I’ve been working on a MacBook Pro for more than two years. I’ve used a lot of tools and downloaded a lot of software that I open once and never use again.

Needless to say, the following is a summary of some high-frequency use, significantly improve office efficiency, let the desktop pleasant software and some of their own ideas to improve efficiency, hoping to let you do not spend too much time searching and trying all kinds of software can build their own satisfaction with the workbench.

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Alfred — The king of efficiency

One of the most commonly used tools is Alfred, which is essentially an enhanced version of Spotlight, as shown below.

But what I use the most is its workflow feature, which allows you to customize instructions to trigger events or actions. What can be achieved? Alfred does most of my searches for words, weather, calculator, Baidu, Zhihu, Github, Google, alarm clock, documents, and websites.

To sum it up: Alfred made me use the mouse (trackpad) a lot less and focus on code words.

ITerm2 — necessary to install, since the end of the Mac

ITerm2 this is the most convenient way of arousal and multi-window mode, the configuration of the corresponding keyboard shortcuts and Settings can be realized on the terminal window floating in the current window, the benefits of this feature is to make you * * open a terminal, anytime and anywhere out namely, * * never appear terminal window too much influence own mood of the scene

Master some basic shortcut keys, split screen, toggle, full screen display, one key clearance is not in the words.

Sizeup — The size position of the window, which you control

I only found this tool this year. There’s always been this pain point: manually dragging the size of some window with the mouse and splitting it on a screen.

This tool allows me to use shortcuts to properly assign Windows and window locations. It feels like dark magic.

OneTab – Records your browser package window

OneTab is a Chrome plugin for managing your Tab bar.

Sometimes, the status bar may fill up because I opened up A bunch of pages doing transaction A. Then you immediately switch to doing transaction B for several days. A few days later, I want to switch back to doing transaction A, but I find that I can’t find those pages opened before. What should I do?

OneTab saves a package of Windows until you need to open them.

In short, switching your “work context” is lossless.

Appcleaner — used to uninstall programs all the time

Apps installed through a third party don’t have an “x” on the icon, so you can’t uninstall them directly. If you go to the application folder directory to directly delete, and worry about uninstallation is not clean.

AppCleaner solves this problem, a tiny tool that displays all the files associated with the application by dragging in the icon of the application you want to delete, and then clicking Delete.

Bartender — Your status bar is the cleanest

First let’s look at a cluttered status bar.

After being set up in Bartender:

Being able to customize the ICONS displayed on the status bar and fold the ones you don’t need (and then open the folds) is powerful enough.

Icons8 – makes finding project ICONS easier

Front-end engineers may need to add ICONS to their projects to see how they look, or they may want to add a nice icon to the README for their own personal projects.

One way to do this is to go to the IconFont website and find the icon, then download it and put it in the project directory.

The Icons8 offers an easier way to search and drag into the project file directory.

It also has a choice of different file formats, but there’s a charge for hd, which isn’t cheap. For daily personal use, it is quite convenient.

TeamViewer — Remote control, meeting artifact

Since learning the computer, in the eyes of others, they seem to become able to repair the computer. It’s always a case of remotely controlling someone else’s computer, but the great thing about TeamViewer is that it’s very smooth and cross-terminal. It is also easy to operate. Let the other party download a TeamViewer, and you can enter its ID and password to control the other party’s computer.

Meetings, desktop presentations and other functions are also available, but there are other software on the market that can do it, so I don’t want to give you a single introduction.

These are ways to improve efficiency at the tool level, effective and practical for everyone. In the following may share some methods, thinking ways to improve efficiency, please stay tuned ~

In conclusion, part of the purpose of these tools is to reduce our use of the mouse and trackpad so that we spend most of the time with our hands on the keyboard and our eyes on the screen, thereby reducing some of the switching costs and keeping our thoughts from being interrupted by switching.

Others save time by cutting down on tedious steps.

More practical software can refer to yunqian boss article: juejin. Im /post/684490…






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