Dash for macOS Reviews

1. Stan

   · Founder at SaaSHub · over 4 years ago
   One of my favourite productivity tools as a software developer

   Once you get use to it, you won't be able to imagine your life without Dash. It will save you a bit of time every day. Many times.

   As a bonus you can use the "snippets" feature as a generic text-expander. That saves me tons of time when writing emails, too.

   p.s. aText is not exactly a direct competitor; however, I replaced it through the snippets feature of Dash.

   🏁 Competitors: aText

Snippety Reviews

Dash for macOS mentions (91)

• Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs

  You're absolutely right about the root cause being outdated AI knowledge bases/training data. I agree, my solution doesn't address that directly. Where this actually shines is with local LLMs (Ollama, etc) - smaller models, no API costs, fully offline, and the AI gets fresh docs without waiting months for model retraining cycles. Your point about convincing major providers to integrate something like Dash... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

  Https://kapeli.com/dash for MacOS supports man pages just like any of its many other documentation sources. Just prefix the search query with `man:`. Absolute hall of fame app IMO. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Why "alias" is my last resort for aliases

  Yeah, I do something kind of similar, using Dash [1] snippets which expand to full commands. Since I'm almost always on my mac, it means they're available in every shell, including remote shells, and in other situations like on Slack or writing documentation. I mostly use § as a prefix so I don't type them accidentally (although my git shortcuts are all `gg`-consonant which is not likely to appear in real typing).... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)

  Yeah, I keep thinking that CHM was the peak format for offline docs. Today we have Kiwix [0] and Dash/Zeal [1] – both amazing projects, but somehow they feel more complex, and the formats they use aren’t as ubiquitous. [0]: https://kiwix.org/en/ [1]: https://kapeli.com/dash for macOS, https://zealdocs.org/ for others. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: What is one software product that boosted your productivity?

  Dash https://kapeli.com/dash Mac app. A native standardised search and browsing interface for the documentation of almost every programming language out there (and in some cases, their third-party libraries too). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Snippety mentions (7)

• Show HN: I automated 1/2 of my typing

  I’ve got to plug Snippety on macOS. I’ve configured it to work with my PowerShell scripts, so I can easily call out to OpenAI endpoints and then inline the response into whatever app I’m in. Plus, the dev is super cool and his product is well done. Not associated with it in anyway other than being a happy customer. https://snippety.app. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• SOAP notes--pediatric medicaid

  I don't write SOAP notes anymore but I recently found a mac application called Snippety that has completely streamlined all of the redundant tasks I do. It combines text expansion with key simulation. You have to spend some time figuring out which keys are pushed to achieve your goal, but every time since then, you'll run the snippet and it'll do all the button pushing for you. Here's a few examples:... Source: over 2 years ago

• Suggest a text expander/ Clipboard app for my use case

  Snippety: Snippety is a more recent app. Its UI is slick and modern. It lacks some basic features to make it a full fledged expander at this point IMO, but the dev is receptive and willing to add features users request. Source: over 2 years ago

• Snippety positive feedback (text expansion)

  There are many questions about text expanders options on this subreddit. I wanted to give a shout out to the maker of Snippety, an option I only discovered recently. I loved the UI right away, but it was missing a few features (triggers and auto capitalization) to be a viable option for me. I contacted the developer, and 6 weeks later, they have been implemented! Source: over 2 years ago

• Predictive Text app

  Snippety: I just discovered Snippety recently. It’s also primarily aimed at programmers, but the feature set is a bit larger than Dash’s though it’s still missing some critical features for my needs at this point (delimiters, auto capitalization and CSV importing). That said, the dev responds to feeedback and seems willing to consider and add features. I hope so because the UI is slick and modern, ne text... Source: over 2 years ago