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Introduction

This book, by name, wants to introduce you with cutler, a software made to declaratively manage your macOS preferences and essentials. It can do a number of things. This book will help you navigate all of them, including new ones which are currently in development.

Basic Directions

When you follow along the book, you'll notice both command and code snippets as examples, showing you certain behavior. If the command is prefixed with a $, it may mean that you may need to only "follow" the structure instead of just copy-pasting it. Other times, you can freely do so if the criterias specified are met.

If instead the code blocks have their file paths mentioned on top (for most of the time it will be the config file of cutler), it describes the structure of certail parts of the file.

Why cutler

While using macOS, I have come to realize that most solutions like Nix are not always easy to maintain either. So, I wanted to create a tool that abstracts away all the complexity into simple, already-known terms for most power users.

And that's how cutler came to be.

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Let's Go!

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