your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

its really buggy and clearly cobbled together and not at all what spotlight is made for but i still prefer it to any of the app launchers and it just shows a bunch of ways apple should rethink spotlight, as a natural language

i use it for messaging, weather, translations, lorem ipsum, emoji... i would like to get it set up on slack for work, better calendar implementation, dictionary/thesaurus

oops didnt finish that sentence... as a natural language command line prompt

given what they're doing with search on iOS I'm pretty sure they'll get there

pfff natural language command prompt, learn zsh

dan selzer are you still using swinsian?

No. I never fully switched over to it. It was something I was using now and again when I wanted to open multiple playlist windows like you used to be able to do in iTunes, back when I was partially making a living making playlists. Now I just suffer through iTunes. I'd switch over fully but i'm too entrenched in itunes.

Fluid (as someone who had 345 tabs open earlier this year, this is exactly what i need)
Alfred (just starting with this, and linking it to trello, very good)
Hazel
Rubymine
Sublime (but am currently giving Atom a try)
Trello
Postman
Hyperdock

things i am currently trying

Codekit
Wunderlist
Atom

iStatistica has become my system monitor infographic display of choice: http://www.imagetasks.com/system-battery-network-monitor-widget/

Realizing i dont need codekit if im using gulp

Fluid seems cool, but is there a way to keep it from using Safari as its default browser?

Tried to make a Gmail app, but it's using the Safari version instead of Chrome.

I use mailplane instead of fluid or a browser:

http://mailplaneapp.com/

...they charge $25 for that?

I'm not going to pay $25 to see alerts from my work email on my work computer.

They switched us all over to gmail for work, which is fine, but you have to be in Chrome to see the alerts. If you're in, say Photoshop or InDesign, you're not going to notice any incoming mail.

I wasn't crazy about Thunderbird, but at least it had that.

25 bucks, sure. It's made my life a whole lot easier. Fluid SSBs can be buggy and frustrating. I was tired of losing my mail to various browser windows and just wanted gmail and not have to deal with imap and a different interface. Including alerts.

Is that something your work has done....I get the alerts ok (after turning on desktop notifications)

If I'm missing something, do let me know, but it seems like it's more of a "browser notification" than a "desktop notification" system.

http://i.imgur.com/DcjEgc8.png

http://i.imgur.com/Sytd2qp.jpg

I dont know, this was the only thing i changed!

What's it say when you click that "Learn more" link? That's where I got my available notifications.

I also use Spaces, so I don't know if that affects it or not.

$25 for a webview seems a bit rich

couple of gmail-friendly recommendations here http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/favorite-email-client-os-x/

or https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checker-plus-for-gmail/oeopbcgkkoapgobdbedcemjljbihmemj

airmail is pretty good

Well, I hat to skip lunch for a week to afford this useful app that I use every day all day long but in the end I don't regret a thing.

f.lux

reduces blue light from your display during evening hours to lower eye strain and facilitate sleep

Two recent discoveries.

RightFont is a new font management program that is cheap and pretty lightweight compared to the big competitors (Suitcase, FontExplorerPro) but with that ease may be just simpler to use and has one key feature the other programs lack which is the ability to sync font libraries over dropbox or other cloud service. This is a big deal for me, but not sure if I'm ready to jump ship from the bigger/more pro FontExplorerPro.

Glyphs Mini is a cheap and super-easy typeface editor/creator program with a much easier learning curve than the big boys.

apple building flux-like behaviour into the next ios http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/01/12/night-shift-in-ios-9-3/

it's like my most used hoonja doonja so i don't know why i haven't posted it here before: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

didn't know notational velocity still had an updated fork. thanks!

well, updated in the last few years, that is

there are forks of that that are more active too

i want to be the kind of person who uses nvalt

very guilty of getting into one of these programs for a week, only to go back a year later and find two or three programs with a half-dozen scrawled notes each

workplace uses onenote and that is not bad, but again, organization is lacking in myself

the thing i like about nvalt is you don't have to be organized. it's just a shoe box full of notes on scrap paper, with a search function.

i want to be the kind of person who uses nvalt

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haha yes, i have a copy of it that is full of just the weirdest garbage --- i never really used it "properly" i don't think

yeah, f.lux is a good'un.
still use xPad, holdover from the blue candy cane days. and probably will until an OS X update breaks it, but still kinda hoping something both better and simple comes out

Every once in awhile, I'll do something that resets f.lux for a sec and it's like my eyeballs are exposed to plasma.

Yeah, my brain is telling me it's working...

https://github.com/Thomas101/wmail

"A Mac app wrapper around Google Inbox and GMail. Multiple account support, unread notifications and more. Makes using Google Mailboxes feel that little more native on osx."

why not just use a full-featured native mail app?

they don't exist any more?

(i just use gmail.com fwiw)

Pocket, for saving pages and reading later

Droplr/Lightshot for screenshot/screencasts

Jottacloud for cloud

only recently switched to Iterm (oh my zsh, but not tmux)

second better touch tool from upthread. make up your own trackpad gestures, global or by program.

like for browser i do three finger swipe up to create tab, three down to close tab, three right or left to move between tabs, two left or right for back and forwards, etc.

facilitates sitting on one hand if it's cold where you compute.

Was that my recommendation? Yes, BTT is awesome. Anytime I'm on a mac without it, I basically can't function.

yeah, if i'm on someone else's computer i feel like a dunce sitting there trying to tap one finger next to the other or whatever. i've lost track of what's native and what's BTT...

I've been a big fan of all2mp3 for some time, quick and easy way to convert downloaded WAVs to mp3s, but the new version is super shady. They say to upload you download an installer. That first installer has multiple invites to get you to load yahoo and some other nonsense. Skip all of that and it loads the regular installer. OK that doesn't seem too bad. Then when installing the update a page comes up that looks like your basic license page and "I agree" on the bottom, but if you look closer it's actually you agreeing to install some kind of monitoring software. I said "disagree" and it went to the next page to just install the basic software. Really questionable tactics.

you can use itunes to convert to mp3 fwiw (without using itunes for your library)

I use itunes for my library. itunes is set to copy everything to the library, so I like to be able to make mp3s of wav files quickly before copying them into itunes. I have other tools that do this, this one is just the best.

makes sense. my workflow is to import the wav into itunes, convert to mp3 (or whatever), and then option-delete the wav file's entry in itunes (which deletes the referenced wav file too). but fission is a non-sketchy tool if you want something separate.

Max is great for mac

X Lossless Decoder will do this too: http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

I know all the tools! I have fission and max. All2mp3 is the easiest and fastest.

no tool is worth all those hoops; stick with Max or XLD