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The Mac apps that I like

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Daniel Guo
Daniel Guo
Software Engineer

Maccy​

Maccy is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of what you copy and lets you quickly navigate, search, and use previous clipboard contents.

Project site: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy.

Features:

  • Open source and free
  • Keyboard-first
  • Lightweight and fast
  • Secure and private
  • Options to past automatically and paste without formatting
  • It can ignore applications like password managers

Hammerspoon​

It is an open source tool for powerful automation of OS X. You can write Lua scripts to control many aspects of your OS X environment.

I mainly use it to configure global shortcuts for applications (my config).

Project site: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

Vim​

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.

I use Vim whenever possible, for example: VS Code (Cursor), Sublime Text, Intellij Idea etc (my config).

Project site: https://github.com/vim/vim

Rectangle​

Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas.

If you have a big screen, this app is very helpful and easy to divide the screen into different parts. Most used shortcuts:

  • Left Half/Right Half

  • Top Half/Bottom Half

  • Top Left/Top Right

  • Bottom Left/Bottom Right

Project site: https://rectangleapp.com