Apps
- Task of the day
- Weather
- Appointments
- What I learned
- What I did
- What I am grateful for
- Notes created today
- Notes modified today
- Tasks completed today
- Obsidian - an extensible note taking app
- Clean Shot X - the best screen shot utility
- Raycast - an app launcher that handles much more
- Keyboard Maestro - the ultimate Mac automation tool
- Microsoft Edge - my choice for web browsing for reasons
- PopClip - a text selection utility
- TextExpander - a snippets app
- Drafts - a text automation app
- Day One - the preeminent journaling app for macOS
- Default Folder X - an enhancement for open and save dialog boxes
- Hazel - a Mac automation tool for file management
- DropZone 4- a file shelf utility
- Toyviewer - a Preview replacement for images with editing capabilities
- PathFinder - a replacement for Finder (although I might opt for Qspace)
- ScrapPaper - a menu bar utility for floating notes
- BarTender - I didn’t buy into the hysteria, I just set up some Little Snitch rules
- Better Touch Tool - multi-purpose automation app
- Find Any File - a search utility
- Things 3- a task manager
- Outlook - for better or worse, it’s the email app I use to get work done (note to self: do better)
- Just download and turn on both plugins
- Create a note within the folder with the exact name of the folder
- Add the following text to the that note %%Waypoint%%
- For any subfolders, add a note within the subfolder with the same name as the subfolder.
- Add the following text to that note %%Landmark%%
Keyboard Maestro Macro to Copy #Obsidian Daily Note to Day One
I use my Obsidian Daily Note to capture all kinds of data:
I use a Keyboard Maestro macro to copy the note over at the end of the day to Day One, since I’ve been keeping a Day One journal for 10 years and have 18K entries. The one drawback is the data from Dataview queries does not copy over.
Today on AppAddict - In Windows, when you hover over an app on the taskbar, the operating system shows you the open windows for that app, a useful feature missing in macOS until now with the introduction of the free menu bar app DockDoor.
Today on AppAddict - I was reviewing the free and open-source app, Later, designed to save and reopen workspaces when I got a weird warning from Little Snitch and unexplained requests to access different areas of my Mac. Further examination revealed that the app wasn’t notarized. Not recommended!
Today on AppAddict - Updater apps for Mac - I cover MacUpdater, Latest, CleanMyMac X, Topgrade, Raycast extensions and Applite.
Today on AppAddict - Coherence and Unite are two apps based on Chromium and WebKit respectively, that improve built-in site-specific browser (SSB) functionality, offering extra tools like ad blocking, incognito mode and extension support.
Today on App Addict - Explore Little Tagger, a budget-friendly alternative to Hazel for automating basic tagging tasks on your Mac. Learn about its features, pros, and cons, and consider joining the beta for the developer’s upcoming, more advanced tagging app.
Today on AppAddict - Cryptomator, a free and open-source encryption tool designed to be used with cloud utilities like Google Drive, Dropbox and One Drive, it provides end to end 256-bit AES encryption. There are also versions for Windows and Linux and a paid version ($12.99) for iOS.
if I Could Only Install 20 Mac Applications
I’m rather proud of having more than 400 apps installed on my Mac. According to Lingon X, I have 102 apps either as login items or running in the background as helper apps. I have a hobby blog, AppAddict where I write an app review every day, always something I have downloaded, installed and used on my personal Mac. I love my Setapp subscription because it gives me an evergrowing library of high quality apps to try out for the same monthly price. But if all this goodness evaporated suddenly and i was forced to run vanilla Mac OS plus twenty apps to get my work done, which out of all the ones that own would I choose? Answering this requires some tough choices. may of these apps I have been using for more than a decade, although a few have been adopted in the past year.
Today on AppAddict - A look at text expansion choices for power users - ranging from the native macOS tool to Keyboard Maestro, Raycast/Alfred, Better Touch Tool and single purpose apps like my choice, Text Expander and Expanso.
Today on AppAddict - Step 2 Offers Two Factor Authentication in a Desktop App With parts of Authy deprecated and others hit by security breaches, you might be looking for a new solution.
Today on AppAddict - an old mac troubleshooting tool is back and I am feeling nostalgic. [Network Utility is available for download from Devonthink](apps.louplummer.lol/post/netw… totally free. It was part of the OS from the very first days of OS X up until Big Sur.
Today on App Addict - Disk Drill by Cleverfiles is data recovery software that comes with six free utilities including disk health monitor, Mac cleanup, duplicate finder, recovery drive, data protection and data backup.
Today marks 100 consecutive days that I have posted a review on AppAddict, a little website that I started on a whim to be able to talk to other people who have a download addiction. It’s done pretty good, been quoted in Lifehacker and the Verge and some developers have been quite nice. I❤️IndyWeb!
Today on AppAddict - [GoodLinks])(https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/goodlinks) is a dual-purpose app with a lot going for it. It’s both a bookmark manager and a read-it-later app. It’s a one-time $9.99 purchase in the App Store.
Today on AppAddict - Mac Uninstallers - App Cleaner vs. Pear Cleaner one is more bare bones but thorough. The other has more features but occasionally misses a few files.
Today on AppAddict - An Unemotional Look at Clean My Mac X - I look at the controversial app without hyperbole or bias and point out its strong and weak points.
Today on AppAddict - Downie - Video Downloader - Downie can download from more than 1000 sites with more being added on a bi-weekly basis. It can download 4K video and audio-only streams.
Today on AppAddict - Clop - Copy Big, Paste Small, Send Fast - a utility that automatically resizes files simply by copying and pasting. Works on images, video and PDFs. Clop can also downscale images from 90% t0 10% of the original size.
Today on App Addict - Day One is popular for a reason. I have five journals with 18K entries made over the past 10 years, many of them automated records from social media, weather reports, clipped news articles, RSS feeds of my blogs as well as pictures and video.
How to Create Maps of Content (MOC) in #Obsidian
Maps of Content, or MOCs in Obsidian lingo are just notes that built around a collection of links to other notes with some sort of commonality. You can make them manually be just creating links by hand when you want to add a note to a collection. You can also create them automatically using a few plugins.
Folder Based
If you keep your notes in folders, you can use two plugins, Folder Note and Waypoint to create a MOC of all the notes in that folder and its subfolders.
This will create real markdown links to the notes in the main and subfolders. Unlike MOCs generated with DataView, You can print and copy the text from Waypoint notes into other applications.
Because folders are binary, a file is either in a folder or it is not. If you want to add a note to a Waypoint based MOC, nothing is stopping you from manually creating the note. You can even combine a Waypoint note with the second type of note, the DataView MOC.
Tag Based
If you note organizational structure is tag based, you can create MOCs based on a simple DataView query. First, install and enable Dataview. It doesn’t matter where in your vault that you place Dataview based MOCs. I have a folder call zz-Meta where all mine live. Use the following query to create a MOC based on a tag:
LIST
FROM #tag_name
SORT file.ctime DESC
Of course, nothing prevents you from manually adding notes to this MOC either.