mac-setup.md

Mac setup

General settings

• trackpad -> tap to click, increase tracking speed, turn off force click
• edit the menu bar
  • show battery percentage in the menu bar
  • hide spotlight search
• turn off hot corners
• bluetooth > show in menu bar
• enable automatically hide and show dock
• disable "show recent applications in Dock"

Finder preferences

• general -> change default finder window
• sidebar
  • turn off recent tags
  • turn off icloud drive
  • turn on home folder
• advanced
  • show all filename extensions
• view
  • show path bar
• change all to show items as list

Menu bar preferences

• battery -> show percentage
• now playing -> don't show in menu bar

Keyboard shortcuts

• remove "omw" from text
• shortcuts > launchpad & dock > toggle "dock hiding on/off" in shortcuts -> launchpad & dock
• use raycast for windows and hotkeys

Configure Brave

• set the search engine to Google
• customize new tab page
• turn off "offer to save passwords" and "auto sign in" in brave://password-manager/settings

Set up dev environment

• install xcode command line tools by entering git in the terminal, and following the prompts
• see README.md