Best OS X utilities to help you be more productive in 2020

Pavel Polívka - Nov 30 '20 - - Dev Community

I recently started to use Mac as my main development machine. I had pretty good workflow established on my Windows machine (with heavy use of their party utilities and system build-ins) that I have hard time recreating on Macs.

This article is a list of tools/utilities to help me create best workflow as possible and to stay productive.

f.lux

This is such a no brainer. It helps you adjust color temperature of your screens. Yes OS X has something similar (as well as Windows) but none is as good as flux.

I have it setup so that the blue light is filtered a bit even during a day. Without f.lux my eyes are hurting.

My Flux Settings

Caffeine

It's very simple utility that prevents your screen from going to sleep.

Caffeine

Maccy

Clipboard management is very important to me. I need to have a searchable history of my keyboard accessible through very simple keyboard shortcut.

Maccy

AltTab

This utility brings back the windows style alt tab command. Old habits die quickly and I still using this shortcut to navigate my system.

Rectangle

OS X has terrible window management, you need to resize all the windows manually, it's pain and it slows you down.

Again there is a lot of tools that can help you with this, but Rectangle is open source and free and absolutely does its job.

Rectangle


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