feeds VS sol

https://kapeli.com/dash

Somewhat similar tool to Autokey for MacOS that I use as a text expander.

Allows for great customization - appending ; to a phrase ensures you don't accidentally expand a keystroke into a phrase/URL/etc

";url" expands into "whatever string you configure"

This reminded me that I needed to settle on a good system-wide Snippets manager for MacOS.

Having waded through the morass of buggy and subscription-only services many times in the past, I thought to give the open-source Espanso another go, but its last commit was many months ago and I simply could not get it to recognise Ventura permissions.

It was then that I remembered that the excellent Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash), for which I had already paid a very reasonable one-off fee, has a snippets manager. And it’s perfect.

I use Dash for my API reference, partly because it also has all the other references I need for other languages. It’s easier to paw through when you’ve got exactly this sort of problem.

Dash. Look up documentation really fast. Also useful for system wide snippets.

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Some time ago I had a thought that it would be interesting to make something like https://quickref.common-lisp.net/ but in form of docset for [Dash](https://kapeli.com/dash) documentation browser. This will give not only the search, but also a browsable documentation on all Common Lisp packages!

Sol open source alternative

yes, via react-native-macos you can make your existing react-native apps work on macos as native desktop apps - or just build a new desktop app directly with it, such as https://github.com/ospfranco/sol

Another one https://github.com/ospfranco/sol. For both of them, success hinges on plugins and a nice, native UI.

Sol is nice and then again it seems young and a bit lacking.

File search https://github.com/ospfranco/sol/issues/45 or opening files / apps in finder is not yet possible.

Did not understand how to alter search engine.

Window manager does not allow to use screen quarters.

Clearly this has huge potential. Maybe more developers will join the effort.

Have a look at Raycast (https://www.raycast.com) or the new & open source Sol (https://github.com/ospfranco/sol) both available through Homebrew.