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  • Brett”s Favorites 2024: Behind The Scenes

    January 2, 2025
    Blog, Code

    So I used a lot of tools and automations to put this year’s lists together. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at them. Putting lists like these together is so much easier with SearchLink and my new Setapp Affiliate link Shortcut. I can just make a list of my favorite apps with the app name surrounded by…

  • Use iTerm to handle x-man-page URLs

    January 1, 2025
    Code

    It started when I was playing with LaunchBar search templates. I tried the man page search and it opened a nice window in Terminal. But I didn’t want to open Terminal when iTerm was already running. My initial search said it wasn’t possible, but in fact it’s really easy. I found this gist, which solved…

  • Brett”s Favorites 2024: Late Additions

    January 1, 2025
    Blog, Reviews

    Happy New Year! I managed to get the bulk of the Best of 2024 series out before the midnight deadline. Nice job, Brett. But here are a few late additions that I missed, and ones I’m looking forward to using more of in 2025. DEVONthink Pro OK, this one snuck up on me. I’ve been…

  • Brett”s Favorites 2024: Personal Projects

    December 31, 2024
    Blog, Reviews

    Personal Projects: Not my busiest year on record, but I did a lot. Updated: Generate slick changelogs from Git commits I do all of my release notes using careful git commit messages. It makes life so easy. SearchLink I still consider SearchLink – out of a hundred projects – the most useful thing I’ve made,…

  • Brett”s Favorites 2024: Hardware

    December 30, 2024
    Blog, Reviews

    This collection is more than just computer hardware. It’s physical things I’ve loved this year. Anything that isn’t software. Hardware Milk Street Nakari My new favorite kitchen knife. They’re fairly affordable and I love the form factor of the Nakiri, and given I eat mostly vegetables, it’s the most useful knife in my collection. YUZU…

  • Simple Scan giveaway!

    December 30, 2024
    Blog, Giveaways

    [note] get codes and double check pricing [endnote] I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 2 licenses ($29.99 value each) for Simple Scan. The Apple Notes document scanner is great, but why clutter your notes with one-off scans? Simple Scan makes it easy to quickly scan documents to PDFs and send them wherever they need…

  • The GoodTask for iOS and Mac giveaway winners!

    December 27, 2024
    Blog, Giveaways

    The GoodTask for iOS and Mac giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Leonardo Sousa Jamin Barton Chris Stott You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but GoodTask for iOS…

  • Brett”s Favorites 2024: iOS

    December 27, 2024
    Blog, Reviews

    Like I said in my last post, I do way more on my Mac than I’ll ever do on iOS, so this will be significantly shorter. iOS is mostly for playing games, Messages, social stuff, and consuming media. But here are a few standouts. iOS apps Drafts When I wake up in the middle of…

  • Brett”s Favorites 2024: macOS

    December 26, 2024
    Blog, Reviews

    Here we go again with my yearly roundup of my favorite stuff. I’m going to do this year in a few parts. This one will be all Mac apps, and it will the longest because Mac apps are my favorite. Best new and updated macOS apps In no particular order, here are some of my…

  • Scripting when you”re away: beengone 2.0

    December 24, 2024
    Code

    I took a few hours to revive an old project. It had stopped working on modern machines, and despite its limited usefulness, it fit a need for me and I want to get an updated version out there. Sure, it took way longer to fix and deploy than it was worth, and I ended up…

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