any software/tool/trick that you believe everyone needs to use?

Posted by Lucas
Jun 14, 2018 at 04:17 PM

On Mac:

I agree that Keyboard Maestro is indispensable.

By far the most helpful and valuable software that I use is Tinderbox, which I would recommend to any Mac user who isn’t averse to a bit of tinkering.

(I also continue to rely on The Hit List, not so much for tasks, but for quickly recording bits of tagged information. It’s implementation of keyboard-centric manipulation of tags and folders is without equal, although searching my large database is quite slow.)

But perhaps more to the point in terms of the question being posed, the most essential 3rd-party utilities for me on Mac are:

—Something to enable true (Windows-like) maximization of windows. (I have BetterTouchTool configured for this purpose, but there are many other options.)

—An app launcher that adapts to my work-flow (I’m currently using the free version of Alfred).

—A browser chooser (I currently use Browser ChooserX, although I’m nostalgic for MultiBrowser).

—A clipboard history manager (I use CopyLess Lite).

—AppBeBack (to see a list of most recently closed apps—useful when I accidentally close the wrong window with the pointer and am not sure which window I closed).

—Easy Screen OCR (for extracting text from images).

—Typeeto (used only occasionally—for typing quickly on iPhone from Mac).