No Linux or Windows version?
Not yet, sorry, but hopefully in the future
Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
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Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#32Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I'm h…
Fantastic app, thank you for posting! Is there a way to get the current task name to show in full length in the menu bar, similar to what you have in the video? I see a truncated name instead (i.e. instead of "do task number bajillion 30:00" I see "do task num... 30:00").
The task name is truncated any time the app notices that the full name wouldn't fit in the space available in the menu bar. If new menu bar space becomes available I haven't yet found a way to get notified of that, so instead I try "expanding" it once every minute to see if it will fit. If after a minute of waiting you notice the task name still hasn't expanded please let me know as it's definitely a bug.
Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#33Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I'm h…
Does your app support iCloud sync or is everything stored locally? Are there any plans for an iOS app?
Right now everything is stored locally - we don't even have a server running. An iOS app is definitely something we're thinking about, although we want to focus on improving our current Mac app first. One of the main features in our roadmap is integration with Todoist so that you can pull in tasks from your Todoist list instead of retyping them.
Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#34Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I'm h…
Looks interesting. Any plans to offer a trial outside of the MAS?
Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#3513.99 to show notifications from a list. Come on
You’d probably have an opportunity cost of more than that to recreate it, though.
Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#36I'm not in the market for this kind of app, but thank you for making it a straight $9.99 purchase, instead of a $4.99/month SaaS (rental) scheme. Or some bogus in-app purchase that gets negated somewhere along the way when the app auto-updates and the previous in-app purchase is no longer available. I can't tell if it syncs data with my other Apple devices, but if it does, it would be great if it had the option of do…
Thanks! We considered a subscription service with some added features but decided instead to focus on simplicity. Right now there is no syncing, but we will definitely consider using iCloud if we implement it in the future (and once it's back up).
Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#37Mac nerds wouldn’t install an app with icon like this.
Eh, if it's a menu bar app, no need to keep it in the Dock or ever see the icon.
Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#38A bit Off topic but, why does the mac app store open automatically, is there any way to turn that off?
No other kind of link in safari is allowed to open an app like that without confirming it each time.
Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#39Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I'm h…
Looks interesting. Any plans to offer a trial outside of the MAS?
We have no trial version to download right now unfortunately. If you want to try it out feel free to send me an email at julian@effortless.app and I can send you a promo code to download it for free from the app store.
Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time
#40Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I'm h…
Specific question: are the keyboard shortcuts accessible from anywhere? If so, using them would mean I couldn’t close a browser tab or reload a page, because it would be forwarded to Effortless instead, right?