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17 links, first saved April 4, 2011, latest January 11, 2026.

• A quick Markdown Fixup update - BrettTerpstra.comJan 11, 2026 WT337

  Terpstra makes some powerful Markdown tools. I wasn't familiar with this one.

• Mind Maps and Marked 2 - BrettTerpstra.comMar 30, 2021 WT180

  I have both Mindnode and Marked 2 but I had no idea you could put them together like this. I tried it out and it works really slick. I could see this being a great way to draft a…

• BunchFeb 8, 2021 WT173

  Bunch recently added scheduling and other new features that caught my eye. I used Bunch to launch applications and had stopped in favor of some AppleScripts. However, Bunch's new…

• Thinking faster with mind maps - BrettTerpstra.comJan 11, 2020 WT131

  Mind maps are a tool that I feel I could get a lot more value out of so I enjoyed this take from Brett Terpstra. I have all the same tools that he has, and this article helped me…

• Fish (shell) fun: event handlers - BrettTerpstra.comOct 15, 2019

  I switched to fish shell a while ago, after over a decade of zsh , but I haven't gotten all geeked out on this stuff. Yet. 🤓

• Bunch, a batch app launcher for your Dock - BrettTerpstra.comMay 14, 2019 WT106

  For years I've used a script in AppleScript called "Launch Apps.scpt" and when I get to work I run it to start the dozen or so applications that I run all day, every day. Bunch is…

• The ultimate guide to DuckDuckGo - BrettTerpstra.comMar 11, 2019 WT97

  There are a bunch of DuckDuckGo things I didn’t know even existed. The ! searches are a neat feature. 👍🏻

• Best of 2017: iOS Apps - BrettTerpstra.comJan 1, 2018 WT35

  Terpstra is a developer and power-user and I always find I learn or discover something when I read the write-ups of apps that folks like this use.

• Quantify everything with Exist.io custom tracking - BrettTerpstra.comAug 4, 2017 WT13
• Best of 2016: (Almost) all of the iOS favorites - BrettTerpstra.comFeb 27, 2017
• A new email trick with SaneBox, Spark, and OmniFocusJun 23, 2016

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• Arq 5 gets a big speed boostApr 12, 2016

  I use Arq with a couple of external drives connected to a Macminicolo box (the same one that hosts this site), so I don’t have any additional monthly fees for backing up multiple…

• A look back at 2015: My Top Mac AppsFeb 17, 2016

  Here are some of my most-used Mac apps that were new or received major updates in 2015. As usual, it was a great year for software and I couldn’t possibly write up all of the…

• Improve your communication with TextExpanderDec 10, 2015

  TextExpander improves your communication. Add consistency and efficiency to your emails and messages, and prevent embarrassing errors.

• Vacuuming your Mail.app index still works wondersSep 17, 2012

  Great tip for keeping Mail.app running tip-top. There was atip on Hawk Wings long ago which showed how to speed up Apples Mail.app by vacuuming the SQLite3 index. Ihadnt tried it…

• Some of my favorite Mac apps in 2011 - Brett TerpstraJan 1, 2012
• Mirror your Pinboard bookmarks with OpenMeta tagsApr 4, 2011

  I wrote a script a while back that would watch for changes in my Delicious bookmarks and mirror new ones to .webloc files on my drive, applying OpenMeta tags so that they were…