Setting up the new mac today. What's in your top 5 "day 1 installs"? (aside from obvious stuff) - ThreadSky

briancasel.com • 101 days ago

Setting up the new mac today.

What's in your top 5 "day 1 installs"?

(aside from obvious stuff)

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conarro.com•101 days ago

@raycast.com
Clop
Dropover
Cleanshot
Dash

conarro.com•101 days ago

Oh also Colima for docker

kbit.ca•101 days ago

I honestly don’t understand this anymore. Why not use Migration Assistant/Time Machine and keep everything you had in your old mac? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

briancasel.com•101 days ago

A lot of crap I don’t want anymore. Rather add stuff back on when I feel I miss it.

alxvernier.bsky.social•100 days ago

Karabiner to easily use my azerty french keyboard as a qwerty one :
- accented characters è é ê à on 7 8 9 0 keys
- caps_lock as cmd+ctrl+opt+shift for shortcuts via Raycast
- hjkl navigation

chrisgmyr.dev•101 days ago

SetApp, 1Password, Homebrew, iTerm2, Alfred

colinloretz.gg•101 days ago

Cleanshot
iTerm2
1Pass
Textmate

jamie.ideasasylum.com•101 days ago

SetApp: iStatMenus, Yoink, ClearshotX

zacjohnson.bsky.social•101 days ago

@raycast.com !!

joelhooks.com•101 days ago

https://www.scriptkit.com

casabona.org•101 days ago

@raycast.com
Hazel
Obsidian
SoundSource
Yoink (I was going to say Setapp but that feels like cheating)

(also this assumed Dropbox is obvious)

matthewpoulter.co.za•101 days ago

📌

briancoords.com•101 days ago

Chess
Photo Booth
Stickies
Contacts
TextEdit

jointhedots.au•101 days ago

# Helpful apps
$ brew install bat # a better cat
$ brew install ag # Silver Searcher; a faster grep
$ brew install --cask spotify
$ brew install --cask postman # API client
$ brew install --cask paw # different API client

jointhedots.au•101 days ago

$ brew install --cask rectangle # excellent window manager
$ brew install fzf # fuzzy find, better terminal recall
$ $(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install

paulca.com•101 days ago

I like @mikemcquaid.com’s strap https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap

jimdpm.bsky.social•101 days ago

1. 1Password - might be obvious :)
2. ColorSlurp
3. aText
4. TunnelBear
5. Tella

jbranchaud.bsky.social•101 days ago

I’d grab a dump of my brew installs from my current machine, do some light curation, and then install most of those. https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/brew/export-list-of-everything-installed-by-brew.md

nicknisi.com•101 days ago

1. WezTerm
2. AeroSpace
3. PolyPane
4. Clipboard manager (I use Raycast)
5. CleanShot X

esmecrutchley.com•101 days ago

CleanShotX
Wavebox
Signal
Fantastical
PastePal
Toggl + Timery
Streamdeck

franck.isalazy.dev•101 days ago

I build https://github.com/fdelache/omacase (a fork of DHH's Omakub, but for the mac). Not complete yet, but if that can help kickstart the process.

trudheim.bsky.social•101 days ago

Bitwarden.
XCode.
Homebrew.
Vim.
Neomutt.
Bash.
Irssi.
Viscosity.
The tools to run Linux in containers/vms so I have a proper OS to work with. 😂

cesarcontreras.com•101 days ago

https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/

https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy

https://tools.rotato.app/compress/desktop

Aside from the obvious, 👆these for sure

flaviomili.bsky.social•101 days ago

Arc, my personal .config for wezterm and neovim and you are good to go

scottw.com•101 days ago

For coding: Mise, starship, atuin, kitty, and VS Code

General Mac: Ice (bartender alt), alt tab, raycast, magnet, and tots.

evanfuchs.com•80 days ago

Alfred
Keyboard Maestro
Dropbox
Karabiner
1Password (unless Passwords replaces it by then)

deceanglius.bsky.social•101 days ago

Karabiner Elements
Keyboard Maestro
Homebrew
Dropbox
Scrivener

russellbrown.bsky.social•101 days ago

Aside from obvious dev stuff... Raycast && Bartender

rmcastil.bsky.social•101 days ago

Haven’t done a great job keeping this updated the last couple of months but I usually run scripts from this every time I setup a new mac: https://github.com/rmcastil/dotfiles/tree/master

lernerpython.com•101 days ago

Homebrew. iTerm2. Emacs. Alfred. 1Password.

seyer.co•101 days ago

I have a new mac mini on the way and the 5 first installs will be Arc,Notion,Notion Calendar,Obsidian and Rectangle

kbit.ca•101 days ago

+1 for rectangle

Why Notion /and/ Obsidian? Most people I know use Obsidian to replace Notion

seyer.co•101 days ago

I use Obsidian as a way to organise thousands of pdfs for me

Notion is primarily for a lot of databases I have setup

handle.invalid•101 days ago

Cleanshot is now a requirement for me. Elegant software that improves my daily workflow

https://cleanshot.com/

evoncodes.bsky.social•101 days ago

iTerm, HomeBrew, VLC Media Player

djenvert.bsky.social•101 days ago

Alfred. Hazel. 1Password. Drafts. TextMate.

vartec.bsky.social•101 days ago

1. Homebrew
2. VS Code
3. iTerm2
4. p10k
5. FiraCode NF

fizzadar.com•101 days ago

WezTerm/Homebrew/Sublime/Raycast/Syncthing

danawoodman.com•101 days ago

- rectangle: window management
- raycast: better finder
- clean my mac
- noteplan: for, well, notes
- bartender: clean menu bar

use setapp to get access to a lot of these

thedanieljlewis.bsky.social•101 days ago

TextExpander, Keyboard Maestro, Arc or Brave, and Telegram, Bartender.

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