Brett’s Projects

Products for sale

60 Mac Tips: Vol 1

A multimedia book for iBooks, filled with screencasts to turn Mac users into Power Users

60 Mac Tips: Vol 2

A multimedia book for iBooks, filled with screencasts to turn Mac users into Power Users

Amazon Shop

An Amazon shop for things Brett reviews on the blog or podcasts. Or just stuff he thinks is awesome.

Dimspirations Merch

A selection of T-shirts, mugs, and calendars based on Brett's Dimspirations

Markdown Video

A video on Markdown produced for Peachpit's Learn By Video series

Marked 2

My primary commercial application, a Markdown previewer that updates live while you edit in your favorite text editor.

T-shirts

A selection of T-shirts designed by Brett, available through TeeSpring

Free for all

The things I do when I'm not doing the things I get paid for. I give most of it away for free (donations accepted), so dig in and see if any of these projects can help your workflow or inspire some coding mad science of your own. You can find everything else on the Downloads page.

Brett's PopClip Extensions

A collection of PopClip extensions for Markdown writing and more

Brett's Soundtrack

Experiments with Spotify, Apple Music, and Last.fm

Bunch

A batch application launcher for your Dock

Bytes

A file size conversion Service.

Cheaters

The groundwork for building your own set of hotkey-triggered popup cheat sheets for use while you work.

Conductor

A CLI for handling multiple Marked 2 Custom Processors with conditionals

CurlyQ

A command line helper for curl and web scraping.

Dimspirations

Nihilist inspirations for your daily life

doing

A command line utility for keeping track of what you're doing and tracking what you did.

Gather CLI

A command line tool for gathering web pages as note-ready Markdown

GrabLinks

A bookmarklet for capturing Markdown links from any part of a web page

Hook CLI

A Command Line Utility for Hook.app

howzit

A tool for command-line tracking of project build systems

iTextEditors

My unweildy chart showing over 70 iOS text editors with a comparison of features.

Journal

A CLI for journaling with support for JSON, Markdown, and Day One.

jTag

Auto-tagging and tag manipulation for Jekyll/OctoPress blogs

KeyBindings

My OS X KeyBindings experiments.

Make A Date for Keyboard Maestro

A Keyboard Maestro macro that expands a date using natural language

Markdown Service Tools

A collection of OS X Services designed to make writing Markdown text easier in any application.

MarkdownEditing

The barebones beginnings of a Markdown editing bundle for Sublime Text 2.

MD-Lipsum

An API for generating Markdown Lorem Ipsum

mdless

A utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in Terminal

na

"Next Action" script for command-line reading and writing of "@na" tasks in a TaskPaper format file. It can also run as a prompt hook and offer reminders as you cd.

NiftyMenu

A script that creates an HTML playground of a Mac app's menus, ready for screenshots

nvALT

A fork of Notational Velocity with full MultiMarkdown support and additional editing/interface features.

Overtired

Brett's podcast with Christina Warren. Two ADHD nerds with lots to talk about.

PodTagger

Automated podcast ID3 tagger

PopMaker

A bookmarklet for capturing Markdown links from any part of a web page

QuickQuestion

My system for collecting knowledge in an easy-to-parse, memorable-to-search plain text format. It's a command line tool usable from LaunchBar and Alfred and compatible with nvALT.

RegExRX2MD

A CLI for converting RegExRX native files to Markdown.

reiki

An intelligent (and forgiving) shortcut for running complex Rake command line tasks

SearchLink

A nifty System Service for running various types of searches automatically as you work in Markdown, filling in the results as links without having to open a web browser.

Shortly

A PHP-based tool for creating a custom URL shortener

Snibbets

A CLI for accessing code snippets contained in a folder of plain text Markdown files.

Systematic

A podcast featuring interviews with people from all walks of life about what makes them tick

TextExpander Tools

A set of tools and snippets for TextExpander with a special interface that lets you subscribe or download using your own custom prefix for the triggers.

TitleCase

A web API for title casing

Titler Service

An OS X System Service for adding titles to urls with truncation, junk removal, and affiliate tagging

TL;DR

A jQuery plugin for generating summary blocks on long posts

URL Preview

An OS X Action Extension for popup URL previews

Vitag

A CLI tool for batch editing OS X file and folder tags in your text editor

WordPress GitHub Stars Widget

A little WordPress widget to display your GitHub stars.

Retired projects

Retired projects are simply not receiving attention anymore. They may have broken due to changes in underlying software/technology, or they may still be fully functional and I just stopped working on them. They're mostly here as a record.

Answered

A browser bookmarklet for saving StackExchange answers to Markdown or directly to nvALT

AutoTag 2

Connect WordPress tags to the TextMate blogging bundle with auto-complete and suggestion features.

CodeReminder

A CLI to add a Reminders.app reminder and/or OmniFocus task so you don't forget about that repo you cloned to play with later

CoughButton

Turn your iPhone into a cough button for podcasting using a local, PHP-enabled web server.

ExtraInfo

A service for attaching extra notes using wiki syntax across multiple apps

iTunesIcon

An application to quickly search and retrieve an icon for any iOS or Mac App Store app

logr

A bash utility for logging/debugging

Markdown QuickTags

A WordPress plugin for editing Markdown in the standard WordPress editor. Adds auto-pairing, smart lists, link conversions, render/preview in place and more. It’s pretty, too.

Marky the Markdownifier

Marky turns your web pages into readable Markdown, stripping cruft and "Markdownifying" the html.

nvremind

nvremind (pronounced "never mind") scans files for @remind tags and triggers reminders.

oTask

A command line interface for OmniFocus with natural language recognition and fuzzy string matching for projects and contexts.

Pinboard to OpenMeta

Collect your Pinboard bookmarks as local webloc files that you can thumbnail, index and tag with OpenMeta for local searches.

Planter

Create directory trees instantly from tab-indented plain text templates.

Sideshow

A minimalist yet oversized jacket for Simplify.

Slogger

Automatically log your online social checkins and activities to Day One or Markdown files.

TabLinks

Safari Extension to save all open tabs as a Markdown list

TagBak

A command line tool for storing and restoring OS X tags on files.

Where?

A bash function to track where all your bash functions are coming from.

Übersicht Widgets

A collection of Übersicht widgets