Comment by kcartlidge | Hacker News Reader

Comment by kcartlidge | Hacker News Reader

Loads of little things, but you specifically asked for daily use so:

- Rectangle for window management (I appreciate you have Magnet and tastes differ)

- MarkEdit is an excellent (free) Markdown editor

- Highland 2 (not free) for more long-form Markdown writing as it can handle normal Markdown files and feels more polished than similar tools (especially the document map)

- VLC as I watch a lot of box sets and it's better than the Apple options

- SourceTree for source control (not as good as Git Extentions on Windows but more to my tastes than the VS Code plugins, Fork, or GitKraken for example)

- BitWarden as I'm cross-platform so don't want to rely on the Apple Keychain

- Authy for two-factor authentication - not the Google, Microsoft, or similar option as I don't want to be tied to a tech giant account that can get switched off

- PCloud (with encryption and a mapped drive) for the same cross-platform reason, plus again I don't want my backups tied to a tech giant account that can get switched off

- PGAdmin 4 for database management during development

- Keka for handling archives/zips as it usually handles files fine when Apple's archiver won't (eg some EPUBs when renamed to zip)

- Fastmail for being able to manage multiple custom domain emails, aliases, and even nameservers from a single (paid) user account (I'm aware it isn't a Mac app but I do often use Outlook from Office 2019 to access it despite the excellent web site)

Authy killed its desktop app, so you've gotta use their iOS version. Personally I switched to 1Password when they pulled that.

Tired of password manager apps, I started to keep my passwords in a locked note in the Notes app

With a simple cipher it's near impossible for anyone to use but you

I use OTP Auth both iOS and Mac apps available. Pro upgrade is dirt cheap.

Authy is dying. I moved to strongbox 4 years ago and never looked back. It’s Mac and iOS integrations are great!

Strongbox seems similar to 1Password. I’m considering both. Could you share some of the reasons that had you choose the former?

Strongbox had a one and done purchase option at the time (14.99).

They came out with an option a year or two ago for an upgraded version that was $99 for its lifetime. But I was migrated to that new product without paying.

Loved it so much I paid $99 for a copy for my wife. And have also tipped them a few times over the past few years. Not sure if 1pass has something similar but I do remember a sub model which I didn’t like.

Perfect, appreciate your response. I have been paying for 1password but don’t like the idea of losing access or functionality in my credit card expires for example.

I’m heavily invested in 1p for years now, but have been impressed by the new Apple Passwords app (in beta) - it’s nowhere near as advanced, but it implements like 90% of what you need including 2FA. I’m sticking with 1p for now but worth watching as well.

I can recommend IINA much more compared to VLC. It's so much more performant (like 4-5x times), has a macOS native UI, some features VLC is lacking, let you watch an unlimited amount of videos at the same time.

Thanks - I'll take a look.

Using Authy on desktop kinda kills it's 2fa purpose.

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