Dotfiles

Before

First, go through the checklist below to make sure you didn't forget anything before you wipe your hard drive.

• Did you commit and push any changes/branches to your git repositories?
• Did you remember to save all important documents from non-cloud directories?
• Did you save all of your work from apps which aren't synced?
• Did you remember to export important data from your local database?
• Did you update mackup to the latest version and ran mackup backup?

Installing macOS

After going to our checklist above and making sure you backed everything up, we're going to cleanly install macOS with the latest release. Follow this article to cleanly install the latest macOS version.

Setting up macOS

If you did all of the above you may now follow these install instructions to setup a new Mac.

1. Update macOS to the latest version
2. Install Xcode from the App Store, open it and accept the license agreement
3. Install macOS Command Line Tools by running xcode-select --install
4. Append /usr/local/bin/zsh to the end of your /etc/shells file
5. Copy your public and private SSH keys to ~/.ssh
6. Clone this repo to ~/.dotfiles
7. Run install.sh to start the installation
8. Start Herd.app and run its install process
9. Restore preferences by running mackup restore
10. Restart your computer to finalize the process

After (not automated; opinionated)

Unfortunately, there are still some things we have to set manually:

System Preferences	- Background: Wallpaper - Control Panel - Display: Night Shift (22:00 - 08:00) - Lock Screen: Battery (5m), Power (5m) - Notifications - Trackpad: Gestures
Keyboard	- Correct spelling automatically - Capitalize words automatically - Add period with double-space - Smart quotes
Widgets	- Calendar - Reminders - Weather
Finder	- Toolbar - Sidebar
Calendar	- Default Calendar
Notes	- Sort By Title