Feek's macOS useful tools, utilities and applications thread

MacRS4 · 23 Dec 2021 at 11:08

PathFinder is pretty good. It also gives you copy performance - this is copying to my NAS for example. You can switch it between 1000 and 1024 too!

ChrisD. · 23 Dec 2021 at 12:01

10 Gbit network @MacRS4?

Feek · 23 Dec 2021 at 12:08

john_smith said:
Oh and Treesize, I use that almost daily on Windows machines.

DaisyDisk.

MacRS4 · 23 Dec 2021 at 12:54

ChrisD. said:
10 Gbit network @MacRS4?

Aye, on a QNAP something or other.

ChrisD. · 23 Dec 2021 at 12:55

Nice, I have 10 Gbps network as well but neither of my Mac's have it spec'd.

ChrisD. · 23 Dec 2021 at 17:30

This is how iStat Menus looks for monitoring the network, you can click on it and it has a drop down to show you which adaptor and process is using the links.

Si. · 4 Jan 2022 at 02:43

MacRS4 said:
PathFinder is pretty good. It also gives you copy performance - this is copying to my NAS for example. You can switch it between 1000 and 1024 too!

I installed Pathfinder but it doesn't show me the copy speed.. is there a setting somewhere I need to enable for this?

MacRS4 · 12 Mar 2022 at 18:16

I use PathFinder. Supports tabs, multiple windows, file copy performance and stuff. I quite like it but I don't think it's as nice to use as explorer.

I can't find anything in settings to enable it I don't think?? Just appears in the top right.

john_smith · 12 Mar 2022 at 18:18

MacRS4 said:
I use PathFinder. Supports tabs, multiple windows, file copy performance and stuff. I quite like it but I don't think it's as nice to use as explorer.

Thanks, i'll check it out.

whiskycycle · 14 Mar 2022 at 15:46

MacRS4 said:
I use PathFinder. Supports tabs, multiple windows, file copy performance and stuff. I quite like it but I don't think it's as nice to use as explorer.

I can't find anything in settings to enable it I don't think?? Just appears in the top right.

You tried the new version, where they've moved to a subscription model now? Trying to decide whether I "power use" it enough to upgrade and am still very much in the contemplation phase. Fantastical/Flexibits was definitely worth the change for me, but not sure here.

Feek · 14 Mar 2022 at 15:48

I use Default Folder X, mainly just for one of the things it does, really ought to harness its power more than I do.

MacRS4 · 15 Mar 2022 at 06:39

whiskycycle said:
You tried the new version, where they've moved to a subscription model now? Trying to decide whether I "power use" it enough to upgrade and am still very much in the contemplation phase. Fantastical/Flexibits was definitely worth the change for me, but not sure here.

I have SetApp for next to nothing via Uni, and it comes as part of that. I'm doubtful I'd pay a subscription specifically for Pathfinder tbh.

Feek · 15 Mar 2022 at 08:49

MacRS4 said:
SetApp

SetApp is a great concept, I just wish it had appeared about ten years earlier because I've already bought most of the stuff within SetApp that I'd find useful so there's little point it me subbing to it now.

whiskycycle · 15 Mar 2022 at 14:03

Feek said:
SetApp is a great concept, I just wish it had appeared about ten years earlier because I've already bought most of the stuff within SetApp that I'd find useful so there's little point it me subbing to it now.

That’s my gotcha really. Bought so many apps individually over the years… will have a poke at SetApp again.

Jimbeam3678 · 30 Mar 2022 at 07:01

Didn't seem worth making a new thread, but what do people use for note taking on a Mac? I like Onenote as a concept but the lack of being able to make a true backup of the notes has worried me for years. Is there anything out there which people use?

Thanks for any help

Si. · 30 Mar 2022 at 07:31

I’ve always used OneNote stored on OneDrive. Have been for a lot of years. You can manually back up the OneNote files if you feel you have to

Jimbeam3678 · 30 Mar 2022 at 08:06

Si. said:
I’ve always used OneNote stored on OneDrive. Have been for a lot of years. You can manually back up the OneNote files if you feel you have to

Can you? How do you do this? I've not usually that precious about backing things up but my Onenote had about 15 years of notes..

squerble · 30 Mar 2022 at 08:22

Jimbeam3678 said:
Didn't seem worth making a new thread, but what do people use for note taking on a Mac? I like Onenote as a concept but the lack of being able to make a true backup of the notes has worried me for years. Is there anything out there which people use?

Thanks for any help

I've been using Bear for my notes, as I like the structured tagging you can see (creating trees of tags, and can have several tags per note). It's a markdown text editor, though a huge 2.0 upgrade is currently in the works to make it a nicer experience, things like hiding all the markdown when not editing notes etc. If I need something quickly I'll just use Notes.app and then transfer in the future if it's worth keeping.

Si. · 30 Mar 2022 at 08:49

Jimbeam3678 said:
Can you? How do you do this? I've not usually that precious about backing things up but my Onenote had about 15 years of notes..

OneNote usually saves into MyDocuments on PC, not sure about Mac. You also have the option on the file menu to export to a OneNote archive which is a single file with all data.

Si. · 30 Mar 2022 at 08:50

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/back-up-notes-f58b34b0-611d-435e-87fa-7942a1767af4