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.
Based on our record, Dash for macOS should be more popular than PlaceKitten. It has been mentiond 85 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Placekitten.com — A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
Https://placekitten.com/ lots of services like this, but this is the cutest. Source: 6 months ago
I worked at Facebook, where we communicate with each other using an internal version of Facebook. Once, our frontend security engineer (author of https://escape.alf.nu) wrote a clickbait story which ended with “… (read more)”, like most long Facebook stories did at the time. However, he had exploited an XSS hole in our frontend so that clicking the “read more” link allowed arbitrary Javascript to execute on your... Source: 6 months ago
Similar to https://placekitten.com/ if anyone wanted kittens instead of whoas. Source: 9 months ago
As far as actual content, you use Lorem Ipsum for text, and something like placekitten for images or a placeholder SVG. Source: about 1 year ago
This is awesome!! I use something similar on MacOS but it's a native app with offline support. The offline support is a neat feature but honestly these days if the internet is down I just don't do any development work... - https://kapeli.com/dash. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Not a complete answer, but I hope Markdown is or becomes the standard for offline docs and text for local/offline consumption. I only ever write in markdown anyway (usually with http://obsidian.md). The closest thing I know of for a service like RSS to download documents is [Dash for macOS - API Documentation Browser, Snippet Manager - Kapeli](https://kapeli.com/dash). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
There are so many great sources of information out there and tools to improve the developer experience of documentation. Dash can make some of these online resources local for instant search and access on-the-go, if you prefer. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago
Https://kapeli.com/dash Somewhat similar tool to Autokey for MacOS that I use as a text expander. Allows for great customization - appending ; to a phrase ensures you don't accidentally expand a keystroke into a phrase/URL/etc ";url" expands into "whatever string you configure". - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
This reminded me that I needed to settle on a good system-wide Snippets manager for MacOS. Having waded through the morass of buggy and subscription-only services many times in the past, I thought to give the open-source Espanso another go, but its last commit was many months ago and I simply could not get it to recognise Ventura permissions. It was then that I remembered that the excellent Dash... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Lorem Picsum - Lorem Ipsum... but for photos
Zeal - Zeal is an API Documentation Browser.
Placemat - Pretty nice placeholder images.
DevDocs - Open source API documentation browser with instant fuzzy search, offline mode, keyboard shortcuts, and more
PlaceBear - Bear-themed placeholder images for developers
Velocity - Velocity gives your Windows desktop offline access to over 150 API documentation sets provided by...