A few new tools I’ve been loving recently. A bit heavy on the Chrome extensions, but they seem to work well together without issue.

• Raycast – I went hunting for a faster replacement to Spotlight (besides being sluggish, it never seems to match the search term to the thing I want). I found this via @mikekarnj‘s newsletter and I am loving it so far. Extensible via scripts and extensions, and super fast too. I can’t believe it’s free (before I found this one, I went looking for open-source versions).
• Rectangle – A free, open-source window manager to replace my old one.
• Tweaks for Twitter – A Chrome extension that gives you a cleaner Twitter web view.
• Simplify – A Chrome extension (worth paying for, if you ask me) that gives you a cleaner, faster Gmail. Designed by @leggett who worked on Google Inbox.
• Vimium – A Chrome extension that bring vim keybindings to the browser so you can do things like search and jump to links without your hands leaving the keyboard.

See previous cool tools from 2019 and 2018, some of which I’ve since replaced with better versions (e.g., Rectangle remembers your placements on multiple displays and also has backward-support for Spectacle, which I was using previously).