Productivity Tips for Mac

Recommended Settings:

1. Authorize Mac
   • iTunes -> Account -> Authorizations -> Authorize This Computer..
2. System Sounds
   • Go to System Preferences -> Sound
   • Turn off Play user interface sounds effects
3. Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS
   • installation command:

   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

4. iTerm2 - A better OSX terminal
   • Shortcuts

     ⌘ + ⏎  # toggle full-screen
     ⌘ + K  # clear terminal
     ⌃ + W  # delete word backwards

   • Customised Key Mappings (Keys)

     Key Combination | Action
     -------------------------
     ⌘ h             | Send ^H Backspace
     ⌃ a             | Send Hex Codes: 0x28
     ⌃ e             | Send Hex Codes: 0x20 0x3d 0x20
     ⌘ ←             | Previous Tab
     ⌘ →             | Next Tab

   • Command (Profiles -> General -> Command) zsh
   • Working Directory (Profiles -> General -> Working Directory) Reuse previous session's Directory
   • open .
   • reset zsh history vim ~/.zsh_history
   • vi-mode (see later dotfiles and oh-my-zsh)
   • disable the Last login message
     • touch ~/.hushlogin
   • Profiles -> Text
     • Cursor
       • Box
       • turn-off Blinking cursor
     • Text Rendering
       • turn off Draw bold text in bold font
       • turn off Blinking text allowed
       • turn off Italic text allowed
     • Font
       • 14pt Monaco
   • Profiles -> Window
     • Columns: 120
     • Rows: 20
   • Enable View -> Show Tabs in Fullscreen (⇧ ⌘ T)
5. fzf
   • first install fd by brew install fd (since we have in zhrc export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='fd --type f')
   • ⌃+R
   • preview files
6. ctags
7. ag
8. rg
9. exa - A modern replacement for ls
10. htop - an interactive process viewer
11. tree - list a directory
12. diff-so-fancy

brew install diff-so-fancy

1. Tmux - A Terminal multiplexer

2. Programming Languages

   • Rust
     • curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh # all tools are installed under ~/.cargo/bin
     • rustc --version # returns the installed Rust version
     • racer
   • Elixir
     • brew install elixir
     • elixir --version # returns the installed Elixir version
   • rbenv
     • brew install rbenv
     • rbenv-gemset

       brew install rbenv-gemset

     • ruby-build

       # Using Homebrew on macOS
       $ brew install ruby-build
       
       # As an rbenv plugin
       $ mkdir -p "$(rbenv root)"/plugins
       $ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build
       
       # As a standalone program
       $ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git
       $ PREFIX=/usr/local ./ruby-build/install.sh

   • Go
     • brew install go
     • go version # returns the installed Go version
     • gocode

       go get -u github.com/mdempsky/gocode

   • Python

     brew install readline xz
     brew install pyenv
     brew install pyenv-virtualenv

   • JVM

3. Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account

   • This will enable us to do git clone [email protected]:XXXXXXX

4. neovim

   • brew install neovim
   • install vim-plug

     curl -fLo ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

   • install neovim plugins by running in neovim :PlugInstall

5. install dotfiles

   cd ~/
   git clone [email protected]:YaronWittenstein/dotfiles.git   # will create `~/dotfiles` locally
   git clone [email protected]:YaronWittenstein/dotvim.git     # will create `~/dotvim`   locally
   git clone [email protected]:YaronWittenstein/dotemacs.git   # will create `~/dotemacs` locally
   rm ~/.zshrc
   rm ~/.gemrc
   rm ~/.ctags
   rm ~/.gitconfig
   rm ~/.vimrc
   rm ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
   rm ~/.emacs.d
   ln -s ~/dotfiles/.zshrc ~/.zshrc
   ln -s ~/dotfiles/.gemrc ~/.gemrc
   ln -s ~/dotfiles/.ctags ~/.ctags
   ln -s ~/dotfiles/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
   ln -s ~/dotfiles/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
   ln -s ~/dotvim/init.vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
   ln -s ~/dotemacs ~/.emacs.d

6. oh-my-zsh - A better shell

   • installation:

   sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

   • zsh-autosuggestions

   git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions
   
   # add to zshrc
   source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

   • zsh-syntax-highlighting

   brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting
   
   # add to zshrc
   source ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

   • list of plugins:

   cargo
   rustup
   go
   ruby
   bundler
   rbenv
   gem
   mix
   rust
   brew
   osx
   gem
   git
   gitfast
   git-remote-branch
   dirhistory
   cp
   vi-mode
   last-working-dir
   zsh-autosuggestions
   zsh-syntax-highlighting
   

7. Caffeine - Don't let your mac fall asleep

8. evernote - Note manager

9. Chrome Settings:

   • Downloads
     • go to chrome://settings in the address bar
     • click on Advanced
     • change the default Location
     • turn on Ask where to save each file before downloading

10. Chrome plugins

    • Grammarly
    • JSONView
    • Save to Pocket
    • Evernote Web Clipper
    • 1Password
    • Send from Gmail (by Google)
    • Octotree

11. Chrome shortcuts:

    ⌘ + l      # Jump to the address bar
    ⌘ + n      # Open a new window
    ⌘ + ⇧ + n  # Open a new window in Incognito mode
    ⌘ + ⇧ + t  # Reopen the last closed tab, and jump to it
    ⌥ + ⌘ + j  # Open the JavaScript Console
    Esc        # Stop the page loading
    ⌘ r        # Reload your current page
    ⌘ ⇧ r      # Reload your current page, ignoring cached content
    ⌘ +        # Make everything on the page bigger
    ⌘ -        # Make everything on the page bigger
    ⌘ f        # Open the Find Bar to search the current page
    ⌘ g        # Jump to the next match to your Find Bar search
    ⌘ ⇧ g      # Jump to the previous match to your Find Bar search

    • chrome://chrome-urls/
      • chrome://settings (shortcut: ⌘ ,)
      • chrome://extensions

12. Github shortcuts:

    • find commit t
    • change in the commit url: /commit to /tree
    • search for a file using t

13. Karabiner - A powerful and stable keyboard customizer

    • open Karabiner - Elements
    • click on ⊕ Add item
    • select caps_lock under From key and escape under To key

14. Git aliases (gp, gl, gmd, gmm, gsq, grhh) [note that oh-my-zsh brings most of these by default]

    gp    # git push
    gl    # git pull
    gd    # git diff
    gs    # git status -sb
    gmd   # git merge develop
    gmm   # git merge master
    gac   # git add --all; git commit -m
    glg   # git log
    grhh  # git rest HEAD --hard
    gsq   # git rebase -i

15. Tower + Kaleidoscope - Version control with Git - made easy

16. Github for Mac

17. Dash

18. Hide Spotlight

• System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy -> Keyboard Shortcuts...
  • turn off Show Spotlight search
  • turn off Show Finder search window
• Important: don't Disable Spotlight indexing since Alfred relies on it

1. Alfred - Spotlight in steroids (extreme search, hot-keys, workflows, keywords etc)
   • Make sure that Spotlight indexing is running sudo mdutil -a -i on
   • Recommended Settings
     • General
       • Turn on 'Launch Alfred at login'
       • Alfred Hotkey: ⌘ Space
     • Features
       • File Search
         • Opening Files: o (open is the default)
   • Alfred Workflows
     • Kill Process (kill PROCESS)
     • Flush DNS (fdns)
     • Password Generator (pwgen 10)
     • TimeZones (tz london)
     • Dictionary (define WORD)
     • StackOverflow Search (.so ...)
     • Dash (dash ...)
       • rename dash to d under the worflow Script Filter
2. FlexiGlass - Window Mover
   • Recommended Settings
     • Move
       • turn on Enabled
       • under Start moving when pressed mark ⌥ Option and select the One finger option
     • Resize
       • turn on Enabled
       • under Start resizing when pressed mark ⌥ Option and select the Two fingers option
3. PopClip
   • Extensions
   • Recommended Extensions:
     • Base64 Encode
4. Yoink
5. Owl
6. FlyCut
7. aText
   • iCloud sync (Preferences -> Sync)
     • Select Sync aText data to (choose iCloud Drive)
     • Select Sync aText's preferences
8. Clear
   • iCloud sync
9. Sticky Notes
10. Unclutter
    • Dropbox sync
11. Skype
12. Slack
13. Telegram
14. Atom
15. Kindle for Mac
16. Pocket
17. anki
    • How to Increase Your Brain's Cache Hits?
18. Paw
19. numi
20. Keyboard Settings
    • Key Repeat -> Select Fast
    • Delay Until Repeat -> Select Short
21. Increasing keyboard repeat rate

    defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 15  # normal minimum is 15 (225 ms)
    defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 2          # normal minimum is 2 (30 ms)

22. emacs
23. cloc - Count Lines of Code
    • brew install cloc
24. PowerPhotos – Merge Mac Photos libraries, find duplicates, and more
25. Gemini 2: The Duplicate Finder
26. other:
    • eyes
      • GUNNAR
      • f.lux
    • ears
      • QuietComfort 35
    • music
      • Classic
      • Hot Spring
27. Cyberduck - a cloud storage browser