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MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

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Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#21

I wish reminder alerts were triggered at the correct time or as soon as my Mac wakes from sleep, not hours later or even on the next day.

Or reminders that reliably synced across Mac/phones. It works _most_ of the time, but there's at least 4 or 5 times a week I open one of my macs and it reminds me to call my mother even though that was checked off my list.. four days ago.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#22
It's abundantly clear to me that Apple is not interested in improving the desktop experience. They simply want to show some shiny new features, and to continue to reduce the dimensions and weight of their laptops (even at the cost of usability). At this point I am hoping for a new unix-based alternative to windows with the same level of stability and usability as macOS. Long gone are the days where I would expect Apple to do what so many of us want with the operating system.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#23
post #16

How about an iTunes experience that doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge. I can't name a single more consistently infuriating piece of software to interact with. It's been horrible as long as it has existed, without fail. On second thought, perhaps its stalwart consistency as one of the most unusable applications in the history of consumer software is one of the few constants in this fast changing world. Perhaps…

Version 1 was really good.

That's where my frustration over the app comes from. It used to be pretty much perfect.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#24
I would love the ability to customize the location of notifications so that I can set them on the bottom right corner instead of having them fixed to the upper right. Really hate how calendar notifications can hide my chrome extensions and many other things.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#25
I want customizable "later/snooze" options for reminders/calendar notifications. Specifically, I want a "Snooze until tonight" or "Snooze until I get home".

… Mostly when I tell Siri to remind me to do something and she records the wrong time and the reminder comes up at 2pm at work instead of 8pm like I tried to record it.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#26
post #14

Can you just include a little checkbox in the mouse settings that lets me reverse mouse scroll independently from the touch pad's two-finger scroll without having to pay for an app? That'd be swell.

(I have not tried either of these solutions, so I'm not sure if they actually work.) Although still separate applications, Karabiner and Scroll Reverser are both free. (I mention this since you stated having to "pay for an app".)

(1) Karabiner: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ → Cf. Kellen Mace, "Separate Trackpad & Mouse Natural Scrolling in Mac OS X" (2014) https://kellenmace.com/automate-trackpad-mouse-natural-scrol...

(2) Scroll Reverser: http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#29
They could fix the free disk space indicator. Mine goes up and down between 50GB and 200GB. I know this is because of local snapshots and supposedly it will clean up space as needed but I have no idea how much space is exactly available to me. Some versions ago the free space indicator was accurate. When you emptied the trash free space went up exactly by the amount of deleted files. Now it doesn't change at all.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

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post #19

Topping my wishlist would be for Apple to not have to put every product in the same "fashion bauble" category and consider pro, workhorse computers to be a different type of thing with different criteria. Both the Mac Pro and the MacBOOK Pro should be treated as workhorses, not show horses, and optimized for practical usefulness. Less emphasis on looking thinner and more fashionable and more on keyboards that feel gr…

The Touch Bar actually gets somewhat useful if you install BetterTouchTool, at which point you can override it with custom everything (including scripted buttons, changing contents of things with Applescript, etc).

The sad part is that there's still no good way to use it as a Dock replacement, which seems to me like the really obvious thing that would actually make it a productivity boost rather than merely "nifty".

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