Category: Productivity

  • Restore Access to the Hidden MacOS or OS X Library Folder

    Restore Access to the Hidden MacOS or OS X Library Folder

    Apple hid the Mac OS X Library folder from users, but you can get it back.

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  • Count Characters and Words within Selected Text with Keyboard Maestro

    Count Characters and Words within Selected Text with Keyboard Maestro

    A simple Keyboard Maestro macro to display the character count and word count of selected text anywhere and everywhere on your Mac. For professional and amateur writers, copywriters, journalists, and many others.

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  • Truly Muting Email Conversations in Gmail

    Truly Muting Email Conversations in Gmail

    Gmail (and Mail in Google Apps for Business) offers the ability to mute conversations and keep them out of your way… But only if they’re certain types of conversations. The mute function fails to work on arguably the most annoying of conversations. Here’s a way to fix it so that mute actually mutes any thread.

  • Everyday Automation: Changing the Case of Text Within Code List Items

    Everyday Automation: Changing the Case of Text Within Code List Items

    Learn how to quickly change case or other transformations on parts of code list items without touching the other parts. The example in this tutorial converts country names—both instances of each country name in 202 list items in either the HTML or JavaScript versions—from ALL CAPS to Title Case without altering the case of the…

  • Count Characters within Selected Text with Keyboard Maestro

    Count Characters within Selected Text with Keyboard Maestro

    Instantly transform selected text into HTML list items wrapped in tags with this easy, efficient Keyboard Maestro macro.

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  • Convert to HTML Unordered List with Keyboard Maestro

    Convert to HTML Unordered List with Keyboard Maestro

    Instantly transform selected lines of text into a bulleted HTML unordered list with this super easy, efficient Keyboard Maestro macro.

  • Instant HTML List Items with Keyboard Maestro

    Instant HTML List Items with Keyboard Maestro

    Instantly transform selected text into HTML list items wrapped in tags with this easy, efficient Keyboard Maestro macro.

  • Figuring Out Saving to Specific Wunderlist Lists

    Figuring Out Saving to Specific Wunderlist Lists

    Wunderlist is a fantastic cross-platform to do and list-making app, but it’s so secular that getting tasks and items into it can be a giant pain for those who truly want to be productive. I’m trying to find a way to work around Wunderlist’s self-imposed isolation.

  • IFTTT Recipe: Followup on Starred Mail Reminder Digest

    If you use Google Apps Mail, as I do, or GMail, starring messages is a great way to mark them as important or for later followup. Get busy, however, and you could forget to about those starred messages. I created the following IFTTT recipe to send me a daily email digest of starred messages to…

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  • Visualizing My Cloud Storage and Uses

    Visualizing My Cloud Storage and Uses

    I built the below in Adobe Illustrator to visualize and compare the various cloud storage accounts I own. Click for full-sized 1280×1024 px image.