On the Windows side it was always a little awful, but life is getting better thanks to Nylas. If there's anything macOS has a glut of, it's mail apps that look good. I wish Microsoft would just bundle this behavior right in. Seer makes life a lot easier, bringing back the space-button preview, and making it work well inside Windows. One of my annoyances about Windows is that there's no universal 'Preview' style app that lets you open a large range of files quickly.

SeerĪnother one of my reflexes is slamming the space key to see inside a file, rather than opening it.

This app has been around forever - and works on Mac too - but as a religious CMD + SHIFT + 4 user on Mac, this was perfect for replacing that reflex (I even mapped the same shortcut to work inside Windows, so I can just keep doing it). If you want to annotate, add text or even just copy to your clipboard rather than saving a file every time you make a screenshot this app is for you. Windows has built-in region capturing now, but Lightshot takes it to the next level. In general, I've been impressed with the state of Windows apps - it seems like they've come a long way in recent times, and I've found a number of tools that have enhanced my workflow in a big way.

Over the last few weeks I've been writing about my shift to Windows from Mac after five years of using a MacBook, and many of you have written to ask what apps I use to replace various Mac-only tools.

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