💻 New Machine Checklist 💻

A checklist and list of most of the things I need when getting a new machine or reinstall the OS.

First Things First

• I should have the following user/pass combinations ready
  • Wifi password (if not on MWireless)
  • Apple ID
  • iPhone for 2FA
• I must be an admin on the machine to install things

System Preferences

🍎 General

• Appearance: Blue
• Use dark menu bar and Dock
• Highlight color: Blue
• Show scroll bars: Automatically based on mouse or trackpad
• Click in the scroll bar to: Jump to the spot that's clicked
• Default web browser: Google Chrome
• Ask to keep changes when closing documents
• Close windows when quitting app
• Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices
• Use LCD font smoothing when available

🖥 Desktop & Screen Saver

• Message: Start after: 1/2 hour, 🔘 show clock
• Screen Saver: Flurry

🚢 Dock

• Size: Small
• Magnification: Max
• Position on screen: Bottom
• Double-click on a window's title bar to zoom
• Minimize windows into application icon
• Animate opening applications
• Automatically hide and show the Dock
• Show indicators for open applications

🖲 Mission Control

• Automatically rearrage Spaces based on most recent use
• When switching to an applications, switch to a Space with open windows for the application
• Group windows by application
• Displays have separate Spaces
• Dashboard: Off
• Mission Control: ⌃ + ↑
• Application windows: ⌃ + ↓
• Show Desktop: F11
• Show Dashboard F12

🌐 Language & Region

• Preferred languages
  • English - Primary
• Region: United States
• First day of the week: Sunday
• Calendar: Gregorian
• Time format: [x] 24-Hour Time
• Temperature: ºF

🔒 Security & Privacy

• General
  • Require password immediately
  • Disable automatic login
  • Allow apps downloaded from: Mac App Store and identified developers
• Privacy
  • Allow the apps below to control your computer: (when downloaded)
    • Make sure to untick the Dropbox entry in Accessibility – they don't need that ever

🔍 Spotlight

• All the things, for now

🔔 Notifications

• Do Not Disturb
  • When mirroring to TVs and projectors

📺 Display

• Scaled: More Space
• Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available
• Night Shift
  • Schedule: Sunrise to Sunset
  • Color Temperature: Mid point

🔌 Energy Saver

• Automatic graphics switching
• Battery
  • Put hard disks to sleep when possible
  • Slightly dim the display while on battery power
  • Enable Power Nap while on battery power
• Power Adapter
  • Turn display off after: 1.25 hrs
  • Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
  • Put hard disks to sleep when possible
  • Wake for network access
  • Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter
  • Show battery status in menu bar

⌨ Keyboard

• Keyboard
  • Key Repeat - 2nd to fastest
  • Delay Until Repeat - 3rd tick from left
  • Use all F1, F2, etc.
  • Adjust keyboard brightness in low light
  • Turn keyboard backlight off after 5 secs of inactivity
  • Show Keyboard, Emoji, & Symbol Viewers in menu bar
  • No other unique keyboard settings
• Shortcuts
  • Spotlight: ⌃ + Space

🖱 Mouse - Don't usually use one

⬜ Trackpad

• Point & Click
  • Look up & data detectors
  • Secondary click
  • Tap to click
  • Tracking speed: Mid
  • Force Click and Haptic feedback
• Scroll & Zoom
  • Scroll direction
  • Zoom in or out
  • Smart zoom
  • Rotate
• More Gestures
  • Swipe between pages
  • Swipe between full-screen apps
  • Notification Center
  • Mission Control
  • App Exposé
  • Launchpad
  • Show Desktop

🖨 Printers & Scanners - Nothing special

🔊 Sound

• Nothing special
• Show volume in menu bar

☁️ iCloud - Work config

• iCloud Drive
• Photos
• Mail
• Contacts
• Calendar
• Reminders
• Safari
• Notes
• Keychain
• Back to My Mac
• Find My Mac

🌐 Internet Accounts (try not to add anything unless needed here)

• iCloud
  • Contacts
  • Safari
  • Keychain
  • Find My Mac
• None besides that

💎 Extensions

• Dropbox
• Actions
  • Markup
• Finder
  • Core Sync Helper
  • Dropbox Finder Integration
• Share Menu: All off
• Today
  • Weather
  • World Clock
  • Calendar
  • Reminders

🕸 Network

• Show Wi-Fi status in menu bar
• Advanced
  • Nothing really different

📲 Bluetooth

• Turn Bluetooth On
• Show Bluetooth in menu bar

👫 Sharing

• Whatever ITS does

👆Touch ID

• Right Forefinger
• Left Middlefinger

👤 Users & Groups

• Whatever ITS does
  • Avatar: Eagle hah

👨‍👧 Parental Controls - none

🛍 App Store

• Automatically check for updates
  • Download newly available updates in the background
  • Install app updates
  • Install OS X Updates
  • Install system data files and security updates
• Automatically download apps purchaes on other Macs

🗣 Dictation & Speech

• Dictation All Off

🕒 Date & Time

• Date & Time: Set date and time automatically
• Time Zone: Set time zone automatically using current location
• Clock
  • Show date and time in menu bar
  • Time Options: Digital
  • Date options:
    • Show the day of the week
    • Show the date

🕰 Time Machine: Off

💬 Accessibility: Default

☕ Java: Default

• Java: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index-jsp-138363.html

📂 finder

• in folders, right-click, View > as List

• Finder > Preferences

  • Sidebar
    • Favorites
      • All My Files
      • iCloud Drive
      • AirDrop
      • Applications
      • Box Drive
      • Desktop
      • Documents
      • Downloads
      • Dropbox
      • Google Drive
      • Movies
      • Music
      • Pictures
      • amyx
      • Shared
      • Back to My Mac
      • Connected Servers
      • Bonjour computers
      • Devices
      • Amyx's MacBook Pro
      • Hard disks
      • External disks
      • CDs, DVDs, and iPods
      • Tags
      • Recent tags
  • Advanced
    • Show all filename extensions
    • Show warning before changing extension
    • Show warning before emptying the Trash
    • When performing a search: Search the Current Folder

⬛ shell

• iTerm2
  • General
    • All normal
    • Dark theme flavor of the day
  • Install Oh my zsh

📝 Visual Studio Code - Text editor

• I have all the settings and extensions synced through Github now

🔨 ImageOptim

🌐 Chrome 🏠/FF 🦊 - Web browsers

• Chrome is just for testing
• Firefox is my main
  • Log into account to sync all of the things

↔️ Rectangle - Window management

• General
  • Launch on login
• Use Spectacle hotkeys

🗣 Slack - Communications

🎛 SoundSource

📽 Logitech Capture

🎨 Adobe Creative Cloud

• After Effects
• InDesign
• Illustrator
  • Install AI2HTML script
• Photoshop
• Lightroom

✏️ Figma App

• Install Desktop app too
• Plugins
  • Zeplin

🐉 Need a new FTP app

🌋 LittleIpsum

• it's in the app store now

?? Lando

📦 Dropbox

• Selectively Sync:
  • Stock+
  • Whatever work-related folder
  • Screenshots

🔑 1Password

• Install app and browser extensions, if applicable
• Unlock with Apple Watch
• Allow Universal Clipboard

🦑 Node

🍺 Brew

🧶 Yarn

🐳 Docker

🖥 VirtualBox

⚙️ Xcode

📺 Zoom

🚢 Dock

• Remove all but the following:
  • Finder
  • System Preferences
  • Downloads
  • Trash

🚀 Launchpad

• This will be cluttered, but uninstall anything not relevant.
• Put all pre-installed apps in folders
• I don't really use this anyway

❓ Optional

📝 Scripts

• Show all files

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

• OSX

## All scripts not effective until Finder and Dock are restarted (see below)

## !!! Commit changes by running the following
killAll Finder && killAll Dock

🕸 Websites

• Front End Checklist

🖥 Hardware

• MacBook Pro (Upgrading personal to M1)
  • M1 chipset, how many cores?
  • 16GB at the very least
  • 1TB of SSD Storage
  • Standard graphics card
• Current personal machine
  • MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
  • 2.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
  • 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
  • Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
  • Tiniest hard drive, the bane of my existence on this machine

🛃 Rules

• Don't install anything else in an effort to increase performance.
  • GoToMeeting
  • Kindle
  • Tableau
• Keep all working source files in Dropbox!

Tips and tricks

• https://blog.sindresorhus.com/macos-tips-tricks-13046cf377f8#.bw4vdg7q4