Formerly IT Check-Up OSX

Up-to-date list of applications for macOS.

General

• Try out disabling notifications, either only Slack or all (System settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb)

Slack

• Shortcuts
  • CMD + K or Ctrl + K: Switch channel
  • CMD + Shift + K or Ctrl + Shift + K: Create a new direct message
  • CMD + J or Ctrl + J: move focus to first unread message
  • End: move to the most recent message
  • ↑: Edit last message
  • Alt + Click: Mark message as unread

Gmail

• Try out Inbox Zero
• Enable compact display mode
• Shortcuts
  • ? View shortcuts
  • c Compose
  • r, a Reply/reply all
  • e Archive
  • j, k (also ↑ , ↓) Navigate
  • v Add label
  • gi Go to your inbox
  • x select message
  • f forward email
• Extensions
  • Pipedrive for Gmail [Chrome only]
  • Streak (send later, snooze, ...) [Chrome only]
  • Inbox Pause: Pause your inbox to prevent yourself from checking your emails too often
  • Inbox When Ready: Hide your inbox to prevent yourself from being distracted when drafting emails
  • Yet Another Mail Merge: Send mass emails using spreadsheets [Chrome only]
  • Boomerang: Schedule emails to be sent later
  • Multi Email Forward (Cloud HQ): can forward emails individually or as one email, includes attachments

Browser

• Define custom search engines to quickly search on a specific page (Chrome, Firefox). Redundant with Alfred searches, see below.
• docs.new and sheets.new creates a new Google doc and Google spreadsheet respectively. You can also bookmark those and add them to your bookmark bar for easy access.