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3 Mac Apps That’ll Supercharge Your Productivity

3 min readMay 17, 2020

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Photo by Mia Baker on Unsplash

The apps we use are crucial to our workflow. Whether you need to track a project’s progress or free up disk space on your machine, there’s something for everyone. If you need to get work done, the three apps below will help keep you productive and focused on the task at hand.

Magnet is available for $1.99.

Magnet

Magnet is an app I can’t believe isn’t a core part of macOS. If you’re constantly resizing windows on your display, Magnet makes the process infinitely easier. And it’s fully customizable, so you can tailor it to your experience.

To use Magnet, you can either use a keyboard shortcut or drag a window to a certain section of your display to instantly snap and resize it to a predetermined area. You can snap windows to the top, left, right, bottom, and you can also snap in quarters, halves, and thirds.

Think of Magnet like the iPad’s SplitView feature, but much more robust. When you’re working on a laptop, screen real estate is at a premium. I especially love using Magnet when I have a lot of applications open at once; it makes me feel like I’m in…

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Brandon Russell
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Written by Brandon Russell

Recovering journalist, aspiring photographer. Previously: TechnoBuffalo, iMore, AndroidCentral, WindowsCentral. Learn more www.brandonrussell.co

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