Thinkbuddy For Mac

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, but the standard web interface isn’t really the most productive way to use the service.

Thinkbuddy is a dedicated, native Mac app that lets you access OpenAI’s services from the desktop and provides many quality-of-life improvements. This includes advanced workflows, shortcuts, and a user-friendly interface.

The first thing you’ll notice is the clear, intuitive UI. There’s no need for an OpenAI account or an API key, so you can start typing prompts instantly. These are saved on the left, with a related emoji that allows you to tell them apart.

From the right-hand sidebar, you can select the AI model to be used, set the creativity level, and add other instructions. Once you get an answer, you can use shortcuts to copy it or process it further.

Prompts can be configured for actions you perform frequently. These can then be brought up with a hotkey and used to modify some text, generate something, or whatever else you can think of.

Thinkbuddy is designed to integrate into your workflow seamlessly. You can configure hotkeys for quick chats, voice commands, screen captures, writing, and various text actions. These can be used together, such as generating a text and then summarizing it.

Using OpenAI’s Whisper, you can dictate messages and have the app type them for you. The text can then be processed in various ways, all with just a couple of hotkeys.

To get the most out of Thinkbuddy, you’ll need to set up shortcuts for everything. Once you learn them, you’ll save a ton of time whenever you need to generate or modify some text.

The app can even be hidden from the Dock entirely and accessed exclusively via hotkeys or from the menu bar. It does a great job of being unobtrusive yet powerful and versatile, and it’s certainly a big improvement over the standard ChatGPT interface.