![]() Open Automator in your Applications folder.Download the Zip file above and put it anywhere on your computer (I keep mine in Dropbox so that my cheat sheets are available on other machines).The most useful way to use Cheaters is with an Automator Application. Under images/fluid/CheatersIcon.png you can find a nice Icon to use for Cheaters.ĭon't forget to "Allow browsing to any URL" in the Whitelist section of Fluid preferences. You can use the instructions below if you're a cheapskate, but for $5 you can use Fluid and create a menu bar app that's much more full-featured and usable than the Automator action. If you want to set this up to run with launchd, it would probably be wise to add a cd /path/to/cheaters line in before the python command. That will launch Python's simpleHTTPServer in that directory with an address of (which you can then plug into Fluid or Automator). If you don't know how to work with either of these, the best bet might be to run the cheat.sh script found in the cheaters folder. This can be done with something like MAMP, or using the built in Apache server in macOS. Sheets are easy to create with minimal markup and are, for the most part, automatically styled and made to fit in with Cheaters overall aesthetic.īe sure to check out the built-in Markdown conversion for easy cheatsheet creation, and check here for info on the fast switcher, deep linking and a JavaScript API.įor Cheaters to work, you need to be serving the files on a local server. ![]() I've included a collection of hastily made sheets as examples for you to create your own. Most of the time I create TextExpander snippets for commonly-forgotten formats, but having an overall reference can be handy. I just expanded on the idea a little bit.Ĭheaters is a collection of HTML-based cheat sheets meant for display in an Automator-based popup browser which can float on your screen while you work in other apps ( demo the web version). ![]() Support Cheaters by making a donation to my coffee fund.įirst and foremost, this is a total ripoff of an idea by Gabe Weatherhead over at Macdrifter. ![]()
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