I just pushed v2.1.6 of mdless. Once all these 2.0 changes are confirmed to be stable, I’ll let this project go for a while, but right now there’s lots to improve on and I’m enjoying it as a way to blow off steam.
markdown, mdless, productivity, taskpaper, terminal, themes
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 2 1-year licenses ($99 value each) for Tower. Tower is the absolute best Git GUI out there. If you use Git for work or personal projects, its in-depth integration with the entire Git toolset makes life easier, even if you’re already well-versed in the command line. It includes great GitHub integration for pull requests and issues.
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I made a few major updates to mdless 2.0 (first announced a couple days ago) over the holiday weekend. Note that you can make all of the new options permanent in the config file (see Easily Update Config). Options specified on the command line will always override anything in the config file, so you can disable options permanently but enable them on a per-run basis using command line flags.
markdown, mdless, productivity, taskpaper, wiki
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 2 licenses ($39.95 value each) for Default Folder X. Default Folder X is an amazing extension for your open and save dialogs on macOS. It makes navigating folders easier, tagging better, and implements flexible favorites and allows specific default folders for every app. You can set up favorite folders, accessible with keyboard shortcuts, have every app track it’s most recent save-to folder, and much more.
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Thanks to Kaleidoscope for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! This app just keeps getting better. If you have any need for comparing files (especially if you code and do Git merges), it can’t be beat.
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 1-year subscriptions ($99 value each) for Noteplan. If you love plain text (and Markdown), you’re going to love Noteplan for organizing all your notes and todos. Using plain text, you can create daily logs, digital bullet journals, track todos, and keep cross-linked notes for all your stuff. Also check out the web version coming soon!
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Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! Ever wanted to get into scripted snippets but didn’t know where to start? Read on.
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I’ve had it out there for a while, but I thought I’d point out that I’ve ported my universal “help” command to Fish. removes the hassle of figuring out whether a command’s help comes from , , , or . Just run (where CMD is the command you want help on) and it will figure out the rest.
editor, fish, productivity, shell, shortcuts, terminal
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($42 value each) for Hazel. Hazel lets you create automations based on changes to files, allowing you to do things like automatically filing PDFs, sorting downloads, running optimizations on new images, or just about any file operation you can imagine.
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So it turns out Google now offers an API (once again). It’s limited to 100 searches per day for the free version, so I don’t want to put my API key into the public distribution of SearchLink, but if you want to tap into Google’s power for your searches, you can now add your own API key to the config and get 100 searches per day for free. If you should, for whatever reason, run out of searches in a day, it should gracefully switch out to the previous DuckDuckGo configuration.
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