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- Side note: Curio 8 is on sale
I haven’t gotten my Curio brainstorming article together yet, but I did want to mention that there’s a sale on it right now until August ...
- The Curio giveaway winners!
The Curio giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you ...
- Curio giveaway!
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 2 Pro license ($99 value each) for Curio. That’s right, another chance at Curio, just in time for ...
- The Curio giveaway winner!
The Curio giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! You should have received an email with details, please let me know if ...
- Curio giveaway!
🎄 Merry Christmas! I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a Pro license ($119 value) for Curio. Curio is the perfect app for managing your ...
- Curio 25 with Smart Collections [Sponsor]
Thanks to Curio for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! What if your digital notebook allowed you to create at-a-glance dashboards and checklists using queries to pull ...
- Get more done: check out Curio 14 today [Sponsor]
Thanks to Curio for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been a fan of Curio for years — for everything from research and brainstorming to full ...
- Zengobi's new Curio 13 release
As you probably know, I’m a long-time fan of Curio for brainstorming and project management. It’s an honor to have Zengobi sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! ...
- Curio 12 — a Markdown extravaganza
Curio 12 is out today with a metric ton of new features, and a few that make it an especially exciting update for me. I’ve ...
- A great deal on Curio Core, the ultimate brainstorming app
I almost missed a chance to point to the Curio Core sale, but it’s been extended for a week so there’s still time to get ...
- Curio 11. The Ultimate Project Notebook
Thanks to Zengobi, creator of Curio 11, for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’m a long-time fan of Curio, and version 11 has a lot of ...
- Curio 10 and Curiota
I consider Curio to be the most expansive brainstorming application on the market. With mind maps, lists, file links, notes, full project organization tools, and ...
- Curio 9 winners and 10% off for everyone!
I’m really excited for the winners of the Curio 9 giveaway. It’s an amazing piece of software that is not only easy to build in, ...
- Win a copy of Curio 9!
I mentioned yesterday that Curio 9 is out, and I’m really excited about the plethora of new features and enhancements. I talked with developer George ...
- Curio 9 adds all kinds of awesome
One of my favorite brainstorming applications, Curio, has just released version 9. It includes an complete revamp of the interface for Mavericks and Yosemite, along ...
- Curiouser and curiouser
Some of us always follow the rabbit. It’s not because we want to. It’s just that the rabbit… 10 a.m., somewhere in Minnesota Sit down ...
- The EagleFiler giveaway winners!
The EagleFiler giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you ...
- Health Update: Diagnoses
Last time I wrote about my health, I had an inkling of what was going on with me, and now I have some diagnoses to ...
- The Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking and a Marked Sale!
Three years ago this month, Luc Beaudoin, the creator of Hookmark, published the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. The idea was to bring together developers in ...
- Life after iThoughts
So a lot of us are wondering what to do now that Toketaware has announced the sunsetting of the iThoughts mind mapping app for Mac ...
- The Kaleidoscope giveaway winner!
The Kaleidoscope giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! You should have received an email with details, please let me know if ...
- Ruby Regexp::scan with MatchData
This post will only be of interest to people writing scripts in Ruby. Seriously, zero utility if you’re not using Ruby. Though I would be ...
- Brett's Favorites 2023
Welcome to my yearly post about stuff I’ve loved in the last year. I love doing this because it reminds me how amazing the Mac/iOS ...
- Hookmark giveaway!
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a Pro license ($69.99 value) for Hookmark. Hookmark is the ultimate tool for keeping track of all of ...
- Brett's Favorites 2022 - Mac Apps
I’m getting an early start on this list this year. This will be some of my most used apps, with a special emphasis on apps ...
- Getting started with Howzit
I’ve been using Howzit almost daily for years now. I made a bunch of upgrades to Howzit over the last month, including packaging it as ...
- He's Doing it again...
I’ve added some stuff to Doing lately. Like, a lot of stuff. To be fair, I’ve also done a lot of jobby job stuff. And ...
- Let's get crazy with BetterTouchTool and Touch Bar Simulator
I’ve recently put some1 time into making a Touch Bar "dashboard" using BetterTouchTool. I know, the first thing you thought when you read that was ...
- Web Excursions for June 29, 2021
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Setapp. Get access to hundreds of Mac and iOS apps for one low monthly subscription fee. Running ...
- Just a SearchLink fix
I noticed last week as I was working on show notes for Overtired #238 that SearchLink was returning raw search urls instead of the results ...
- Prettier comments for flags and switches
A buddy of mine is ramping up his command-line fu lately. He’s a thorough notetaker, and he’s taken to commenting his shell code immaculately. I ...
- Brett's Favorites 2020
Happy New Year’s Eve! As has been my tradition for almost a decade now (since 2011!), I’ve compiled some of my favorite apps and things ...
- Podcasting with Bunch
Continuing on with Shark Bunch Week… I’ve been talking about Bunch again lately because I’ve been setting up a new one for podcasting (which happened ...
- Following the protests on social media
I’m not going to talk much about me and my beliefs here. Suffice to say I’ve been a supporter of prison and police abolition since ...
- Web Excursions for February 12, 2020
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Setapp. Get access to hundreds of Mac and iOS apps for one low monthly subscription fee. Diagrams: ...
- All my Fish functions
I think I’ve wrapped up my conversion to Fish for the time being. I can honestly say that now that I’m past the tinkering phase, ...
- Scripting Mac display brightness
After talking about it with the panel on a recent Mac Show appearance (pretty sure this part of the conversation happened during technical difficulties), I ...
- Web Excursions for April 26, 2019
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Backblaze. Back up everything. Siri Shortcuts and Screen Time coming to the Mac While I don’t want ...
- You won't believe what Marked 2 will do to its status bar and 11 bugfixes that will clickbait SEO headline
Oh good, that headline worked as planned. I used an odd number as recommended by clickbait experts, and you clicked. The system works. No, this ...
- Stuff I've made (and actually use)
I’ve published over 100 projects over the years. In posts here, as projects, on GitHub, sometimes just zip files to Twitter. A lot of them ...
- The future of the TabLinks Safari Extension
A long time ago I wrote an extension for Safari called TabLinks. It simply generated Markdown lists of links to all the currently opened tabs.
- I wrote a review of the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard for you nerds
This is a post about keyboards. Well, about one keyboard, but we’ll probably go through a bunch to get there. It’s going to be long, ...
- Setting up a non-root Git server on Synology DiskStation
I just got my first Synology. My Drobo crashed, and it was the second one in 5 years. Keeping a 20 TB backup in the ...
- Hanging Punctuation in Keynote on Mac
I ran into a problem editing a slide in Keynote with a large blockquote. It was left-aligned, which I’m great with, but the quote started ...
- 60 Mac Tips: Volume 2
A few years ago, back when the Macworld conference was still a thing, I did a presentation with David Sparks and Merlin Mann. We delivered ...
- Zengobi’s End of Summer and Back to School Sale!
Thanks to Zengobi for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! To celebrate the end of summer and to reward the many students and professors heading back to ...
- Web Excursions for August 21, 2017
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Backblaze. Back up everything. Sketch for Designrs Not a huge repository, yet, but another resource site to ...
- The best cheap stuff in my kitchen
Through the course of learning to cook there have been a lot of purchases necessary. Well, maybe not necessary, but having the right tools has ...
- Trading Cryptocurrencies Video Course (+giveaway)
If you’ve ever been curious about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies —and perhaps wondering how to make some money with them — my friend Andreas Zeitler ...
- Web Excursions for June 5, 2017
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with MindMeister, the best collaborative mind mapping software out there. Mavo: A new, approachable way to create Web ...