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
Sponsor: Backblaze (Apr 24th) Thanks to Backblaze for their gracious support of brettterpstra.com this week. If you’re not running offsite backups, you’re taking a big risk. Check out Backblaze for $5/month! Thinking in the shell (Apr 24th) Some ideas for extrapolating the semantic philosophy of my recent project. My favorite Xcode plugins (Apr 28th) A collection of the most awesome Xcode plugins I’ve found recently. Systematic 94 with David Chartier (Apr 29th)…
macos, plugin, recap, service, xcode
I know that most major social services automatically shorten URLs for you now, but there are still times I personally need to create a short url, often for the purpose of preserving query strings when submitting to various services. This is the OS X System Service I use to quickly create short urls.
productivity, service
