Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac
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Anyone remember PowerToys for Windows 95? This remind me of that. Advanced features that were there that just needed to be exposed.
Of course in this case it's not from Apple itself, but still a great idea!
It's active again, they've open sourced and reinvested in it with new utilities.
I think some such utilities for classic MacOs predate PowerToys and there are a bunch for osx-y macOS so the there's a long proud history of these from not-Apple.
Sindre is also the author of Actions, which is basically this but fo iOS Shortcuts. Dude lives entirely off of open source, afaik. Massive respect.
Wow, this guy has a ton of other menu bar apps. So many features I have thought about but never bothered to build/find. Awesome!
I'll have to give this a shot. I switched from a windows machine to a Mac for a better dev experience on my personal projects, but I miss a lot of the windows file explorer shortcuts
> Unminimizes an app’s windows when activated
Does it mean I can bring back 1password with 1 click instead of 3? (If I forget MacOS is stupid and minimise it) That would be amazing!
Why do you need 3 clicks to bring back 1Password after minimising it? On my mac, it behaves like any other minimised window. A single click on its Dock icon does the trick.
Personally though, I always close it - as it's trivial to call it with ⌘\ .
> A single click on its Dock icon does the trick.
Some of us take it personally if we cannot do everything using only the keyboard.
I use a Mac now (because Windows + Windows admins always manage to mess up something and ny current employer doesn't support Linux as wholeheartedly as my last one) and I like it a lot better than last time I used a Mac back in 2009 - 2012 but there is no doubt in my mind that classic Windows UX and several Linux DEs (while not as polished) have much better UX for keyboard people like me.
And yes:
I have used almost every mainstream desktop environment from 1994 - now (except versions of Mac before 2009 and between 2009 and until somewhere a couple of years ago).
> Some of us take it personally if we cannot do everything using only the keyboard.
It doesn’t help your 1password problem here, but there is a changeable shortcut to put focus on the Dock which then can be navigated with the arrow keys and space/return: (fn) + Control + F3
Must be activated in System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Keyboard.
Those are rather old shortcuts, at least since 2003 or so. But I just found out that Control+F2, which puts the focus in the menu bar, doesn’t seem to work for me. Maybe the builtin display brightness, maybe another app? I changed the shortcut to something custom and now it works.
> Some of us take it personally if we cannot do everything using only the keyboard.
That's fine but how is that related to how many clicks it takes to bring it back up after it's minimised - which is what this thread is about?
If you want to activate 1Password from the keyboard, minimised or not, just use the global keyboard shortcut ⌘\ .
On the dock, yes. But if you minimise, try clicking the icon in the bar instead. (If I don't expect it to be minimised, I'm not going to start looking in the dock)
In that case, it's 2 clicks whether it's minimised or not: once on the bar icon, once on "Open 1Password". At least that's how it is for me.
Occasionally it doesn't do anything for me and I have to use the dock anyway.
If you're comfy with a bit of code and there's a nagging thing you wish you could change on your Mac, Hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) is a great tool.
For example, I use it to add a shortcut that completely hides or shows Zoom's on screen controls while sreen-sharing, but in a way they don't pop up again if you press ESC (I'm a developer, so ESC is kinda a necessary key).
This one looks polished, if the nag it's bothering you is covered.
Macos shortcuts are ... more than weird. It's like someone said: we need shortcuts, and then took a random shortcut generator. Control + Command + Shift + 3/4 to do a selection-box screenshot.
Which one is save to clipboard and which one is save to disk? Who knows.
And then there is inconsistency. You're in Finder, where 'return/enter' (for some reason) invokes file rename. Cmd+O to open.
But in a file selector window, say Numbers, 'return/enter' actually opens the file...
Ah yes, I have motor memory with my left "claw" to create a drag screenshot on mac os