Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

[ericol]

Just the Command+X feature for cutting files is worth its weight in gold. Or Bitcoin.

[ghusto]

Then this https://sindresorhus.com/command-x

(same guy)

[jedberg]

Anyone remember PowerToys for Windows 95? This remind me of that. Advanced features that were there that just needed to be exposed.

Of course in this case it's not from Apple itself, but still a great idea!

[add-sub-mul-div]

It's active again, they've open sourced and reinvested in it with new utilities.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

[pvg]

I think some such utilities for classic MacOs predate PowerToys and there are a bunch for osx-y macOS so the there's a long proud history of these from not-Apple.

[nunez]

Sindre is also the author of Actions, which is basically this but fo iOS Shortcuts. Dude lives entirely off of open source, afaik. Massive respect.

[derekjobst]

Wow, this guy has a ton of other menu bar apps. So many features I have thought about but never bothered to build/find. Awesome!

[a1j9o94]

I'll have to give this a shot. I switched from a windows machine to a Mac for a better dev experience on my personal projects, but I miss a lot of the windows file explorer shortcuts

[viraptor]

> Unminimizes an app’s windows when activated

Does it mean I can bring back 1password with 1 click instead of 3? (If I forget MacOS is stupid and minimise it) That would be amazing!

[cassianoleal]

Why do you need 3 clicks to bring back 1Password after minimising it? On my mac, it behaves like any other minimised window. A single click on its Dock icon does the trick.

Personally though, I always close it - as it's trivial to call it with ⌘\ .

[juancn]

If you're comfy with a bit of code and there's a nagging thing you wish you could change on your Mac, Hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) is a great tool.

For example, I use it to add a shortcut that completely hides or shows Zoom's on screen controls while sreen-sharing, but in a way they don't pop up again if you press ESC (I'm a developer, so ESC is kinda a necessary key).

This one looks polished, if the nag it's bothering you is covered.

[OptionOfT]

Macos shortcuts are ... more than weird. It's like someone said: we need shortcuts, and then took a random shortcut generator. Control + Command + Shift + 3/4 to do a selection-box screenshot.

Which one is save to clipboard and which one is save to disk? Who knows.

And then there is inconsistency. You're in Finder, where 'return/enter' (for some reason) invokes file rename. Cmd+O to open.

But in a file selector window, say Numbers, 'return/enter' actually opens the file...

[etrautmann]

Ah yes, I have motor memory with my left "claw" to create a drag screenshot on mac os