How I use Mac

Apps

IINA: Media player

ImageOptim: Lower the resolution of images w/o compromising on the quality.

BetterDisplay: Must if you use external monitor (Set HiDPI & notice the difference)

Milanote: Project/tasks organizer

Dropzone: Makes it easier to copy and move files, and clipboards around

Mounty: Essential to work with NTFS drives.

AppCleaner: Uninstalls apps the correct way

Colorslurp: Picks colors from your desktop

Localsend: Transfers files, texts between Android and Mac

Macmousefix: Remaps third-party e.g. Razer mouse buttons

Amethyst: Window organiser

Mos: Fixes scrolling issues for non-Apple mouse

Spek: Acoustic spectrum analyser

youtube-dl: Mainly use it for converting video from YouTube to audio. How here

Settings

Set accent color to Multicolor for better readability with different background colors

Disabled hot corners

Background sound

Settings → Accessibility → Audio → Background sounds → Choose a sound e.g. Steam/Rain etc

Control Centre → Other modules → Hearing → Show in menu bar

Disabled live text & set region properly

Disabled foul sounds

Changed modifier keys for non-apple keyboard

Set Alert volume to zero

Disable thumbnail for Screenshot app

Screenshot → Options → Uncheck show floating thumbnail

Turn off Finder notifications

Auto mount external drives

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool true

App settings

SMPlayer

Reduce animations using commands

defaults write -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool false
defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001
defaults write -g QLPanelAnimationDuration -float 0
defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -bool false
defaults write -g NSDocumentRevisionsWindowTransformAnimation -bool false
defaults write -g NSToolbarFullScreenAnimationDuration -float 0
defaults write -g NSBrowserColumnAnimationSpeedMultiplier -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-show-duration -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-hide-duration -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-page-duration -float 0
defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true