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2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Helpful add-ons to make macOS's handy tool even better.
Quickly browsing files in the Finder by pressing the spacebar is one of the most beloved macOS features for most users. By default, Quick Look only works with formats supported by the system. Fortunately, the list can be expanded considerably with the Quick Look Plugins.
How to install plugins
There are two ways to install it: automatically via the Homebrew package manager or manually. To install using Homebrew, you just need to enter the command in the "Terminal", the code of which is indicated in the plugin description. For example:
brew cask install qlmarkdown
To install the plugin you like manually, you need to download it using the link from the description, extract it from the archive, put it in the folder
~ / Library / QuickLook
and end the user session or restart the Mac.
Now you can move on to the plugins themselves.
What is worth installing
QLMarkdown
Plugin for viewing Markdown documents.
Enter
brew cask install qlmarkdown
in "Terminal" or download from this link and install manually.
BetterZipQL
Plugin for viewing extended information about archives.
Enter
brew cask install betterzip
in "Terminal" or download from this link and install manually.
qlImageSize
Plugin for displaying resolution and size when viewing images.
Enter
brew cask install qlimagesize
in "Terminal" or download from this link and install manually.
QLVideo
Plugin for previewing video files.
Enter
brew cask install qlvideo
in "Terminal" or download from this link and install manually.
QuickLookAddict
Plugin for viewing subtitles.
Enter
brew cask install qladdict
in "Terminal" or download from this link and install manually.
6 plugins for developers
A set of useful plugins that come in handy for highlighting code in source files, previewing unknown text files, JSON scripts, as well as WebP images, content from standard Apple software installers and color palettes.
To install all six plugins, enter
brew cask install qlcolorcode qlstephen quicklook-json webpquicklook suspicious-package quicklookase
in the "Terminal".
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