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A Mac app called Alfred has saved me countless hours. It comes with a clipboard manager (extremely useful), and the ability to create custom workflows/hotkeys,

A Mac app called Alfred has saved me countless hours. It comes with a clipboard manager (extremely useful), and the ability to create custom workflows/hotkeys, which I use to switch back and forth between Skype, Chrome, and Sublime. iTerm2 already has a hotkey feature built in, but if it didn't I'd have made one (takes <30 seconds). Following Gary Bernhardt's advice, mapping Caps Lock to a modifier key (he recommends Control I think, I mapped it to Alt) has been awesome. Aliasing common Git commands to 2-3 letter commands has been nice. gc -> git commit, gaa -> git add --all, gpom -> git push origin master, etc. Vimium for Chrome is nice if you're used to Vim keybindings for navigating. hop is a command-line tool for jumping to directories (or SSH'ing into servers). Immensely valuable.

philip1209 12y ago
We have an internal wiki page with custom alfred formulas for our company. "customer <email>" "domain <domain>" "logs <logs>"" It makes life for engineers, support, and sales much more efficient.
- notduncansmith 12y ago
  I wish there were enough Mac users at our company to make this worthwhile. Is your whole team on OS X?
  - philip1209 12y ago
    No, but in general company laptops are macbooks. They play nicely with virtualized operating systems, SSHing into *nix servers, windows via bootcamp, etc. The Alfred formulas are shared more out of courtesy than a company need.
alialkhatib 12y ago
I actually feel like Vimium is nice even if you're not familiar with Vim. Or that was my experience. And when I later made a conscious effort to learn Vim's commands and use it more frequently, the navigation controls I had learned in Vimium made the learning curve less steep than I think it typically is for people first starting out.
ntonozzi 12y ago
Where can I find hop? All my search results talk about traceroutes.
- IbJacked 12y ago
  It looks like it might be this one: https://github.com/Cue/hop https://github.com/Cue/hop
  - notduncansmith 12y ago
    That's the one indeed. Sorry for not providing a link!
lenage 12y ago
I also recommend autojump, it make cd directories easier

philip1209 12y ago

We have an internal wiki page with custom alfred formulas for our company. "customer <email>" "domain <domain>" "logs <logs>"" It makes life for engineers, support, and sales much more efficient.

notduncansmith 12y ago
I wish there were enough Mac users at our company to make this worthwhile. Is your whole team on OS X?
- philip1209 12y ago
  No, but in general company laptops are macbooks. They play nicely with virtualized operating systems, SSHing into *nix servers, windows via bootcamp, etc. The Alfred formulas are shared more out of courtesy than a company need.

alialkhatib 12y ago

I actually feel like Vimium is nice even if you're not familiar with Vim. Or that was my experience. And when I later made a conscious effort to learn Vim's commands and use it more frequently, the navigation controls I had learned in Vimium made the learning curve less steep than I think it typically is for people first starting out.

ntonozzi 12y ago

Where can I find hop? All my search results talk about traceroutes.

IbJacked 12y ago
It looks like it might be this one: https://github.com/Cue/hop https://github.com/Cue/hop
- notduncansmith 12y ago
  That's the one indeed. Sorry for not providing a link!

lenage 12y ago

I also recommend autojump, it make cd directories easier