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Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

by mofle on 10/30/24, 5:39 PM with 20 comments

• by ericol on 10/30/24, 6:07 PM

  Just the Command+X feature for cutting files is worth its weight in gold. Or Bitcoin.

• by jedberg on 10/30/24, 6:04 PM

  Anyone remember PowerToys for Windows 95? This remind me of that. Advanced features that were there that just needed to be exposed.

  Of course in this case it's not from Apple itself, but still a great idea!

• by nunez on 10/31/24, 12:23 AM

  Sindre is also the author of Actions, which is basically this but fo iOS Shortcuts. Dude lives entirely off of open source, afaik. Massive respect.

• by derekjobst on 10/30/24, 6:08 PM

  Wow, this guy has a ton of other menu bar apps. So many features I have thought about but never bothered to build/find. Awesome!

• by a1j9o94 on 10/30/24, 6:04 PM

  I'll have to give this a shot. I switched from a windows machine to a Mac for a better dev experience on my personal projects, but I miss a lot of the windows file explorer shortcuts

• by viraptor on 10/30/24, 6:06 PM

  > Unminimizes an app’s windows when activated

  Does it mean I can bring back 1password with 1 click instead of 3? (If I forget MacOS is stupid and minimise it) That would be amazing!

• by juancn on 10/30/24, 6:24 PM

  If you're comfy with a bit of code and there's a nagging thing you wish you could change on your Mac, Hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) is a great tool.

  For example, I use it to add a shortcut that completely hides or shows Zoom's on screen controls while sreen-sharing, but in a way they don't pop up again if you press ESC (I'm a developer, so ESC is kinda a necessary key).

  This one looks polished, if the nag it's bothering you is covered.

• by OptionOfT on 10/30/24, 6:22 PM

  Macos shortcuts are ... more than weird. It's like someone said: we need shortcuts, and then took a random shortcut generator. Control + Command + Shift + 3/4 to do a selection-box screenshot.

  Which one is save to clipboard and which one is save to disk? Who knows.

  And then there is inconsistency. You're in Finder, where 'return/enter' (for some reason) invokes file rename. Cmd+O to open.

  But in a file selector window, say Numbers, 'return/enter' actually opens the file...