What's your favorite 'little' tool at the moment?
By little tool, I don't mean it took a small amount of effort, I mean it does one day-to-day, small task. For me it's probably @Xnapper . It allows me to take beautiful screenshots surrounded by stunning backgrounds in literally a few seconds, where as I used to spend time chucking my screenshots into Figma and playing with the padding to make them look nice. I can't even guess how much time this has saved me
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I used to jump between different apps and browser tabs for quick tasks, but now @Raycast handles it all instantly :)
TextExpander. Probably use it 100s of times a day. Still waiting for someone to add AI to something like that.
I use @TextExpander a ton, too. What would the AI part of it do? Like pre-send a prompt using something you copy via clipboard?
@sentry_co Glad to hear you are finding value with TextExpander. And you might be onto something with that AI idea! ;)
@sentry_co To Mike's hint, stay tuned! DM me if you'd like to join early testers.
@sentry_co never heard of it, what's the most valuable thing it does for you?
@leah_madden Been using it for 10+ years. The clue is i the name. It expands text. Instead of typing you just write an abbreviation. And hit tab. And it expands to a full snippet. You can also add macros to it. Like it highlight some text. and format it in a certain way, or you can be prompted to fill in textfields to complete more complex snippets. Great for coding, but also for typing emails, or things you write often. The brain can only store so many abrivations, So i guess I have 10-20 That I am able to remember. But with AI this could increase I think. It works across macOS. So you can use them in any app. also for iOS. But iOS also has its own snippet manager. So I use the native one in iOS.
Purposeful Poop
it's not super little, but I used to spend a lot of time generating "reports" that I would share with my friends in the fire community. I made a tool that turns my bank and cc statements into a dashboard. It makes it quick to share views like my per/month grocery spend in 2024, or see how my credit card spend keeps going up each year...
I use a plugin for Chrome a million times a day called Immersive Translator. It will add the language I want underneath the original text of a web page and the two languages can understand each other. It's so convenient!
Definitely Shottr. The OCR snapshot tool has become a regular part of my workflow, even when designing.
@jeffrey_karl1 Came here to say @Shottr . It's so good!
For me, the little tool that’s been a lifesaver is the OneTab extension. It lets me save all my open tabs with one click and easily restore them later when I need to. As someone who constantly has 50+ tabs open (ADHD brain, anyone? 😅), it’s a game-changer for staying organized and not losing track of important pages.
minimalist phone: creating folders
ATM enjoying picture creation via @Visual Electric :)
I use a task management app called todo mate a lot. It has a simple function to manage small units of tasks and routines, and it helps me focus on the work I'm doing.
Screenshots are taken using the default Mac app, can you tell me what the main differences are when using Xnapper compared to this?
Purposeful Poop
Also came back here to say that this thread ultimately led to me installing Xnapper haha