop / Downloads folder (both of which have "Folder" icons in my dock)
2) Related — dragging a screenshot file from my Desktop icon onto the Photoshop icon to open that file.
In both cases, that seems like the more ergonomic solution than
cmd+tabbingto Finder and grabbing the file, or opening up Photoshop and then finding the file.Not strictly OSX but if you want to maximize keyboard usage I can't recommend surfingkeys enough.
Oh wow. I used Vimium a while back but stopped for some reason. I'll give this a try. Thank you for the rec.
Welcome! I forgot to mention my additional configuration is here although it's mostly skinning.