Rahul’s Mac Productivity Suite

this is a refresh of a guide i wrote a few years ago

Battle Tested

1. Raycast - the best way to use your mac

raycast does so much for you, i would just play with it and see what it can do. i highly recommend the clipboard manager (i have it set to cmd + shift + c). raycast is also awesome to build custom extensions, would highly recommend this too.

i could go on for days on great extensions here, but would just say explore and you will find so much.

2. Window management - unfortunately macos natively sorta sucks at this

three options:

• Rectangle - open source pretty good!
• Magnet - i use this, mostly cause i paid before i found rectangle
• use raycast itself? i do this too, but i use it differently and would recommend one of the above for dragging bounding boxes which raycast does not support

3. Warp.dev - personally really like it as a terminal, heard great things about ghostty haven't tried yet. personally like an oh my zsh config with starship here but anything sorta works. would recommend adding the zsh-autosuggestions plugin

4. for the love of god use cursor, i don't think this needs to be said! setup c . to open cursor in the current directory.

not the biggest vim user but would recommend using, and have relative lines for sure and add the following to your vscode settings, makes copy paste work

{
 "vim.smartRelativeLine": true,
  "vim.handleKeys": {
		"<C-c>": false,
		"<C-x>": false,
		"<C-v>": false,
    "<C-a>": false,
  },
}

5. Arc - it is great!

6. the chatgpt app is good, claude desktop kinda sucks - haven't tried perplexity desktop.

7. cron/notion calendar is decent calendar, i like it! don't love it but does the job

8. screenshots: macos default is good, but cleanshot x is amazing (would recommend through setapp) but also shottr is free alternative that is decent

9. notch: please get bartender (through setapp) or dozer free alternative

10. stats: istat menus is good (through setapp) or stats is free alternative

11. mail: superhuman is amazing, expensive but amazing. looking forward to trying notion mail.

12. beeper! this app is so fucking good - it connects all your messaging apps into one and there is a new version too beta here

13. search: not as much a mac app perse but still fun search tool i use is pplx-bangs which let's me route between google, perplexity and exa. you can customize defaults and routers for yourself!

for writing i use notion, but honestly anything works.

Extras/Config

• please for the love of god, turn this off - it is the worst thing ever

• turn this off too, this for some dumb reason takes port 5000 and keeps restarting very annoying.

here is a more clear view of all my setapp apps, would really recommend mission control plus and popclip, apart from the ones mentioned.

• setup sudo to use touch id, don't remember the exact steps ask chatgpt but you can easily do this - it is great!

• drag your download folder to your dock and set it to fan and sorted by date modified, it is very good to drag stuff from there

will update this guide as i remember more things