I'm a developer and product designer, and the founder of Sophinauta. I build focused Mac utilities for developers and power users — tools that solve one thing exactly right, rather than trying to be everything.
I built Pathly out of my own frustration. Working with Claude, Codex, and other AI-assisted coding tools, I was constantly copying file paths — pasting them into prompts, terminal commands, PR descriptions, and editor configs. The native macOS method (hold Option, right-click, find the menu item, click) is four separate actions every single time. I was doing this more than four times a day. Pathly reduces it to two: right-click, choose format.
That's not a small thing. The path from friction to flow is paved with tiny repeated annoyances. Removing one that happens dozens of times a day compounds across every working session.
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What I write about
I write guides about macOS file paths, Finder workflows, and developer productivity on Mac. Most of it comes directly from problems I've hit — and the fastest solution I've found, whether that's Pathly, a terminal alias, or a built-in macOS trick I didn't know existed.