I have a slew of aliases that launch various apps. Quite a few of them launch apps that I generally only use with one type of file. Xcode and TaskPaper, for example. I wanted a completion system that would find just the applicable files in the directory. In most cases with these apps there’s only one file per project, so being able to type and hit tab to open the file for the current project is handy.
scripting, terminal
Marked 2 is great for live previews while you write Markdown, but it’s also very handy for reading long form articles. There’s a variety of themes to choose from and many features for quickly navigating through long pieces.
marked, tips
Here’s a quick script that works with an IFTTT recipe to put your Pocket favorites into nvALT as Markdown. It works well for me because I typically use Pocket to store articles that are more informational than time sensitive. If you star a lot of “newsy” articles, this is probably a bad idea, but for reference material it’s helpful.
hazel, ifttt, markdown, nvalt, scripting
Carl Johnson left a comment on my “Lazy Markdown Links” post to mention that he’s long used a similar “lazy” method for footnotes. It struck me as a great idea. I whipped up another preprocessor1 for Marked 2 to make it work. It works as a standalone script, too.
markdown, marked, multimarkdown
I’ve been looking for a decent plugin to add a few features to my New Tab Page in Chrome. I found “the one” recently: Humble New Tab.
chrome, extension
About one year ago, Hugo Verweij brought us Cleartones Organic (mentioned here), and I’ve used the collection of cleverly simple, non-grating ringtones and alerts ever since. Now he’s produced Cleartones Pure, and I’m excited that he’s sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com to celebrate.
notifications
I’ve actually begun work on a book about tagging, and Mavericks in particular. It’s a subject I truly enjoy, and so far it’s kind of been writing itself. I hope to wrap it up faster than some of my other side projects. Bits that I think aren’t mass-consumable enough for publication will end up here, where my gentle readers can decide for themselves if they want to do anything with it.
macos, tagging, terminal
As you might expect, I’m enthusiastically exploring Mavericks’ file tagging. I looked into the state of the OpenMeta transition yesterday and found that many of the best OpenMeta tagging apps already have reasonable solutions, including Hazel, HoudahSpot, Leap and Yep. There are a few others that I’m not certain will ever get updates, but I have word that my favorite, Tags, should be getting some serious love soon.
finder, macos, tagging, tips
I’ve updated the Random Lipsums group in the TextExpander Tools. Again. I removed some services that weren’t working any more, and expanded some of the other tools. The biggest new addition is a Random Markdown generator, complete with tables, definition lists, footnotes and more. It’s perfect for testing stylesheets and, if you happen to develop a Markdown preview app, it’s also perfect for testing various processors. There are also versions included in the snippet…
lipsum, snippet, textexpander, tools
For those of you using the Geeklet to display your top RAM processes on your Desktop, I’ve updated the script located here with a version compatible with Mavericks and Ruby 2.0.
geeklet, macos, ruby, scripting
One step at a time, I’m updating as many of my tools as are still relevant to work with Mavericks. Up for review right now are the Markdown Service Tools. This update should fix all of them, but if you have any issues with a particular Service, let me know.
macos, markdown, markdownservices, service
