I started my project late last week and it’s turned into my “productive procrastination” project. It’s a simple CLI that helps you keep track of what you’re doing and provides a record of what you’ve done.
cli, doing, productivity
This tip from Macworld is a fun one for writers. It’s about how you can manually trigger the autocorrect popup in Cocoa text fields by hitting space after a misspelled word and then moving the caret backward to the edge of the word. After a very short delay, the suggestion popover (only in the most recent versions of OS X) will appear and you can use arrow keys and enter to choose one. Dismiss it with escape. It avoids the entire process of right clicking and choosing a correction from…
keyboard, macos, productivity, quicktip, writing
I lamented on Twitter and App.net that my Dock was no longer respecting “Keep in Dock,” and hadn’t for a while now. It turned out I was far from alone; I heard from a lot of people having the same experience. One friend, Thomas Brand, offered a simple solution: delete the Dock preferences. It stung a bit — it’s the equivalent of “did you try rebooting?” — but it worked and I’m grateful.
macos, solutions, tips
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bookmarks, cli, marked, text
The CLI that I announced yesterday has been more warmly received than I expected. I’ll share expansions and updates to it as they happen. If you’ve already installed with , you can update with the latest features using . Fresh installs will get them by default.
cli, doing, productivity
I made something that I worked really hard on, despite knowing few people besides myself would ever find a use for it. However, if you:
doing, productivity, scripting
So I made this. It’s not even what I’ve been spending most of my hacking time on the last couple of days, but that’s not quite ready to unveil yet. Actually, neither is this…
cli, markdown
Sponsor: Rittman Mead (Mar 6th) Thanks to Rittman Mead for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! Link cleaning extensions for PopClip (Mar 6th) A couple of new extensions for lengthening shortened urls and clearing off query strings and Google tracking information. Owning your cloud backup (Mar 9th) Using Arq 4 and a remote Mac for offsite backups. Don’t miss out on the Arq 4 Giveaway! GeoHopper and iBeacons for proximity scripting (Mar 10th) An experiment in using iBeacons…
recap
Stormboard is a new web app for collaborative brainstorming. It’s based on sticky notes and multi-section boards. While not my ideal brainstorming format, it’s very effective for quickly getting ideas out, organizing them and developing them. It’s ideal for remote teams who are used to using whiteboards, and comes with SSL-encrypted connections even at the free subscription level.
brainstorming, productivity
MindMeister, my favorite online Mind Mapping application, now has a Google Docs add-on available. It can take any bullet list in your document and turn it into a mind map embedded in the document. No MindMesiter account is required to use it.
google, mindmapping
It was fun talking with David Duval on this week’s Systematic. He’s a university professor who’s worked in both New Zealand and Canada. We talked about picking up and moving to new countries, life in New Zealand and technology in higher education and distance learning.
podcast, systematic
Arq 4 is a major step forward for the offsite backup application. Along with support for myriad new storage types (including GreenQloud, DreamObjects, Google Cloud Storage, and any Amazon S3-compatible service), it also added SFTP backup so that I could use my remote mini as a backup storage device.
apps, backup, giveaway, macos
