System Preferences §
- Trackpad: disable force touch, make tracking speed fast, disable natural scrolling
- Keyboard: key repeat rate fast, delay until repeat short
- Keyboard > Shortcuts > Screenshots: change the shortcut for “copy picture of selected area to the clipboard” to
⌘\ for ease (it’s a game changer trust me)
- Displays: disable automatically adjust brightness, disable true tone
- Desktop > Hot Corners: mission control, notification center, launchpad, put display to sleep
- Enable screen sharing permissions for Zoom
Apps §
- Remove everything from the dock
- Install VS Code, Sublime Text, Chrome, Spotify, Obsidian, Notion, Zoom
- Nice to haves: Klack, Vivid, Cron, Tailscale, Texts, Stats, Screen Studio, Rectangle, Warp, Raycast, Cyberduck, Heynote, Ollama, LM Studio
Terminal §
- Install command line tools:
xcode-select --install
- Don’t show login info:
touch .hushlogin
- Change zsh to bash:
chsh -s /bin/bash
- Get custom dotfiles:
git clone https://github.com/ishan0102/dotfiles.git
- Add SSH key for GitHub
- Disable visual bell