Just over a year ago 1Password introduced a new Safari extension - and a new keystroke to activate it. I changed the shortuct for LaunchBar and - sure enough - LaunchBar started working. But then it occurred to me that perhaps 1Password was responding when the option key was down. At first I thought that I'd just not gotten the option key down, since it didn't happen all the time. Occassionally I'd notice that 1Password would activate on that keystroke, even though its Fill Login shortcut is cmd-\. I'm not sure when I first noticed that, when I used that shortcut in Safari, any selected field in Safari would no longer hold the insertion point, but the annoying result was that LaunchBar couldn't paste into Safari. LaunchBar's Show clipboard history command ues command-option-\ as its shortcut by default. It keeps track of up to 40 of your last copy operations so you can paste any of them as needed. LaunchBar gives me access to applications, files, and more with just a couple keystrokes.Īlthough I take advantage of only a small subset of LaunchBar's features, one that I use every day is Clipboard History. 1Password is a password vault that synchronizes (via Dropbox, another "must have" utility) my web logins and other information across my Macs and iOS devices. They're two of a handful of utilities that immediately get installed any new Mac I get. I've been a user of 1Password and LaunchBar for a long time. Syncing with Mac Byword for writing used to use TaskPaper for task management but it's being phased out, so starting to switch to Todo.txt Dropbox TextExpander and 1Password And for Fun! Paper for doodling and sketching Netflix for Netflixing and Toca Boca makes great educational games for kids.What do those three things have in common? A default keyboard shorcut that - when activated - will have you scratching your head and wondering where to look for the culprit. The Economist has a fabulous digital magazine Miscellaneous GoodNotes is awesome for stylus-based note-taking and sketching, and I'm starting to use Paper with Pencil, which has great palm-rejection, for taking hand-written notes. Keyboard Maestro for shortcut macros TextExpander for keyboard snippets and Hazel for automatic file management Miscellaneous Of course, Dropbox and 1Password and SuperDuper! for non-Time Machine back-up iPad/iPhone Apps Reading PDF Expert for reading and commenting on all things PDF Reeder for RSS feeds (via Feedly). work/home/mobile) Automation AppleScript for scripting ( Learn AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X is the best reference I have come across) LaunchBar for launching/searching/etc. Utilities Window Management Zooom for window movement and sizing Stay for restoring/resizing windows when moving to different monitor settings (e.g. One of the most popular entry on that blog is “Reshaping Panel Data Using Excel and Stata”. I no longer maintain it, but it is archived here. Trying to do more in R and Mathematica How-Tos In graduate school, I maintained a blog on various statistics and computing how-tos. Statistics Packages Stata most of the time trying to get myself back into R Graphs and Diagrams Charts are mostly generated in Stata but sometimes with OmniGraphSketcher diagrams are always generated with OmniGraffle Professional. Markdown Utilities Various tools by Brett Terpstra for formatting tables and paper structuring and use Marked 2 for previewing Markdown-based writings. Pandoc should be able to handle processing citations in RTF and Word documents, which was the only reason I had switched to Papers. (Papers 3 nuked the link between each bibliographic entry and the PDF file for it, and their support staff has not responded to my request for support.) I'm slowly transitioning back to BibDesk. I have been woefully regretting that 17-month stint in recent weeks. Citation Management I previously transitioned from BibDesk to Papers. MacTeX is well maintained, and once installing the full distribution, I don't have to worry about any of the TeX/LaTeX background stuff. Typesetting The front-end for plaint text documents converted into LaTeX format is TeXShop. I write in the pandoc dialect of Markdown and convert them to other formats as necessary. Pandoc can take take inputs from pretty much any source (e.g., docx, txt, md, latex, pdf, etc.) and output them to pretty much any destination (e.g., docx, txt, md, latex, pdf, etc.). I just switched over to using John MacFarlane’s pandoc. Text Processing I used to use MultiMarkdown by Fletcher Penney. Stata 13 package for Sublime Text by Andrew Heiss provides nice coloring and incorporation with Stata. Writing Text Input Sublime Text is my new text editor of choice.
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