My wife recently started on her 3rd degree. She has B.S. in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. She is now starting Law School. She is obviously a great student but things have changed in the, uh-hum, several years since she was in a classroom. She begrudgingly[1] asked me for advice on note-taking options for law school. It took me about three seconds to recommend OmniOutliner in both of it’s incarnations, Mac and iPad.
Macworld reviewed Moom from Many Tricks software back in April. They gave it a good rating and I figured for $5 it was worth a try. I was already using BetterTouchTool and Keyboard Maestro to move windows from the keyboard but I thought the design was interesting. I've been using Moom for several months and I am very happy with the features, stability and ease of use.
Moom has a unique interface as window management applications go.
After posting one of my macros for Keyboard Maestro @hiilppp tweeted that there is a simpler way: Create a service with one line of Shell script. That is simple, but I have more services than I care to admit. So I started to play around with various methods of triggering scripts and macros. I am not a savant with LaunchBar, TextExpander or Keyboard Maestro, so there may be better solutions that what I describe.
I love everything about this Screencast. Especially the obvious love for making interesting things. I think Boom is a solution for a problem I’ve been working on lately. Fun is at hand.
By way of Brett Terpstra
Here's another quick macro that comes in handy. I often will create a list of items and later I will want the list to be in alphabetical or numerical order. I do it enough that I created a Keyboard Maestro macro for the function.
Given a list like this:
Item 3 Item 1 Something borrowed Something blue Something Blue Alphabetical would be better I can select the items, trigger the macro, and get back this list:
I have been recently shifting a large chunk of my TextExpander snippets to Keyboard Maestro. I still plan to use TextExpander for basic snippet expansion but I find the depth of Keyboard Maestro allows me to build custom tailored tools that fit their intended uses much better.
For example, here a juiced up version of a snippet for inserting Markdown references from Safari. First, here's what my TextExpander snippet did:
Looks like there is a small uprising over at the AgileBits forum. The issue centers on their decision to go all-in on the Mac AppStore (MAS). There are two camps:[1]
People angry that they have to repurchase the application and will not get upgrade pricing People that are concerned the MAS will reduce the functionality and update cycles For the people hanging out in camp 1: If you derive $20 additional value out of MAS and the upcoming version 4 of 1Password, then pay for it.
I was excited to finally migrate my 1Password install to the Mac AppStore. I've been slowly repurchasing through the MAS so that I can quit maintaining an inventory of all of my application licenses.
Unfortunatley, there is a significant bug with the MAS version. I keep my Dropbox folder on a secondary internal drive so as to save space on my SSD. The new 1Password assumes that Dropbox is always installed in the user folder.
This is some really high quality work and attention to detail. If you add the tag "@done" at the end of a line in NVAlt, the text is automatically displayed with a strikethrough line, a la TaskPaper. It's not reformatted. It's still just plain text. But NVAlt displays it as if it was formatted with a strikethrough.
Also, don't forget the double brackets automatically create links to other notes.
It's a mature tool now, that has a huge amount of power. I often forget about how easy Automator is to use and set out writing Python or AppleScript when Automator provides a solution in a few clicks. Many times it's a one-off solution that I don't even bother to save.
Here's an example I used tonight to convert a folder of .md and .mmd files to plain text files and also set their default application to Byword (Thanks for the recommendation Brett).
