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Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by startingpoint »

Hey HN, Benedict the developer here.

I built MonkeyMind as a scratchpad for thoughts while in deep focus. Whenever something pops up in my mind, I needed a place to put it and get back to work.

Pen and paper can do the trick, but something with a Spotlight-like shortcut would be better.

And that is what MonkeyMind does. A simple global keyboard shortcut to add items and an app that lives in the menubar and gets out of your way.

Let me know what you think!

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by dep_b »

nikolatt wrote: post #4

Looks great, thank you for sharing! A question I have about macOS development - where should I start in order to learn how to make menu bar and shortcut driven UIs?

Ray Wenderlich has a nice basic tutorial around creating a simple menu bar application. I just used it for my own application and it seems well up-to-date. I thought it was this one: https://www.raywenderlich.com/450-menus-and-popovers-in-menu...

A global hotkey is not something I have experience with but it seems that there's a library called Hotkey: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47760135/global-keyboard...

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by BrowserMeeting »

startingpoint wrote: post #2

Hey HN, Benedict the developer here. I built MonkeyMind as a scratchpad for thoughts while in deep focus. Whenever something pops up in my mind, I needed a place to put it and get back to work. Pen and paper can do the trick, but something with a Spotlight-like shortcut would be better. And that is what MonkeyMind does. A simple global keyboard shortcut to add items and an app that lives in the menubar and gets out o…

Benedict - this app looks awesome! Will install this when I get OS X reinstalled on my Mac!

I have been looking for something like this that keeps me out of apps while I am in code mode!

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by startingpoint »

dep_b wrote: post #7
nikolatt wrote: post #4

Looks great, thank you for sharing! A question I have about macOS development - where should I start in order to learn how to make menu bar and shortcut driven UIs?

Ray Wenderlich has a nice basic tutorial around creating a simple menu bar application. I just used it for my own application and it seems well up-to-date. I thought it was this one: https://www.raywenderlich.com/450-menus-and-popovers-in-menu... A global hotkey is not something I have experience with but it seems that there's a library called Hotkey: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47760135/global-keyboard...

That's pretty much the same place where I started as well (the RW tutorial). For the library: HotKey is exactly what I used. Simple to set up, works with the Xcode Package manager and does exactly what it says.
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