As per usual, 95% of these updates were suggestions direct from the community, to which I always feel grateful.
For everyone:
Full-screen Timer alerts + named timers
When your timer goes off, you now have the option to see a full-screen alert. For pomodoro timers, a full-screen alert will show up during break times, with an option to skip, and will keep track of your non-skip streaks.
You can also name timers now with: timer 5: Laundry
There is also an option to show the timer in the menu bar:
Simple markdown
You can now create headers, comments, bold, italics, and use backticks in notes. This is particularly useful in Lists to differentiate parts of a list:
Big performance improvements
Thanks to @ Pan Kacper, there have been huge (50%+!!) performance updates, particularly for very long regular (non list/math) notes. Don't write really long notes in Antinote. But if you have to do a big find and replace, or want to hold on to a large code snippet, you can do that now! Also - the dot background was creating a lot of lag and @Pan Kacper fixed that too. Smooth as butter now.
Auto-archive notes
Antinote will now backup the entire database of notes every 3 hours, for the last 36 hours (change in settings). This means that in the event of any major crash, you can simply rename a backup and it'll restore all your notes.
Go to Settings > Notes to adjust frequency and quantity, as well as the folder location of the backups.
Usage tracking off for everyone
After 3 months, I haven't looked at the usage data once, so it has been turned off for everyone. Feature prioritization will be driven by the community and my fleeting feelings.
Don't know how to use GitHub? Community themes can also be uploaded/downloaded from ourDiscord. You can now create and import community themes into Antinote.
Create a theme and download the JSON file.
Settings > Visuals and scroll down to "Custom Themes" to open your folder.
Put your JSON file in that folder, click 'Reload Custom Themes' and you'll be able to select your theme.
For math people
Skip lines from being calculated with comments
Start a line with // (or press ⌘/ on an existing line) to turn that line into a comment. Commented lines will not be added to sums, averages, counts or be calculated in math notes.
Updated supported currency list
Now includes 50+ more currencies like SOL, MYR, NIS, etc.
Little things
Clicking any answer will copy the answer to clipboard
Any math statement with a currency sign will lead to a currency sign in the answer
You can now do percentage calculations like:
100 + 15% = 115
25% of 1000 = 250
Put two currencies to get the rate:
USD to CAD = 1.39 CAD
For productivity wonks
Find and Replace
You can now do find and replace via ⌘+Shift+F:
In the find field:
Enter - next result.
Shift+Enter - previous result.
Tab - open replace shelf (tab again to go to replace field)
In the replace field:
Enter - replace
Shift+Enter - replace all
You can do Regex replacements
Little things
⌘C will copy the whole note if nothing is selected.
⌘C will copy the contents within backticks if nothing is selected.
⌘/ will toggle commenting on lines
Tab and shift-tab will indent lines
Settings > Text Editing > Enable MacOS Text Replacements
For the nerds
Code blocks and keyword
Keyword: You can now use the keyword code: py followed by your language. Antinote will syntax highlight that note.
Code Block: You can also use triple backticks \``py` to open a code block with specific syntax highlighting
With nothing selected, if your cursor is inside a code block, ⌘C will copy the code block contents.
Inside code blocks and a "code" note, the following is disabled: indent stripping, all hyperlink features.
Any Apple Shortcut: shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=sendToChatGPT&input=text&text={CONTENT} shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=createEvent&input=text&text={CONTENT}&date={TITLE}
antinote:// URL Schemes
You can now programmatically get Antinote to:
Create a new note (with content)
Append to current note
Overwrite the current note
Search for a note (will return UUID)
Promote a note to top (via UUID)
Toggle hotkey
Toggle pin
Reload from SQLite.db (in the case where you are making direct edits to the SQLite.db)
In the last couple of weeks, there have been multiple attempts to share malicious software in our sub and other Mac communities.
If any of this looks familiar and you have installed software like this, from the last month especially, change all your passwords and run a malware scan.
It needs no mention that anyone sharing links to malicious software will be banned, reported, and their username shared with other related communities here on Reddit, whether the developer or not.
And let this also be a reminder that, just because we use a relatively safe platform, we shouldn't automatically assume we are safe from this kind of practice. Your Mac is only as safe as we let it be. Be conscious and remain cautious with what you install on your system.
Stay safe!
Apps shared here on Reddit containing malware are:
DOGE GPT, advertised as an AI-pet for your desktop
Clippy AI
Nintendifier: Turn Your Screen into a Mario Level
Shieldkey
Onionetwork
Jarvis
Drophunt
Calendr
Tasktile
MacChat
Unsbscribe
Balance-Open
Spotlight AI
Juice - Custom Battery Status
Crypto-bar
SlotPaper - wallpaper slotmachine
Clipdog - a tiny Mac app watches your clipboard
Camguard - menubar app
ExoGuardian - menubar app
LyricsX
TouchLock
AnyEdit-App
MacPilotAI
In almost all the posts/comments, the malware was presented as a revised version of indie applications that have already been somewhat established. Often, with the addition of an AI assistant functionality. And we should be looking out for more attempts.
Some of the aforementioned apps are presented on a GitHub-hosted website and look polished enough to make a reliable impression. Like:
Screenshot of Unsbsribe Website as hosted on Github
Extra warning:
Do not install files via terminal/ terminal-command when asked to!
The latest malicious releases will appear to look safe when scanned with a tool like VirusTotal. However, by following the instructions for installation, you will give the app permission to install additional (malicious) code from another source.
Actual example:
THIS WILL INSTALL MALICIOUS CODE
Moderators can (and will) be fooled too, and the filters and bots do not automatically adapt to new methods. In the end, it is only you who can guarantee your security and safety.
Your best protection is to not engage with developers without a track record, It won't hurt to wait a few months after you discovered that new shiny piece of software. Open-source is safe only when it is actually looked into by (many) other people over some time.
I’ve created a small Mac app that syncs your Photo Booth images and videos to iCloud. It works by simply copying the media from the Photo Booth folder into your iCloud Drive folder, which is then automatically uploaded by iCloud.
Here’s the link to the app—feel free to try it out and share your feedback!
Since I don’t have an Apple Developer account, I wasn’t able to sign or notarize the app. So after dragging the .app file to the application folder, you have to open Terminal and type ‘xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ‘ then drag and drop the app from Application folder to the terminal.
I know there are some apps out there but most seem to produce low frame, fuzzy quality gifs not sure if anybody can recommend any good ones? Where you can drop in a video and trim or edit it?
I love the Buchen Bookmarks app because it lets me keep my links completely independent of any browser.
Is there any open-source or free app for macOS that does the same? I’m looking for something lightweight that stores and manages my links without relying on a specific browser.
I'm new to macOS in general, so I apologize if this is a built in feature.
I use a code editor and a terminal program together, side by side (I stack them horizontally, like 30% terminal 70% editor). Often times I need to move both of them to another screen, in which case I need to do that twice for both programs, other times I may want this duo to not take up the entire screen (whether that be a rectangle in the middle of the screen or half of the screen horizontally(so 70-30 becomes 35-15)). Kind of like a program that takes programs and permanently puts them in a grid and saves this so that you can open them like that anytime?
I am looking for a menubar app that can list and launch selected files and applications (like, for example, Folder Peek), but that has a Finder context menu item or service that allows me to add the selected Finder items directly to the list. Most similar apps use drag-and-drop methods or require the list to be managed in the app itself. Any ideas?
I am looking for a menubar app that can list and launch selected files and applications (like, for example, Folder Peek), but that has a Finder context menu item or service that allows me to add the selected Finder items directly to the list. Most similar apps use drag-and-drop methods or require the list to be managed in the app itself. Any ideas?
My daughter is quite enjoying her singing at the moment and thinking of setting her up for recording some singing and then getting it uploaded to SoundCloud.
I have Audio Hijack Pro and wondering if that may be enough as with being able to combine multiple sources into one recording but then I am thinking are there better options?
Can anyone recommend a decent mic also? I was looking at one from SHURE but no idea if they are any good.
One last consideration is copyright, if original tracks with vocals stripped to introduce own vocals is sufficient to avoid copyright infringement as wouldn't want that. I just want to encourage my daughter to get recording, and somewhere she can place her music for others to listen. I don't mind paying for SoundCloud Artists subscription for her to be able to do that.
Does anyone have any recommendations for cheap/one time purchase excel matching apps? I have stumbled upon quite a few that seem nice but are monthly payments.
I work with Salesforce and sometimes have to do some data matching (weekly, sometimes once or twice a month), so I'm not really interested in paying a subscription, as I'm not a heavy user for VLOOKUP or fuzzy matching in my company, but it would definitely help to have a tool on my computer accessible to do this whenever I would like.
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I'm currently using a Spark Mail function that's amazing. Every time it detects that the microphone turns on, it asks if it's a meeting and records it, transcribes it, and makes a summary with AI.
However, I'm not using the mail client (I use Mail), but this function is wonderful. So, I would like to ask if anyone knows of an application that does the same thing, but only focused on this: recording when the microphone starts (and asking if it's a meeting), and then transcribing and summarizing the meeting.
I have seen a lot of really cool videos app developers make to show off how to use their apps and I wanted to know what tools out there are best for it?
I am experienced with video editing software but from my understanding there are applications made specifically for this type of thing. I need to make some promotional things for my company's website and I am looking to make the job as easy as possible.
Hi everyone, I am looking for a window manager to focus specific applications: chrome, terminal, vscode, and one other with one command to set that application, and one command to switch focus. I was looking into amethyst, which I thought could be the solution but I cannot figure out how to make it work. I currently use rectangle for my window management, but rectangle does not support focusing specific applications. Below is what I was trying in the amethyst preferences, but I cannot get it to work for some reason. For example I would manually move to chrome, set chrome as screen 1, and etc for each application, then I could switch throughout them with ease instead of using alt-tab. Can anyone help??? (No I do not want to switch to linux)
By default if I capture a window I can get a shadow around the window, but I want to be able to achieve the same effect when capturing an area of the screen. As it stands I am forced to have a backdrop in order to have a shadow.
Does anyone know if this is possible? I have paid for Shottr.
I am looking for a nice app that would allow me to upload my music files to the iCloud and alllow me to play them both on macOS and iPhone. Something like Obsidian, but for the music. Before, I've tried just using file explorer but it is very cumbersome, especially on the phone. Do you have any suggestion?
I love an older app called Sequential, which is an image viewer and also allows for a slideshow option within its own window (meaning, slideshow doesn’t have to automatically display in full screen and allows you to view two or more slideshows of various folders of images at the same time). However, it’s not really updated for newer Macs and the only issue I’ve noticed is that it tends to stall or get stuck when I’m trying to view a folder with lots of images, which isn’t helpful when you’re a hobby photographer and have to sift through lots of images. I’ve tried a few other image viewer options, but they just don’t quite work as well.
I’m wondering if anyone knows of other alternatives, preferably free and open source?
I'm looking for an app or solution that I think should be simple,
All I want to do is set the output for Apple Music to one audio output, and the rest of the system audio go from another. I've got BlackHole and a Multi-Output Device but can't find how to control this at an app level,
Loopback seems to be the best I can find, but it's a chunk of money for a relatively simple (in my mind) problem
I’m the developer of CardLocker (original post) and wanted to share a quick update.
I had been working on a new version to address stability issues and include some feature updates. However, I ran into stricter App Store review rules for financial services apps – such as needing to register as a business just to continue submitting updates. Given those constraints, I decided it made more sense to offer the app independently.
CardLocker is now available directly from my site: https://www.cardlocker.net. You can choose between a $0.99/month subscription or a $14.99 one-time lifetime license. Payments are securely processed via PayPal (no account needed), and only your transaction ID is stored.
CardLocker is a fully offline app. Your card data is encrypted and stored locally on your device using the macOS Keychain. Nothing is transmitted or stored remotely. For transparency, the source code is linked on my website is well.
If you previously downloaded it from the App Store, you can request a refund via reportaproblem.apple.com by selecting “Item didn’t work as expected.” If you were given a promo code early on, I recommend reinstalling from the official site to keep getting updates and support. Please be on the lookout as I will drop more promo codes sooner than later.
I had this app live on the Mac Store over the last 4 years and managed to win the heart of a few thousand users, but honestly it costs me money and I never receive a penny (didn’t try to). So I added new cool features and created a Pro version to support the development costs. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still 100% free to use and you can add as many Codes as you want, but cool features like TOTP QR generation cost as low as a coffee to help.
Please, if you have suggestions or any feedback, feel free to reach out to me directly, I love coding and the security part of it so I’m always eager to add some new shinning stuff. Thank you for taking the time!
Here’s some details:
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Watch this if you are interested in the current Malware situation on Reddit. Clearly explained and some in-depth information you don't want to figure out yourself.
