I first mentioned Yoink back in 2011, and I’ve run it every day since. It’s a small utility that shows up when you start dragging files and gives you a convenient shelf to collect them on until you’re ready to drag them out into another folder or application. It’s extremely handy.
apps, appstore, giveaway, macos
Thanks to everyone who entered, and best of luck honing your Vim skills. If you didn’t win a copy of Painless Vim, go buy one. It’s an excellent way to get acquainted with a very powerful editor. It also now includes a very well-designed and quick-to-scan cheat sheet. It’s one of the most helpful I’ve seen.
books, giveaway
I’ve updated Marky the Markdownifier with a few key fixes and improvements. It’s getting more and more traffic and has some dedicated users, so it seemed like it was about time to solve some of the more annoying issues. It still needs a usability overhaul and some kind of iOS solution, but these issues were the ones that bothered me the most.
markdown, markdownifier, marky, multimarkdown
I don’t know yet if this project is going any further, but I thought I’d share what I’ve been experimenting with. It occurred to me — after a couple dozen request for “can you make a PopClip extension for this?” — that I could probably put the power in the hands of people who aren’t necessarily comfortable editing PLIST files. I present PopMaker.
popclip, popmaker, video
Have you heard of ? Do you ache for terminal mutiplexing and persistent shell sessions? If not, you can probably skip this post. Hang tight, I have something more generally palatable in the works. In the meantime, if you want to read up, head to the tmux homepage.
scripting, terminal, tmux, zsh
If you’re a text editing, Terminal surfing kind of computer user, you probably find the venerable text editor Vim to be fascinating. Either because you’re a whiz at it and fully understand it, or because you’re like me and have spent years listening to the cool kids talk about it.
books, editor, giveaway, review, text, vim
I just wanted to drop a quick note to let everyone know that SearchLink can now be installed without any command line mucking around. It’s just a matter of downloading and double-clicking to enjoy all of the SearchLink magic.
ruby, searchlink, service
Sponsor: MailMate (May 2nd) Thanks to MailMate for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. I know utilitarian, ultra-flexible, super-powerful email clients aren’t for everyone, but if you’ve been trying every email client that comes out and always finding fault, you should check MailMate out. spl, a CLI for Spotlight searches (May 2nd) Spotlight searches from the command line, with a graphical selection menu and the ability to specify a command to run on the selected search…
recap
This week was another fun episode of Systematic with a guest I met through the AudioDrop. Robert McGinley Myers chatted with me about anxiety, and how to conquer it. It was a great chat, and I learned a few new things. Be sure to catch Robert’s followup post.
podcast, systematic
Starting right now, Marked 2 is on sale for $9.99 US (normally $11.99). This sale will only last for two days. If you’ve been waiting to buy the latest version of Marked and just needed a nudge, now’s the time.
marked, sale
This script is designed for people who want to sync a flat folder of notes (a la nvALT) to a more organized system of nested folders. It serves as a system for creating a structure that’s easier to navigate in iOS note apps, or for separating notes that might be compiled into different books or projects.
hazel, notes, nvalt, productivity, ruby, scripting
I’ve been playing with wrappers for OS X’s command line Spotlight tool for a while now. I’ve gone through many permutations, including a tool that maintains “smart folders” by symlinking the results of a Spotlight search for the contents of a .query file in a folder. That one’s not ready for prime time yet, but I found another (probably handier) solution.
cli, spotlight
