One, foreword
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Man is great because he can create and use tools!
Sharp tools are necessary to do good work. Efficient tools and methods not only maximize our time savings, but also allow us to stay focused to the extent that we can get more out of less.
But just having tools that can’t be used doesn’t help either, so here follow something I don’t have three hearts, combined with their own use of the actual scene and method, to detail those Mac tools to make efficiency MAX!
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Before you can see how effective these productivity tools are, it’s worth mentioning some of the best Mac app communities out there. (There are also premium communities, but for your wallet’s sake, here are some free ones.)
- Xclient: https://xclient.info/
- Wheat krypton pie(Former Watchman of Love): https://www.waitsun.com/topics/os.
Two, necessary tools
sEfficiency artifact Alfred had to play
Alfred is a tool similar to the original Spotlight on the Mac, and it’s powerful enough to make you drop your mouse.
Basic setup and use
After downloading, you can set the shortcut keys as you like, for example, I set Option + Space (the distance between the two keys is just comfortable and easy to touch).
What can we do with it?
Quick start & Switch apps
The basic thing is that you can use it to quickly launch and switch apps. When we use the shortcut keys to summon, we can enter the key word of the App to quickly start or switch quickly:
Find/search files quickly
To search for relevant files in a local file, enter the built-in keyword find along with the file name:
Quick Input – Custom quick phrases
We use the Mac every day to do a lot of template text input. Alfred’s Snippet text extension helps:
For example, we set up a short sentence e-mye to quickly output our email :(we even saw how it works by recording Gif software.. Back + paste..)
For routine tasks like committing code, I’m used to the console, so I’ve defined a gitC phrase to quickly print git commit -a -m:
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More about this powerful function can refer to this article: zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/33753656
Workflow tool for Efficiency Max
For a practical scenario, when we want to query a word on Mac, or translate a word, we usually go through a very long process of several steps:
- Manually open the browser;
- Go to the Google home page;
- Select the input box;
- Type or paste the word you want to query;(You may also need to manually enter the word ‘translate’.)
- Wait for the browser to display the results;
Even using something like Youdao Dictionary is basically the same, so repetitive mechanical work can be done perfectly with Alfred Workflow:
Workflow is much more than that, of course:
- Generate a variable name:
There is also a site called CODEDLF that also supports Workflow imports. This site may output variable names that are more natural than the above tool. For example, I searched for the translation of I don’t have three hearts and gave a more natural hearts:
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Workflow is very powerful, with lots of existing functionality (Google search) and lots of iterative developers (see your own development too). Those who want to learn more and download Workflow can do their own research.
sSwitch apps: Manico
On OS X, when we want to start or switch apps, we usually have three options:
- For common applications, move the mouse cursor to the bottom of the screen to open the Dock, and select an application to start or switch.
- For an application that has been started, press CMD + Tab to call out the switcher, press Tab or use the mouse to select an application to switch to.
- For apps that are neither in the Dock nor launched, you can open them through the Launchpad or Spotlight search app.
Alfred is good enough to help us switch apps quickly, but it’s still not enough. With Manico we can quickly switch to the specified application by pressing the specified shortcut key to exit the interface, and then customize the binding key according to the application. This further eliminates the inefficiency of entering the application name :(no shortcut key I pressed is recorded.)
In the image above, you can see a Dock in the middle (I called it by pressing Optino locally) and a button in the upper right corner for each app to switch between apps quickly and accurately.
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Of course, switching apps depends on personal habits. I have also seen some people put the Dock vertically on the left or right, but I am not used to the feeling of an empty screen. And the size of the Dock is not controllable at all..
More information about Manico can be found in this article: sspai.com/post/32457
sGoogle Chrome
Chrome is simple, fast, and has a lot of very powerful plugins to choose from, and once you sign into your Google account, the syncing feature will make the experience even better, whether it’s automatic password generation or automatic password filling that you can take with you. All the reasons WHY I can’t give it up:
Recommend a few more practical plug-ins below.
Screen advertisement artifact | Adblock Plus
This extension should be installed by anyone who uses Chrome. It will help you block most web ads and manually add them to the block column if you miss them.
Tab management/merge | OneTab
Many times we have too many tabs open in one window, and each Tab is too small to be easily managed. In this case, OneTab can put all the tabs in one page, and click to open the Tab, which is very convenient.
Video acceleration | Video Speed Controller
Especially when watching tutorial videos, it is highly recommended to turn on video acceleration, just as we read articles, reading word by word is too inefficient. In fact, our brains can keep up with a slightly faster pace of input.
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The official Github:https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed
Screen | cross word translation ChaZD
Necessary reading magic device, support in the web page delimit words can be translated in real time for us, especially for me such “English small white”, for me to save a lot of time to check the translation.
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Chrome plug-ins are more and more useful recommendations can also refer to: zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/37373891, but the tool is designed to help us to further improve the efficiency of the.. Be careful not to be dazzled by the variety of tools..
sScreenshots of Snipaste and Xnip
Snipaste
Snipaste is a standard screenshots tool that provides basic screenshots, annotations, and color capture, as well as advanced features like history playback, image top display, custom Settings, and most importantly: free!
Snipaste | history playback
By pressing the, and. Key, we can switch to the screenshot history before and after this screenshot:
Not only can we easily retrieve historical screenshots, but we can also review the history of previous screenshots.
Snipaste | image set-top function
Imagine a scenario where, for example, we need to refer to some non-replicable document to input our own stuff, and the cost of switching between two applications (assuming there is not enough screen space) is very high.. We can improve our efficiency by using the Snipaste texture feature:
Xnip
The reason for choosing Xnip is simple: it has better annotation tools and supports scrolling, and the screenshot window can be shaded to make it look better:
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To learn more you can turn right official: zh.xnipapp.com/
sWindow management | MaxSnap
MaxSnap allows Windows to be moved quickly across multiple monitors and Workspace while maintaining traditional window management:
- Image source: https://www.waerfa.com/maxsnap-review
The MultiTouch and Move/ Resize functions add value to the software. The former allows users to use two-finger gestures on the touch pad to quickly operate and locate four Windows: right, left, full screen and center, while the latter provides more precise control.
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More details can be found here: www.waerfa.com/maxsnap-rev…
sAlso the menu bar a “clean” | Bartender
The menu bar in the upper right corner of the screen gets bigger and bigger as the Mac gets older. After all, every app wants to be C bit. Bartender is a useful menu bar management tool that allows you to put a large number of menus into the Bartender secondary menu, which not only looks cleaner but is less of a hassle to use. Can solve and organize the menu bar space too exhausted problem:
There are fewer unnecessary menu bar displays so that the apps we really need to focus on can be displayed.
Iii. Reference of other efficiency tools and methods
sCollect all | impression notes
Evernote has very convenient clipping and collection functions across the platform, which makes it very easy to save anything we want to collect and save. Of course, if you can properly use the tags that come with Evernote to manage your documents, it will be more efficient.
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For the use of Evernote, please refer to the following articles:
- How to use “label” to take notes | impression notes official – staging.yinxiang.com/2017/03/01/…
- Impression introductory notes in order to avoid the pit guide | minority – sspai.com/post/47150
- After a year of thinking, I renew my impression | minority – sspai.com/post/46056 notes using method
sFinishing all | Notion
O: Notion! O: Notion! Unlike most note-taking apps, note-note-tags are different from Markdown editors or rich text editors. < span style = “box-sizing: border-box; color: RGB (74, 74, 74); display: Block; line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px! Important; white-space: inherit! Important; word-break: inherit! Important;” It really lives up to its name.
Evernote is more like a collector. With Notion, we can do anything.
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The screenshots below are from the minority article: sspai.com/post/54148
Meeting record | the Meeting Notes
Travel planning | Travel Plan
The process of target tracking | OKRs
Individual/Team homepage | the Personal/Team Home
And More..
And so on. Even better, we can customize our own templates, for example, Notion < span style = “box-sizing: border-box! Important; word-wrap: break-word! Important;
In a word, Everything is ok
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The downside is that access is sometimes slow + ladders may be required, and the client is actually a browser in a shell.
sSave all | Paste & Yoink
Paste helps you save the history of your clipboard and make it easy to review them.
Yoink can be used as a staging post for temporary files. For example, if you’re familiar with Jane books, you know that if you upload a.gif image, it won’t work when you copy it on the clipboard, it will become a static image, and only when you drag the file from the desktop into the browser will the.gif file be generated. This involves two tedious steps:
- Need to put
.gifImages are extra saved to the desktop. - Dragging a browser from the desktop may involve window sizing and hiding 10,000 Windows.(red)
Such problems can be solved by Yoink, and it will help us to delete them automatically :(the following is just a demo, there will be more scenarios in actual use)
sDraw everything | OmniGraffle
Some famous company software, drawing graphics is very convenient, you can customize some components out of convenient reuse, most of my blog pictures are drawn using this software, to a few pictures for reference:
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Fishing artifact | fishing to Max efficiency
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Conscience recommendations
Some more conscientious efficiency tips:
- Use Google search;
- Use Google search;
- Use Google search.
Don’t want to start a war.. Understand nature understand.. I also try my best to use Markdown to write articles, which saves us a lot of trouble in typography. Now I often use an online page (you can see the GIF above) to write my blog. The website: www.mdnice.com/, this website supports export to wechat, Zhihu, nuggets and other formats, the most important is to support custom CSS, very Nice.
Four, summary
In fact, this article has long come up with, always want to wait and see, plus some things to delay, now is also a small “dream” bar.
In addition, no matter how fast the knife is sharpened, cutting talent is the real skill, do not indulge in tools, tools are only tools, the most important thing is to return to their own “career”.
If you have any efficiency Max software, please leave a comment below to discuss!
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