Guides
Each guide starts with the setting the application already carries, because that is often enough and saves you installing anything. What it does not fix comes after.
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Notes you can still read if the app disappears
Most note applications keep your writing in a format only they understand. How to find out what you would actually keep, and how to stop depending on it.
Tisty
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Let an AI assistant read your notes without uploading them
The usual way to let a model work with your notes is to hand them over. There is another: leave them where they are and open a door.
Tisty
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Open Teams links in a different browser (Windows and macOS)
Microsoft Teams sends every link to Edge. Change the setting Teams already carries, and then decide what to do about the links that ignore it.
LinkUnbound
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Open Outlook links in Chrome or Firefox instead of Edge
Classic Outlook has a setting that decides where a link in an email opens. Change it first, and then deal with what it leaves out.
LinkUnbound
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Send work links to a specific Chrome profile
Chrome opens links in whichever profile was last used. Here is why that happens and how to route a link to the profile you meant.
LinkUnbound
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A Browserosaurus alternative that is still maintained
Browserosaurus is no longer maintained and its own readme points elsewhere. What the alternatives are, on macOS and on Windows.
LinkUnbound
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Windows clipboard history: what Win+V does and where it stops
Windows keeps a clipboard history and most people never switch it on. How to enable it, and the three limits that make people look for something else.
CopyPaste
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Clipboard history on macOS: why there is not one
macOS remembers exactly one thing you copied. What the Finder can show you, and what you need if you want more than the last item.
CopyPaste