The menu bar items I use on macOS

This is an expanded version of a post I made to the MPU Talk forum.

Visible

Those I often need to interact with:

• Bartender (menu bar item manager; old version)
• Dato (alt clock and calendar with timezones; old version)
• iStat Menus (network speed; old version)
• xBar (custom menu items powered by my own shell scripts)
  • Proxy Status
  • Software Sales Stats
  • GitHub Issues
  • Eject Volumes
• Caffeine (used to set Mac not to sleep)

Hidden

Those I infrequently need to interact with:

• Bookmark manager hotkey app (my own, unreleased; supports linkding)
• OTP Auth (2FA codes)
• ToothFairy (Bluetooth/AirPods helper)
• Fluor (specify function key behaviour per-app)

Always Hidden

Those I rarely need to interact with:

• Bluesnooze (turns off Bluetooth when Mac sleeps)
• NepTunes (audio scrobbler and track notifications)
• SoundSource (custom audio equaliser with my hearing profile audiogram)
• DeepL (instant translation of copied text when doing Cmd+C twice)
• Alfred (multi-tool with clipboard history and custom workflows)
• Default Browser (open links in your most recently used/active browser)
• Tiles (window manager)
• Hammerspoon (my own window and workspace manager functions written in Lua)

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