Setting Up a Mac

System Preferences

• Trackpad: disable force touch, make tracking speed fast, disable natural scrolling
• Keyboard: key repeat rate fast, delay until repeat short
• Keyboard > Shortcuts > Screenshots: change the shortcut for “copy picture of selected area to the clipboard” to ⌘\ for ease (it’s a game changer trust me)
• Displays: disable automatically adjust brightness, disable true tone
• Desktop > Hot Corners: mission control, notification center, launchpad, put display to sleep
• Enable screen sharing permissions for Zoom

Apps

• Remove everything from the dock
• Install VS Code, Sublime Text, Chrome, Spotify, Obsidian, Notion, Zoom
• Nice to haves: Klack, Vivid, Cron, Tailscale, Texts, Stats, Screen Studio, Rectangle, Warp, Raycast, Cyberduck, Heynote, Ollama, LM Studio

Terminal

• Install command line tools: xcode-select --install
• Don’t show login info: touch .hushlogin
• Change zsh to bash: chsh -s /bin/bash
• Get custom dotfiles: git clone https://github.com/ishan0102/dotfiles.git
• Add SSH key for GitHub
• Disable visual bell