Brett’s Projects
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60 Mac Tips: Vol 1
60 Mac Tips: Vol 1
A multimedia book for iBooks, filled with screencasts to turn Mac users into Power Users
60 Mac Tips: Vol 2
60 Mac Tips: Vol 2
A multimedia book for iBooks, filled with screencasts to turn Mac users into Power Users
Markdown Video
Markdown Video
A video on Markdown produced for Peachpit's Learn By Video series
Marked 2
Marked 2
My primary commercial application, a Markdown previewer that updates live while you edit in your favorite text editor.
StretchLink
StretchLink
A Mac utility for expanding shortened urls from your menu bar, or automatically when you copy.
T-shirts
T-shirts
A selection of T-shirts designed by Brett, available through TeeSpring
The Shuttle
The Shuttle
A bit of hardware to make sure you never lose your Apple Remote again.
Free for all
The things I do when I'm not doing the things I get paid for. I give most of it away for free (donations accepted), so dig in and see if any of these projects can help your workflow or inspire some coding mad science of your own. You can find everything else on the Downloads page.
Answered
Answered
A browser bookmarklet for saving StackExchange answers to Markdown or directly to nvALT
AutoTag 2
AutoTag 2
Connect WordPress tags to the TextMate blogging bundle with auto-complete and suggestion features.
Brett's PopClip Extensions
Brett's PopClip Extensions
A collection of PopClip extensions for Markdown writing and more
Bytes
Bytes
A file size conversion Service.
Cheaters
Cheaters
The groundwork for building your own set of hotkey-triggered popup cheat sheets for use while you work.
CodeReminder
CodeReminder
A CLI to add a Reminders.app reminder and/or OmniFocus task so you don't forget about that repo you cloned to play with later
CoughButton
CoughButton
Turn your iPhone into a cough button for podcasting using a local, PHP-enabled web server.
doing
doing
A command line utility for keeping track of what you're doing and tracking what you did.
ExtraInfo
ExtraInfo
A service for attaching extra notes using wiki syntax across multiple apps
GrabLinks
GrabLinks
A bookmarklet for capturing Markdown links from any part of a web page
iTextEditors
iTextEditors
My unweildy chart showing over 70 iOS text editors with a comparison of features.
iTunesIcon
iTunesIcon
An application to quickly search and retrieve an icon for any iOS or Mac App Store app
jTag
jTag
Auto-tagging and tag manipulation for Jekyll/OctoPress blogs
KeyBindings
KeyBindings
My OS X KeyBindings experiments.
logr
logr
A bash utility for logging/debugging
Make A Date for Keyboard Maestro
Make A Date for Keyboard Maestro
A Keyboard Maestro macro that expands a date using natural language
Markdown QuickTags
Markdown QuickTags
A WordPress plugin for editing Markdown in the standard WordPress editor. Adds auto-pairing, smart lists, link conversions, render/preview in place and more. It’s pretty, too.
Markdown Service Tools
Markdown Service Tools
A collection of OS X Services designed to make writing Markdown text that much easier.
MarkdownEditing
MarkdownEditing
The barebones beginnings of a Markdown editing bundle for Sublime Text 2.
Marky the Markdownifier
Marky the Markdownifier
Marky turns your web pages into readable Markdown, stripping cruft and "Markdownifying" the html.
mdless
mdless
A utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in Terminal
na
na
"Next Action" script for command-line reading and writing of "@na" tasks in a TaskPaper format file. It can also run as a prompt hook and offer reminders as you cd.
nvALT
nvALT
A fork of Notational Velocity with full MultiMarkdown support and additional editing/interface features.
nvremind
nvremind
nvremind (pronounced "never mind") scans files for @remind tags and triggers reminders.
oTask
oTask
A command line interface for OmniFocus with natural language recognition and fuzzy string matching for projects and contexts.
Overtired
Overtired
Brett's podcast with Christina Warren on ESN.fm. Two ADHD nerds with lots to talk about.
Pinboard to OpenMeta
Pinboard to OpenMeta
Collect your Pinboard bookmarks as local webloc files that you can thumbnail, index and tag with OpenMeta for local searches.
Planter
Planter
Create directory trees instantly from tab-indented plain text templates.
PodTagger
PodTagger
Automated podcast ID3 tagger
PopMaker
PopMaker
A bookmarklet for capturing Markdown links from any part of a web page
QuickQuestion
QuickQuestion
My system for collecting knowledge in an easy-to-parse, memorable-to-search plain text format. It's a command line tool usable from LaunchBar and Alfred and compatible with nvALT.
reiki
reiki
An intelligent (and forgiving) shortcut for running complex Rake command line tasks
SearchLink
SearchLink
A nifty System Service for running various types of searches automatically as you work in Markdown, filling in the results as links without having to open a web browser.
Sideshow
Sideshow
A minimalist yet oversized jacket for Simplify.
Slogger
Slogger
Automatically log your online social checkins and activities to Day One or Markdown files.
Systematic
Systematic
Brett's podcast on ESN.fm, interviewing people from all walks of life about what makes them tick
TabLinks
TabLinks
Safari Extension to save all open tabs as a Markdown list
TagBak
TagBak
A command line tool for storing and restoring OS X tags on files.
TextExpander Tools
TextExpander Tools
A set of tools and snippets for TextExpander with a special interface that lets you subscribe or download using your own custom prefix for the triggers.
Titler Service
Titler Service
An OS X System Service for adding titles to urls with truncation, junk removal, and affiliate tagging
TL;DR
TL;DR
A jQuery plugin for generating summary blocks on long posts
URL Preview
URL Preview
An OS X Action Extension for popup URL previews
Vitag
Vitag
A CLI tool for batch editing OS X file and folder tags in your text editor
Where?
Where?
A bash function to track where all your bash functions are coming from.
Übersicht Widgets
Übersicht Widgets
A collection of Übersicht widgets