Productivity Tools
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Handbrake 🏆 Good video converter
Paste - Clipboard Manager 🏆 The best clipboard to have in macOS
If you have already previously installed this:
Rocket 🏆 Gives you that slack-like experience of entering emojis
raindrop.io 🏆 Great bookmarking app
App Cleaner 🏆 Fully uninstall apps including its preferences
Jumpshare 🏆 A quick and instant way to share files using a public link
Krisp.ai 🏆 Removes the background noise during your calls
Caffeine 🏆 Prevents screen from falling asleep / turning off with one click
Effortless 🏆 Effortless is a Mac menu bar app that helps you stay focused on one thing at a time. It allows you to create a simple plaintext to-do list
If you have already previously installed this:
Daisydisk Great for inspecting your HD on to know which files are taking up too much space
Transmission 🏆 Best torrent client out there
Numi 🏆 A beautiful calculator app for Mac.
The Unarchiver 🏆 For extracting alot of zips
VLC Player 🏆 Best media player ever
Spotify 🏆 Music while working
Reflector 3 🏆 Airplay directly from your iphone to your mac
Karabiner Elements A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS
Proton VPN 🏆 A good VPN to use
Geekbench If you're into benchmarking and comparing performance of your diff machines
Hazel Automation and housekeeping on your mac
Microsoft Office They're recently switched to a subscription-based model like Adobe
WPS Office A promising cross-platform that is like Microsoft Office but better than LibreOffice
Raycast 🏆 The best keystroke launcher out there.
Kap 🏆 A minimalist way to record videos / gifs on your screen.
Loom 🏆 Record audio/video of you and yourself and instantly share it from the cloud
Loom is great and seamless, especially for sending screen recordings + video of your self to clients. However, the free tier only offers 5 minutes.
Stats 🏆 A free macOS system monitor in your menu bar
iStat Menus A paid macOS system monitor in your menu bar
Fantastical 2 🏆 Best calendar ever, syncs to everything including Google calendars and FB events!
It's really smart when adding events - which autodetects the time, location and place!
Cron 🏆 A very promising alternative to Fantastical.
NordVPN Pricey but worth it. Speeds are fast.
MacOS can't natively write files to NTFS formatted drives (most likely your external drive). Here are some solutions:
Tuxera Disk Manager 🏆 A paid way to copy NTFS drives without much configs needed
NTFS-3G The free and open-source way to copy over NTFS with much configs needed
then:
Skype Client communication
Gitter Checkout the community
Telegram Used once for a project's main communication tool
Bitwarden 🏆 It's free and it just works!
LastPass My password manager of choice
1Password A good password manager
Airmail 5 🏆 A better email app then the default one
Edison A better email app then the default one
Spark A better email app then the default one
Bartender Customize your menu bar & hide unwanted icons.
Dozer A free menu bar manager
Dropbox The cloud for backing up
A really good contender against Notion.
Rectangle 🏆 My favorite window manager
Mainly because I'm super familiar with Spectacle before and it follows the same shortcuts such as:
cmd + option + arrow key to cycle thru 1/2 and 1/3 to the direction you want it auto-arrange
Magnet Window manager
Moom Window manager too
Amethyst 🏆 A tiling window manager. ... Also, it supports global shortcuts for moving, focusing and changing size of the windows, as well as cycling through the layouts
OpenEmu 🏆 Emulator for playing retro games on macOS
Steam 🏆 For Dota 2
Battle.net 🏆 Launcher for Diablo III and Starcraft II
Neardrop Want to "airdrop" files from your Android phone to your Macbook? Now it's possible using Google's Nearby Share protocol on your Mac.
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Screen Studio The most elegant way to do a screen recording.
Multi A very promising app that helps teams collaborate faster.
then follow the rest of the instructions here:
Slack Team communication
Zoom Great for group video calls
Discord Great for group video calls
Facebook Messenger Checkout the community
Whatsapp Used as a main communication tool in some projects as well
Grammarly Desktop Effective communication and writing is an underrated skill for designers. If English isn't your first language, this definitely helps a lot.
Vanilla A simple, fast, and freemium menu bar organizer.
Google Drive I used this to backup my whole machine.
Notion The best notebook I've ever had. It's more affordable than Evernote. Only missing is offline mode.
