MACSTORIES COLLECTIONS

Reevaluating the Mac Utilities I Use (Part 2)

• John

Today, I’m going to wrap up my collection of Mac utilities I use with four more. A couple of things prompted this reevaluation. First, as I wrote about Bartender 4 for last year’s MacStories Selects awards, I realized that I wasn’t making the most of my menu bar, so I spent time not only reorganizing it but rethinking the kinds of apps I wanted to include in it. Second, I’m using Shortcuts for Mac, the Stream Deck, and BetterTouchTool more than ever, which led me to search for apps that fit better with those tools.

Any time you shift the fundamentals of how you work, I think this sort of survey of how apps fit into your process is valuable. With the exception of Forecast Bar, none of the apps below are completely new to me, but with my current setup, I’m getting a lot more out of all of them.