Essential Mac Apps
I like the simplicity of Notion Calendar.
Raycast is a great replacement for Spotlight and has many useful extensions. I also love the AI chat window. Bind it to a Keyboard shortcut and you're good to go.
Ghostty is the hottest terminal on the block for OSX. It's fast AND pretty.
As a web developer I'm constantly sending screenshots of what I'm working on to people.
One of my most used shortcuts is CMD+SHIFT+4 and it's great!
... for the most part.
CleanShot X fixes many of the bad UX decisions the native screen shot tool has.
- Screenshots previews stay pinned to the viewport until you take action with them
- When recording screen highlight clicks, shows keystrokes, and mutes notifications
- Freeze screen while taking a screenshot
- Annotate screenshots
As a front end developer I also need to measure things on my screen. There are many browser extensions that do this but a lot of the time I need to measure something not in a browser. PixelSnap uses the mac's accessibility APIs to make everything on your screen measurable, even things running in an iOS simulator!
Another tool Macs come installed with is the Digital Color Meter.
This tool will tell you the RGB value of any pixel on your screen!
... but it doesn't tell you the hex value.
ColorSlurp gets that right and shows you the hex value, and best of all it's free!
I've come to really like working in Cursor. A balance between a full-featured IDE and AI assistance.
Fork is a great tool for managing your git repositories. It's a visual client that allows you to navigate your git repositories with ease!