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Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by markchristian »

kawera wrote: post #35

I just bought it; great idea and execution! Some feedback: - Pause: say I set it to two hours and sometime later a client rings and we have a 30min conversation. A pause button would be very helpful. - Full screen mode on 10.7: the bar isn't narrower than on normal mode. - A way to set the default snooze length Good job!

Thanks for the suggestions. - Snooze is a very good idea - Eek. I will look into this. - I definitely want to play with snooze length a bit more. At the very least, I plan on making snooze interval be MIN(time_interval, 5 minutes) — that is, if you had a 1 minute timer, you'll get a 1 minute snooze.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by markchristian »

jzting wrote: post #37

Very clever! Some feedback: * Text can get truncated sometimes: http://f.cl.ly/items/1G3L1F2D3P032T2F3m3E/Screen%20Shot%2020... * Is it possible to change the actual menu bar color? The overlay kind of makes it hard to make out the other items in the menu bar. Maybe an opacity setting would help.

Thanks for the bug report; will fix in 1.1.

You can change the overlay colour by clicking the blue rectangle next to the menu bar preview.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by markchristian »

jops wrote: post #47

Excellent! Thank you for making this. Visual timer's are so much more useful than numeric ones. A suggestion: Could you add an option (if possible) to have the narrow line on the main menu bar like you have on the full screen instead of the full overlay. It would be lass distracting I think. Also, I'm using it to get a feel for my full working day so (the current maximum of) 8 hours is bare minimum. Just thought you…

I've added your ideas to my feature requests list; thanks for the suggestions. :)

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by markchristian »

awef wrote: post #38

Good idea! Two things: - Spotlight searches makes it flicker - Make it narrow for non-native (i.e. not only lion style) full screen aswell. It's awfully disturbing together with full screen iTerm, MacVim etc. Other than that it's quite neat! I'd rather have it fill than empty though, maybe make that an option? ;)

I'll see what I can do about the flicker; thanks.

I'm not sure I can detect whether another app is non-natively full screened, I'm afraid. I'll give it a poke, but to be honest, working with full screen stuff is a bit difficulty on OS X. The APIs aren't super comprehensive.

Filling up rather than emptying out is a fun idea; I'll add that to the ol' feature request list.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by jops »

markchristian wrote: post #53
jops wrote: post #47

Excellent! Thank you for making this. Visual timer's are so much more useful than numeric ones. A suggestion: Could you add an option (if possible) to have the narrow line on the main menu bar like you have on the full screen instead of the full overlay. It would be lass distracting I think. Also, I'm using it to get a feel for my full working day so (the current maximum of) 8 hours is bare minimum. Just thought you…

I've added your ideas to my feature requests list; thanks for the suggestions. :)

Thanks Mark. Still using it and look forward to the updates. Hope it pays for the wedding!

And Joss. Well spotted, but you failed to also spot my two other typos: lass should be less, and bare should be bear. I'll be more careful next time.

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