My wonderful MacOs

My list of application and configuration for my macbook pro :D background image : https://unsplash.com/photos/vRqcK5jydPg

Insprired from Nikita Voloboev wonderful list, I would love to make my own list. First for my personal purpose to go through and listing apps which I use, moreover, I would share my list for ones whom might see it is useful for them.

Note: Different from Nikita list which having many paid apps (they really wonderful if you can pay), my list will totally free to use (or having Commutity (free) Edition).

Contents

• My wonderful MacOs
  • Applications
    • Productivity
      • Trello
      • Dictionary
      • Transmission
    • Code
      • Visual Studio Code
      • Sublime Text 3
      • Vim
      • Hyperjs - terminal emulator
      • Tabby
    • Social
      • Telegram
    • Writing
      • Macdown
      • Notion
      • Obsidian
    • Design
      • Figma
    • Music
      • Spotify
      • Youtube Music
    • Images
      • GIF Brewery
    • Video
      • VLC
      • IINA
      • Davinci Resolve
    • Utilities
      • AppCleaner
      • Calibre
    • Browsers
      • Microsoft Edge (Chromnium version)
      • Arc
      • Google Chrome
      • Google Chrome Canary
      • Firefox
    • Password Manager
      • BitWarden
  • Command Line Apps
    • ncdu

Applications

Productivity

Trello

• Trello

Dictionary

• Dictionary

Dictionary on Mac can be access from spotlight search, which is very convenient. I use it all the time.

Here is Vietnamese instruction for adding Vietnamese-English dictionary

Transmission

• Transmission

Code

Visual Studio Code

• Visual Studio Code is a powerful code editor. After using Golang and VS Code supports it fully, so VS Code becomes my most favorite code editor. Fix macos key repeating:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

• I use Ayu theme for my VS Code

Sublime Text 3

• Sublime Text 3 is my second favorite code editor. It used to be my first favorite. However, vs code with its power take me away from Sublime Text.

Vim

• Vim I prefer using LazyVim for the macos

Hyperjs - terminal emulator

• Hyperjs is a great terminal emulator with tons of plugins for both productivity and entertainment also.
• I also use Ayu theme for Hyper. (Actually I love this color scheme, if possible, I will use this theme everywhere)

Tabby

• Tabby Open-source terminal emulator

Social

Telegram

• Telegram is a messaging platform which is very light-weight and extremely fast
• They allow custom sticker which is a lot
• Their bot api is powerful

Zalo

Writing

Macdown - (Not support Appe Sillicon)

• Macdown is a wonderful app for Mac which is perfectly clone from loved app Mou. However, Mou now is a paid software.

Notion

• Notion

Obsidian

Obsidian is a great writing app that supports markdown and graph

Design

Figma

• Figma

Music

Spotify

• Spotify

Images

GIF Brewery

• GIF Brewery

Video

VLC

• VLC

IINA

• IINA - beautiful video player which support many different video extensions

Davinci Resolve

Davinci Resolve - a great and free software for video editor.

Utilities

AppCleaner

AppCleaner, this app is very useful for uninstalling app from your Mac. You will need to do that many times.

Calibre

Calibre - very useful for reading, convert and edit your ebooks.

Browsers

Microsoft Edge (Chromnium version)

Microsoft Edge - since they release this version, I have set this as my default browser. First, because I don't want using too many product of a single company (like Goole). Moreover, Edge have better performance as I currently feels (and other online benchmark).

Google Chrome

Chrome

Google Chrome Canary

Chrome Canary

Firefox

Firefox

Password Manager

BitWarden

Bitwarden - I found this is the best solution for password manager cause it is open source, having applications for almost every platforms

Command Line Apps

ncdu

ncdu is a commandline tool to check the disk storage usage. You can install ncdu using homebrew: brew install ncdu

Programming Font

Nerd Fonts