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I just started at Stripe last year, and I found myself perform many mechanical tasks like:

* Converting seconds-from-epoch to a human readable date

* Select an id and pull info about it

At first, I tried to perform these mechanical tasks with some crazy shortcuts. But remembering shortcuts for every little flow is heavy.

Eventually, I've built a programmable tooltip on Mac OS X for these mechanical tasks.

I'd love for you to try it!

https://github.com/tanin47/tip




This is really cool. I had a similar idea a couple of years ago to implement something similar to this using the three finger single tap command on the trackpad that currently brings up dictionary/siri knowledge/wikipedia etc. I see you have 4-finger tap implemented with an additional app which is really cool and probably better than the 3-finger native OS way since you can highlight/copy as well as build your own menu.

Thank you for this!


Yes, I'm still working on the mouse/trackpad configuration app, which will make Tip usage really convenient.

Please leave a comment on this issue: https://github.com/tanin47/tip/issues/28

I'll notify you when the app is released to private beta.

Current progress: I'm building the setting UI for configuring mouse button and trackpad.


Very cool idea! I can immediately thing of like 5 things I could use this for.


Thank you! Please don't hesitate to open GitHub issues if you have suggestions to make your workflows more convenient.

Just curious: what are the workflows you plan to use Tip for?


Super cool. Thanks for sharing


Thank you for your comment! Any feedback/suggestion is welcome!


This is awesome.


Thank you!




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