In this short article, I want to share with you three little app that helps a lot when you're writing a book.
Pastebot
Pastebot is an app to keep track of everything you copy and paste.
It has a few features that are especially useful to me:
Keeps a history of all the things you copy.
You can create a custom "regex" search and replace it when pasting a text (super helpful for me to transform an internal URL from Podia into one that is shareable).
Auto capitalise text like a title when you paste.
This app is also helpful for any other knowledge worker who works with tons of text. An example of a copy and paste is where some text is replaced automatically.
Hazel
Hazel is a little app that automatically moves files around based on specific rules. For example, this app does these automatic things for me:
Move all screenshots after 1 minute to a screenshot folder and after 24 hours, remove them from that folder
Move any file that arrives in my download folder to the trash after 24 hours.
Empty my trash bin every few days to save storage on my mac.
An example of simple automation made with Hazel.
Bettersnaptool
Bettersnaptool is a window manager for the Mac. It's beneficial as I can, with just keyboard shortcuts, place windows on my big monitor. I can easily have two apps side by side or have two apps on the left and one big on the right, and so on. My screen at the time of writing this blog post
Once you'll use one of these three little apps for a few weeks, you'll say to yourself: "Oh my god, how did I do it before?!"
