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