uses
macOS
Barbee — After the odd acquisition of Bartender, Barbee has become my favourite Mac menu bar utility.
Jottacloud — Backup & cloud storage based in Norway
Karabiner Elements — MacBook NO kb layout for someone who mostly writes English is a no-go. Karabiner to the rescue.
Obsidian — My blog starts in Obsidian, my memory lives there
PopClip — One of the apps I use constantly. Multi tool for text.
Shottr — Fantastic screenshot tool. Hooked it up to a modified Hyperkey and use it All. The. Time to OCR bits of text or screenshot images.
Supercharge — A lovely little multi-tool of an app.
Typinator— I sometimes think Keyboard Maestro could just do the text expansion for me, then I discover something that keeps me coming back.
Bitwarden — Password manager. 1Password was a stalwart for years, but it gradually got worse and became quite annoying at times. Then they hiked the subscription and mentioned AI, so we jumped ship. Self-hosted vaultwarden for now, if we don’t like it we’ll fall back to managed Bitwarden (.eu natch). I moved my mom over to Bitwarden.eu, and she has taken to it like a duck to water.
Calibre — Repository of the bulk of my library. While I do still have some physical books, due to many moves I mostly have ebooks now. I have both v 7.16 & v 8.15 installed due to a few books throwing errors in the newer versions.
Clop — Optimises images, videos, PDFs. Very handy.
Hazel — Keeps my Mac tidy.
HEIC Converter — Another Sindre Sorhus app.
Keyboard Maestro — Amazing automation software.
LanguageTool —This helps me get close to the correct amount of commas. Self-hosted. No AI. And I don’t take its style advice. (For better or worse.)
MacWhisper Pro — Been really great for adding subtitles. I started with the free version.
NetNewsWire — My feed reader. When Google Reader was shut down 😭, I bought a lifetime Feedly account, but haven’t used it since switching to NetNewsWire in 2024.
Safari Browser Extensions
Custom Video Speed for YouTube — When I do watch video, it’s usually too slow for me. This fixes that, right quick.
Streetpass — Helps me find people who interest me on Mastodon.
Wipr 2 — A fantastic ad blocker.