Quartz Composer, Visor and Cheat sheets
What is Visor ?
Visor is a really cool doom-like terminal for your Mac. It drops down from the top of the screen on a hotkey, lets you work in the terminal a bit, and hides as soon as it looses focus.
What is this ?
What was a really great idea was that you can set a quartz composition as the background of your visor terminal.
So you can have some easily accessible cheat sheets right in the background of your terminal!
What is does is it shows the list of images in your ~/.cheatsheets/ folder, and when you move your mouse over one of them, it shows that picture in the background.
Disclaimer
You're getting this for free, and it comes with no garantees whatsoever. It comes as-is. See the Licence section below for reuse.
Setup
- Get SIMBL and Visor up and running.
Download the quartz composition, (and remember where you save it to...)- Open a terminal, and create the cheat sheet folder:
mkdir -p ~/.cheatsheets ; open ~/.cheatsheets/
- Put some pictures in that folder. (you can use my cheatsheet for bash
) - Now in
Visor's preferences, tick the Use Quartz Animation, and set the right composition - Drop down visor and enjoy.
Downloads
Tips
Making cheat sheets
Quickly generate a cheat sheet of your bash aliases with a command like:
alias | cut -c7- | convert -fill white -size 500x -pointsize 12 -font Courier-10-Pitch-Regular -background none caption:@- ~/.cheatsheets/aliases.png
(That requires ImageMagick, using MacPorts, run sudo port install ImageMagick in the command line)
Keeping the folder fresh
By default, the composition will scan the folder when you show the menu, if it hasn't done so in the past 10 seconds. You can set that frequency by editing the composition with quartz composer. It's a published setting on the root patch. The folder is too, if you'd like to change that too.
Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Even though you don't have to, I'd love to see what you make of it if you reuse this.