How I Setup My Mac So It Doesn’t Ruin My Life

After 1000s of hours working on MacOS, this is the best way to set up your new Mac to stay productive.

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[ninevolt]

hot corners while holding Command and Option-clicking the time to toggle Do Not Disturb are life-changing. thanks for this!

[farzadjahanfard]

Switched to arc literally 3 days a go and its amazing 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[cantfindausername]

Rarely do I pay these types of videos any attention but I after following this one I have to admit this has eliminated so many distractions for when I'm trying to be productive

[emiliobrambilla-zx]

the hot corner + cmd is amazing, thank you!

[BrandonShi]

This is insane stuff man!! Almost every tip was great,

[Technotiic]

Awesome video bro, having a clean desktop is just 🔥. Congratulations on 26K subs!!

[Miguel-fmxh]

I nearly cried when I saw there was an option to deactivate "show items on desktop". I never even imagined such a function

[joshdax]

I love this. most of the settings you had I also applied it to my 1week old MacBook Air m2. so intuitive with my set up now

[Rob-mqrc]

I've been using macs for coding since 2015 and as nerdy as I can be, but figuring out, that "desktop" hot corner actually shows every hidden icon there, while in Shortcuts such feature is not available, let alone holding command without any hint, that this will help...shish. You did an amazing job. Made my setup 1% better. I was just going to the desktop folder, but this is much better.

[milicamilic]

Literally feels like I made the video! So glad that know someone who uses practically all my hacks for focus. So many people talk about iPad and how it's not good at multi-tasking and I'm over here Purposefully stacking windows one in front of the other to focus

[puhgeh]

you can toggle between same app windows using cmd backtick

[tamakunay]

5:39 for me to get organized i partitioned my harddrive then use that partition and do all my folder management there, and OS related stuff in the other partition.
I see you have 4tb there :) 😊

[enginar]

Great tips. I've been using Alfred so long that that's second nature to me now so Raycast didn't work out as well for me. I also use Brave rather than Arc, but most of the other tips I use a lot.

[prodbywuski]

Love you for this bro! The productivity of my device skyrocketed already, and I'm loving my m3 pro even more. Basic things like this on windows was taken for granted, but I enjoy mac so much that it hurt not having some of these natively. God bless!

[navixaxa]

Ngl, your Wallpaper Pack is really, really good.

Apart from Oliur/ Ultralinx's Gradient Wallpaper Pack, I've never ever purchased stuff like this.

Looks like I'm gonna make an exception for your pack [featured in this video] lmao.

[Matthew-fg]

Hey Cole, this is an excellent video. I've subscribed. I was wondering what the time reminder was that you were using?

[icymaj]

hey man - first day Mac user here! I found this video which has helped a lot; switching to a new operating system for the first time in my life is quite something lol. I tried to run the commands for removing the delay while keeping the animation with hiding the dock automatically, but the animation doesn't work. It's instant now but I can't get the animation to work anymore, restoring defaults also doesn't revert it back to what it was like before. I'm using an m3 pro, if that has to do anything with it. loved this video btw :)

[PiotrOstrowski-hs]

yabai + skhd >>>>

the setup is nice but does not fix the issue that osx has, which is slow transitions

with yabai and skhd for tile management you can jump with shortcuts to whatever window is required

of course, on top I have alacritty as my terminal with neovim and tmux ready to multiplex and loaded with lsp extensions

big recommend if you want to get hacky with your setup

[DJ-Alcoholics]

Wow Linear Mouse changes everything, finally i can use a normal mouse!!!

[BrendanShephard]

Re. the single thing on your screen at once. I quite like Stage Manager for this tbh. You can also group things if you wanted to do the side-by-side tiling with two apps.