Easily the most informative and useful video ever.

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

Phew that means a lot, thank you!

Thanks for that quick rundown on some decent apps - I hadn't seen Hazel before, but it looks great so I'll definitely have a look at it - thanks as always.👏

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Hazel is a sneaky great app

Thanks for sharing: very informative. Blessings on your day.

love this list, im def check out some, 1. also tip for the hazel screenshot, you can do that natively on mac os cmd+shift+5 > options > save to other location, an manually choose thats how i select my screenshot folder in a download folder. 2. loopback alternative is soundsource, you can output audio based on application or audio port such as wired headphones vs bluetooth headphones

There are some awesome suggestions in here, thank you! Grabbed Pastel and Forecast and can't wait to put them to work!

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

Great picks!

Elephas AI is a great tool if you are looking for an AI layer on top of your Mac.

@tonywilson9845

3 ай бұрын

I use Elephas a lot. It is the only app that supports adding my own data to AI. I first tried MacGPT but ended up with Elephas for the reason mentioned.

Thanks! Are these built-in apps or do we have to buy them on the app store?

wow, That is AWESOME Shephe, you have covered all THE most Needed tools for a Productive Work for 2024! Awesome Video and Tips , Keep rockin.

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Appreciate it 🙏

@babalkp

4 ай бұрын

Forgot to ask you this, where do you get your T-shirts? they all look stunning on all your videos. Could you please send a link of that?Thank you@@beardfm .

Great list, I would add Alfred. It is a must have for any Mac user. Velja is also another great tool.

Great video thanks for the tips!

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

You’re welcome!

Straight forward, no-fluff, well-produced and always a new workflows/apps/information to explore... you have the best Apple content on KZread! Please keep making videos!

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

Appreciate it so much, I plan to!

Amazing Stephen!! Thank you. So many great tips in there. -- I'm boring, I think my most (not favorite) used app is ... Notes. 🤣

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

Hey Notes is a great app!! Thanks for watching 🙏🏼

I use Bartender to organize my menu bar...hide certain apps, show always, etc. With all the app you have in your menu bar, looks like you could use it! :)

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

haha I've used in the past, may need to try it again

I don’t understand why you got hate for this video being clickbait. 🤷 I had an only ever heard of 3 of these .. cleanshot x and hazel were gamecha gets for me! Seriously thanks! That was quite a helpful video. For me atleast. Cheers 👍🏻

Great video! For Creator's Best Friend, you can actually just drag your project into the CBF application and it will automatically spit out the chapter markers. Could save you a step from exporting to XML! You probably didn't but just wanted to pass that along.

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for this! Had no idea

Great video. Would Spotlight be able to show you the path of found items?

Super solid list, using a lot of these. Have you tried Klack?

Great video - appreciate the ideas! Kinda surprised you're not an Alfred guy. That's the first thing that goes on any new mac I'm setting up! Hidden Bar also is quite handy to organize the top of my screen. Instead of text expander I use aText, which I bought for $5 a few years ago and kept the older version so I don't have to pay subscription pricing but if that wasn't an option, text expander would be my next reluctant choice. Alfred does text expansion but I've not explored that much because haven't needed that part of it yet....

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

I used to be a Quicksilver guy! But then spotlight got so good I just use that instead. Hidden Bar is another utility I've looked in to, I've tried Bartender, but eventually I try to limit the amount of third party utilities and those are the first to go, especially on a desktop when I have plenty of menu bar space.

@Jarek.

3 ай бұрын

Alfred at first glance looks like a simple replacement for Spotlight. But real power is in its Workflows (requiring paid registration). Then possibilities are endless! There is a huge library for literally anything.

@LilJoe3

22 күн бұрын

@@Jarek.I prefer raycast eliminates a lot of other apps that I don’t need clogging my device

@Jarek.

21 күн бұрын

@@LilJoe3 Yeah, endless debate: Raycast vs Alfred 😀I found in the Internet this summary, which I agree 100%: "It seems to me the general difference is: power users (i.e., the folks who care most about getting things done as efficiently as possible) tend to gravitate towards Alfred. Conversely, users who just have a small handful of specific things they want to be easier tend to pick Raycast, for the extensions that handle their use cases. (Again, however: Alfred’s beginning to catch up on that front.) I’d generally agree there. I really hope the gap between these two apps closes a bit more. I’d love for Raycast to be faster, and for its paid plans to be more affordable long-term. Conversely, I’d love for Alfred to have a better product experience around adding new workflows and customizing them."

Nice apps! I use a lot of shortcuts too. Also, I use a lot of key combination presses, to run shortcuts (shift-control-command + letter/number), open web pages (shift control option), run apps (control option command), open folders (control option). The three-modifier + key combo can be a bit of a pain. The build-in keyboard shortcut options (either through keyboard setting or Shortcuts) doesn't seem to treat the right-command or right-option keys as different from their left counterparts. So I use an app called Karabiner - it is a treasure - allows almost limitless remapping of any key or combination or the trackpad presses. So I remap left control-option-command to right command. I have also experimented with a three finger trackpad touch to the same. Though, initially, I downloaded it because on my Das Keyboard, the function keys acted like function keys, and I couldn't figure out how to make them do the Apple Mac control options (brightness, sound etc). Toggling function to control in Settings works for the built-in Apple keyboard, but not the Das keyboard. So Karabiner has some built-in remapping, such as remapping function keys to control keys. That leads me onto something else - the remapping can be device-specific. So I guess you could use an external keyboard as a customisable shortcut board, rather than a keyboard.

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

Some great recommendations, will check some of these out!

Use Raycast to save some apps, including the clipboard, spotlight, text expander and palette!

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

Need to take a closer look at Raycast 👀

@randipleon

3 ай бұрын

@@beardfm raycast is the GOAT mac app

Very useful info!

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you very much for this wonderful content. Greetings from Türkiye :).

@beardfm

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome, and amazing to have viewers across the world!

re: Hazel and screenshots. You can just set a folder for screenshots when you hit cmd+shift+5 and go to options. You don't need a separate app.

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

That was just in easy example to illustrate. Obviously it's much more powerful, can deal with any file type, folder, etc.

Man’s mastered the art of productivity Honeslty pretty blown away

@beardfm

2 ай бұрын

Appreciate that 🙏🏻

Good job!

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Great collection, but I would add Alfred app and Default Folder as well.

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

Default folder? I’ll have to check that one out

You easily replace 5-6 apps mentioned here with Raycast.

Hazel it’s amazing!

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

Yes! Love Hazel

Can one use Audio Hijack to record phone interviews for podcasting?

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

You can! Although I would recommend riverside.fm for that 😉

thank you!

@beardfm

14 күн бұрын

Welcome!

I liked this - would be useful to include the price in these videos

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

As prices change over time (but I can't change this video) I'm always hesitant to include them, but maybe I can specify when something is a one-time purchase, vs. subscription, etc.

@ToddPage1987

4 ай бұрын

that would be great! @@beardfm

I'm biased, but Raycast is #1 😁

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

Haha great app!

@JeremyDeBose

3 ай бұрын

By far my favorite app since getting my first Mac in 2022. Every one of these videos I see, I wait for Raycast.

Top tip for Creator's Best friend at 5:20, you can just drag the project directly into the window to generate the chapters rather than exporting the XML,

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

🤯🤯 amazing! Thank you

I’m only at No. 5 and I want them all already!

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

They really are my daily-used apps!

new to mac os. i noticed windows doesnt have google mobile apps. is there a lot of mobile apps for this device? does it have youtube,gmail,netflix, and yahoo mobile app?

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

The Mac doesn't have native apps for many of those services, it would be expected to access them through Safari the web browser.

@user-li6ns2lk3z

3 ай бұрын

@@beardfm oh ok i thought mac os has edge over windows interms of mobile apps. thanks

@dnvyl

3 ай бұрын

@@user-li6ns2lk3z You can install many apps as a web-app, if you prefer. This will allow you to access websites like a normal application on your Mac

How about Raycast and Arc browser? 🙂

@beardfm

4 ай бұрын

I'll have to check those out! Tried Arc but Safari is still my go-to

Raycast = All in One/🐐 for me. But I know you can’t make a Top 10 etc if you only list that one app 😂

OMG I hate apps running in the background and/or a lot of shit in my menu bar. Except for a few very important apps like calendar etc. I don’t like clutter on my machine at all.

@beardfm

Ай бұрын

Bartender is a great Mac utility that can clean up the menu bar!

RAYCAST!! its spotlight but better...

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

Everyone keeps mentioned Raycast! Gotta check it out...

@tacoman113

3 ай бұрын

Please do! @@beardfm

You miss Raycast, which you can remove 3 or more apps from your list.

@beardfm

Ай бұрын

I'll have to give Raycast a try!

@shenaria

Күн бұрын

@@beardfm You can do the things in Rayscast with Alfred and alfred is generally faster, but set up of things is not as intuitive or takes a bit more time. Alfred is also a one and done payment, while Rayscast is yet another subscription service.

Thank you for this great video!

@beardfm

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

You said, “tap that app” 😂

First as usual stephen!!

Raycast

Not free

God I hate cringe clickbait titles like this.

@beardfm

3 ай бұрын

You knew about all of them??

@purangki

3 ай бұрын

😂

@JeremyDeBose

3 ай бұрын

At least he didn’t say “I was wrong!”

@HrithikAhari29

3 ай бұрын

your dedication for hating him is insane 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Such a gnome