Comments on: Don’t follow us on Twitter

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:54:52 +0000

@dbr: Many users were asking for more frequent updates. Using Twitter we can provide these without taking the time to write full articles. Check out Twitter to see the difference. It has worked very well for us so far.

By: dbr

dbr — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:33:54 +0000

Erm, isn’t this *exactly* what your RSS feed is for?

By: Mattias Thurfjell

Mattias Thurfjell — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:35:25 +0000

@vandozza: yes, maybe you have to many applicatiosn installed… If that is possible.

By: vandozza

vandozza — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:17:02 +0000

unfortunately for me the applications stack only shows me up to applications starting with “R”. maybe when stacks has the list view thing in 10.5.2, ill try and put lesser used apps into subfolders or something like that. i probably should get rid of stuff i dont use much hey!

By: Mattias Thurfjell

Mattias Thurfjell — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:37:12 +0000

@vandozza: I use the Applications stack on the right in the dock as an app launcher (as well as Spotlight), plus only show active apps on the left side of the dock.

By: vandozza

vandozza — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:34:14 +0000

@daniel/jurgen – good points you make guys, i now understand that there are limitations to a dockless app!
i also see the point of making things as lightweight as possible. this lightweight client sounds interesting, would it be a dashboard app, or other?

@james – i have 18 icons in my dock, all stuff im using regularly, and it is set to auto-hide. im starting to run out of room! although i think i could fit 2-3 more, and im guessing things will be one of them! I imagine you are using some form of app launcher to be able to keep your dock down to 2 permanent icons? Tried quicksilver but I didnt really get into it, and now I hear its development is stalled.

By: James Frost

James Frost — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:42:08 +0000

vandozza: you say about saving screen space by having one less icon in your dock – why not just auto-hide your dock? That’s what I do (and have it docked on the left, where it should be) :-)

In addition, the only apps I permanently have in the dock are Finder and Time Machine. Anything else only appears if it’s running.

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:42:41 +0000

I agree with Daniel. As an application developer I always try to focus on the core identity of an app. It is very tempting though to put too many diverging features into one package…

I totally see why vandozza would suggest those features. I believe the best solution is to provide an extra lightweight client to the Things library. Such a client could also provide an auto-hide option.

By: Daniel Beck

Daniel Beck — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:21:10 +0000

Apps without a Dock icon have a few limitations. I’m not sure, but not having menu items (like, regular menus, not icons) could be one of them (can’t remember an app without Dock icon but with a regular menu — switching to those apps tends to be pretty difficult, too).

Also, in my personal opinion… I think it’s a pretty useless option (one additional item in your Dock? Come on!) for most people, only adding complexity for the developers and users. The other thing you suggested, imo also not that useful, also only adding complexity without real benefit (Cmd-H? Spaces?). I hear many people prefering Things over OmniFocus, because it’s elegantly simple? I really hope it stays that way.

By: vandozza

vandozza — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:38:49 +0000

@Jurgen: sounds like a good idea, will be interesting to see how it works out.

out of curiosity, why don’t you like the idea of being able to run things with a dock icon?

im using only a 13″ screen (macbook), so saving dock space where possible is helpful. if its an easy coding job to add to things, then a checkbox preference for an option of a dock icon/no dock icon might be nice. what do others think?

also another feature that you might “borrow” from other applications that i find useful is an “auto-hide after x second” option. with GTD software i seem to bring up the window once every hour or two, and always forget to re-hide the application. i think an “auto-hide” would be nice.

again, keep up the good work culturedcoders, things is shaping up really nicely!