Fletcher Penny’s MultiMarkdown Composer just received a huge update and it’s worth a look. It feels like a complete rewrite with quite a few improvements. There is now a live HTML preview and a mind blowing live table of contents for reorganizing large documents. Just drag a section in the TOC inspector panel and all of the text is moved with it, including subsections.
There are also some really great little preference tweaks for anyone that really lives in Markdown.
DEVONtech had to remove their free app “Grid” from the App Store so they made it open source instead. It’s now on Github.
This is another great solution from Chris Sauve at Pxldot. My biggest complaint about Evernote is that extracting all of my data was a chore and produced a pile of unusable garbage at the end. Tools like this make me feel better about using Evernote for anything other than temporary scraps of data.
I’m not sure where to start with describing this tutorial by Patrick. Really, really great stuff. It’s got Markdown, macro organization, scripting and tips. This is the definitive guide on the planet. Nice work.
If you’re not following RocketInk, then there may be something wrong with your Netscape browser or AOL connection.
Simperium, the makers of the Simplenote iOS app and the Simplenote syncing service, have been acquired by Automattic, the makers of WordPress.org. I’m cautiously hopeful for this change.
I miss Simplenote desperately. It was great for several years but this past year it took a serious nosedive.1 It chewed through my data and lost new notes and old notes indiscriminately without any notice from Simperium or the apps they make. It’s that lack of transparency that caused me to finally kill off my subscription.
I’m really loving the stuff that Patrick is putting out at his new site RocketINK. This article about his nvALT setup is a good example. There are a number of nice little tricks and just basic “setup” porn.
CopyLess is a clipboard utility for the Mac. My biggest annoyance with Alfred (1 and 2) is that it strips my text formatting on the Clipboard. I regularly use the Keyboard Maestro clipboard manager but CopyLess is a nice replacement.
CopyLess is activated with a hot key and shows a list of all recent clipboard activity. I like the way CopyLess displays the source app icon of each clip.
There is an Application Filter option to exclude CopyLess from capturing from user defined applications.
Default Folder X is one of those system utilities I never think about but immediately miss when on someone else’s Mac. The “favorites” are just one of those little touches that make DFX worth the $35 price.
Favorites are configured in the DFX preference pane and can be configured with a system wide hotkey to access the folder at any time.
Now, every Open and Save dialog has easy access to the favorites through the side bar of the DFX window chrome.
I don’t think I’ve linked to this before, but Philippe Martin has one of the original and best pages of Keyboard Maestro tips.1 I love the formatting of the example macros. It’s clearly a labor of love and must have taken ages to compile. The whole thing beats the pants off of the native Keyboard Maestro documentation.
I just wish it had better references and attribution. I know I’ve seen these before and I would really like to know the original sources.
I forced myself to drop Launchbar and try out Alfred 1. I miss Launchbar. However, the Alfred 2 beta started last week and I like where it’s going. The beta is already excellent and I’m looking forward to some truly unique and powerful workflows, like this one from Don Southard.
His workflow shows off some of the very cool things that can be done with the new Alfred 2 workflow system.
