Liv's Beehive

This is my own personal checklist for things I need to remember to do whenever I set up a new Mac from scratch.

Apps to install from the app store

• Affinity Designer
• Mona
• Tailscale
• 1Password for Safari

Things to install from elsewhere

• 1Password
• VS Code
• Discord
• iTerm
• Tower
• Alfred
• Homebrew
• nvm
• pnpm
• SF fonts

Things to install in homebrew

brew install gh pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib librsvg pixman python-setuptools

Changes to make on the filesystem

• Create ~/Developer directory

System settings to change

• Appearance
  • Change "Accent colour" to purple
• Desktop & Dock
  • Turn off "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use"
  • Turn off "Show suggested and recent apps in Dock"
  • Change "Click wallpaper to reveal desktop" to "Only in Stage Manager"
  • Turn on "Drag windows to screen edges to tile"
• Wallpaper
  • Change to "Shuffle Aerials > Shuffle All"
  • Change to "Every Day"
• Keyboard
  • Shortcuts
    • Change Spotlight to ⌥Space
    • Tower
      • Set "Stage All Local Changes" to ⌘⇧A
      • Set "Unstage All Local Changes" to ⌘⌥⇧A
• Trackpad
  • Turn on "Quiet click"

App-specific settings to change

Finder

• General
  • Uncheck all items under "Show these items on the desktop"
  • Change "New Finder windows show" to the home directory
  • Turn on "Sync Desktop & Documents folders"
• Sidebar
  • Uncheck "Recents" and "Recent tags"
  • Check home directory and system volume
• View options
  • Turn on "Always open in icon view"
  • Change "Sort by" to "Name"
  • Turn on "Show item info"
  • Click "Use as Defaults"

Dock

• Change Downloads stack to Grid

Alfred

• Set shortcut to ⌘Space
• Turn on clipboard history

Affinity Designer

• Tools
  • Change "Move Tool Aspect Constrain" to "Do not constrain by default"

iTerm

Import settings and profiles from iCloud Drive/Sync/iTerm

Tower

• Set default directory to ~/Developer
• In commit list change to "Small Commit View Size"