You may have noticed I’m running a series of giveaways on this blog. Literally every developer I’ve reached out to has been willing to put up 1-10 licenses or 1-year subscriptions for their app, and I’m extremely pleased with the list I’ve put together. In an effort to keep track of all of them, I’ve built some (if I do say so myself) impressive automation around this project, and I thought I’d share. It’s some mad science, but it’s working great…
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Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! When it comes to focusing my attention, nothing helps avoid mundane distractions better than not having to repeat myself in emails, type out common urls, or fix my most common misspellings. TextExpander brings all of these features to your whole team.
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a Pro license ($69.99 value) for Hookmark. Hookmark is the ultimate tool for keeping track of all of your stuff. Your links, your notes, your documents, your tasks… Hookmark makes everything linkable and provides easy navigation between related objects. It takes a minute to work it into your workflow, but once you do, you’ll wonder how you lived without it.
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Recent releases of Marked have fixed Bear compatibility on Sonoma. As part of this, I’ve updated the Bear style for Marked, and written a little custom preprocessor to handle Bear’s (CommonMark) syntax properly. If you want a Marked preview styled to look exactly like Bear (with all of Marked’s options for export, navigation, and other features), you can use the Bear style in combination with the preprocessor, but if you just want Bear’s syntax properly interpreted, you…
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The Marked update is live for direct customers, and in review for Setapp and Mac App Store customers. Watch for updates on your channel. It fixes an issue that prevented Marked from opening any files on Sonoma, and also crashes when using with Drafts’ or Bear’s “Preview in Marked” features. It should solve the issue for all versions of macOS.
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Thanks to Dropzone for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been a Dropzone fan for many years now, and use it daily for everything from processing images to sharing files via my S3 account.
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a 1-year subscription ($108 value) for Timing. I use Timing daily and it’s helped me automatically track time that I would never have had the discipline to manage on my own. Billable hours, time I spend on personal projects, time I spend gaming, pretty much anything I do on my Mac, my iPhone, or my iPad gets tracked and I can easily categorize based on rules (that are as easy as dragging and dropping to generate). I even integrated it with…
giveaway, macos
Thanks to Sanebox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! I just trained 3 new senders into custom Sanebox folders today (just by moving an email from them once) and will never have to see them in my Inbox again, and will be able to easily locate them when I do want to see them. It’s so easy!
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I’m super excited about this one, as I consider CleanShot X to be one of the best Mac apps developed in the last few years. Hands down the best screenshot/recording app, but also just a highly elegant app all around.
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