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Best mac productivity apps 2020 — developer edition(part 1)

Rabin Poudyal
5 min readMay 26, 2020

(If you want to be more productive and are looking to become more organized, Congratulations!! I have some tips to help you..)

Disclaimer: Whatever tools or workflows I am about to explain in this article might not be the best for you; probably not the most optimized one for myself too until I find a new better option, but I can say these tools described below has been helping me to get more done than using vanilla MacBook setup for programming. If you have some better tooling or smoother workflow, don’t hesitate to leave the comments so that other readers might want to try them too.

Enough disclaimer, let’s first start by customizing a boring terminal that comes with mac. I know most people don’t like it. People use it either because they are lazy to set up another one or they don't want any fancy features and they are complacent with what they have. But exploring new and better is what we have always been doing as humans and from my experience let me start explaining my personal preference on these tools.

  1. Kitty

Kitty is my personal favorite terminal emulator. Here is why:

  • You can get similar functionality as tmux out of the box,
  • Fast(has GPU rendering) and minimal too,
  • Keybinding focused()

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Rabin Poudyal
Rabin Poudyal

Written by Rabin Poudyal

Software Engineer, Data Science Practitioner. Say "Hi!" via email: rabinpoudyal1995@gmail.com or visit my website https://rabinpoudyal.com.np

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