Create plain Markdown files in a folder you choose. Use an infinite board for cards, notes from your vault, pictures, links and groups, joined by labelled arrows. Save in the same open format as Obsidian. A card can be a rectangle, a pill, an ellipse, a diamond or a cylinder.

The process of choosing apps for Thriftmac has changed a lot over the past 20 years. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for worse.

An app that aims to do better than the built-in Night Shift by warming your screen so that your body clock is convinced that it is night time, which is good for your circadian rhythm and sleep health. Can be customized if you have multiple screens.

Polish your messy speech into text ready for any app. Runs locally and exposes nothing. System-wide input uses one shortcut for any text field. Prompts can be customized for each app.

Play music, podcasts, lectures and interviews from YouTube from the convenience of your menu bar, all ad free. Build playlists, go offline, create a queue.

Minimal interface has four customizable layouts. Blocks ads, trackers, cookie banners, third-party cookies and tampers with finger-printing — all by default. Thousands of search !bangs to choose from. Light and efficient, based on de-Googled Chromium.

Go notch free. If the app detects you are using a resolution where the notch cuts into your work space, it shifts the display mode so that it matches a resolution where the notch no longer shows.

Does anyone remember the predecessor to thriftmac? It was called free for X. I barely remember and I’m the one who built it.

Change the icon for any Mac app. Browse from macosicons.com, use your own .icns files or drop in a .png. Change your mind with one click. My VS Code icon is now dark, the way it should always have been.

A timer that always stays on top. Choose the size, colour and transparency. Also has repeat timers, stop watch and alarms. Set it by typing.

Run HyperCard stacks from the Internet Archive’s HyperCard collection on your modern Mac without an emulator. Features period-accurate typography, sound, instruments, and MacinTalk speech synthesis, plus cross-stack navigation.

Three forks of Audacity are now united in Tenacity. Features include recording from audio devices (real or virtual), export and import of a wide range of audio formats, up to 32-bit float audio support, support for VST, LV2, and AU plugins, scripting, and more.

A menu bar item that packs so many features you might not need anything else. Includes: keep awake, volume mixer, system monitor, metrics, window switcher, cut-and-paste in Finder, quit when last window closes, app uninstaller, floating shelf, cleaning mode, fan control, and probably more by now.