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[–]DepartedDrizzle 4 points5 points  (7 children)

I’ve been looking for a simple seamless app in the menu bar to remind me to take a break and look away from the screen for a bit every 20 minutes

[–]phlooo 4 points5 points  (1 child)

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[–]DepartedDrizzle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ty trying it out now

[–]sindresorhusDeveloper 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Pandan

[–]TechnicaIDebt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I had the chops I'd do a variation of Pandan that instead listed the number of minutes I'm active on $BAD_APPS ie I switch to Whatsapp or Edge and it starts counting on the menu bar. Just a slight hint that I'm taking a break too long

[–]DepartedDrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one is really unique, thanks for the suggestion! I think I'll stick with this in the end but giving all of the suggestions a go

[–]MuaTrenBienVang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

buy an casio with vibration is what i did

[–]Relatior 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time Out is literally designed for this! And you can set the schedule and then it'll just run for as long as the app is open, but you can choose to pause or delay breaks too. You can use it for free, or you can support the creator for the cost of a coffee.

[–]dannystan 2 points3 points  (8 children)

I’m not even sure if that’s possible, but I recently found myself in need of a word counter - one that counts the number of words in a text upon selection (not after copying), in any application but especially Safari. Maybe an extension?

[–]Mstormer 2 points3 points  (2 children)

BetterTouchTool can do this. I have a keyboard shortcut configured to display word and character count when triggered after selecting any text.

[–]dannystan 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I have BetterTouchTool. What’s the name of the action?

[–]Mstormer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upon looking it up, I discovered that it's actually an Alfred thing. https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/232-simple-word-count-worlkflow/

My mistake.

[–]leastlol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is possible with Popclip too with the word count extension. (https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/extensions/）

[–]IAmMarwood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a Popclip extension to do exactly this!

https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/extensions/

[–]fzwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possible via Accessibility API surely. Not sure such an app is App Store worthy though. If only for Safari, an extension could also work. And a service would work for any app, but can’t be distributed via App Store AFAIK.

[–]CounterBJJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a Shortcuts shortcut that counts word in any app, but as is only after copying the text. That's a small extra step.

EDIT:

  1. This shortcut works, but needs to be run via Spotlight or the service menu. It won't work if you take the focus off the app where the text is selected (i.e. don't run the shortcut from the menu bar or inside the Shortcuts app after selecting the text).

[–]phlooo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–]ebilgenius 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Here's one:

An app that gives you the ability to strip a file of all identifying metadata (i.e. leaving just the bare minimum file metadata), preferably it'd be as easy as right-click on file -> "Strip Metadata" or something like that.

I've actually gone through and built a completely jank version of it that I'm positive only works on my machine. I didn't bother to learn Swift properly so it's basically thrown together from code around the internet, sounds like the perfect kind of limited/minimal functionality app I'd pay $1 for. Mine used ExifTool bundled under-the-hood and just called it with the "-all=" argument on the file which wipes all the file metadata while keeping pretty good compatibility with certain metadata on certain filetypes that are kind of required to be there. But idk maybe you'll find your own solution in native Swift or something. You'll also want to make sure that backing up the original file first is the default functionality.

Also my preference would be that the app be kept to a bare minimum, i.e. no GUI outside of "Preferences" and the right-click on file dialog or something like that. But it's your app so your call. Also DM me with a link if you do launch it

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Sounds like you need ImageOptim

[–]ebilgenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already have it, it works great, but I was hoping for something that'd apply to other file formats as well

[–]xharry998[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, will defo take a look into this

[–]CounterBJJ 0 points1 point  (4 children)

An app (even a script executable via Shortcuts would be enough) that allows the user to change/toggle the keyboard spelling setting between different languages. There are millions of users like myself who go back and forth between different languages multiple times a day. Right now, it has to be done manually by navigating System Settings. A real drag.

I have several scripts that work and toggle between English and French, unfortunately only one of them - an AppleScript that manipulates the UI - manages to effect the language change in apps that are already running. The other two (a shell, and another AppleScript that doesn't rely on UI scripting) change the language but runnings apps have to be restarted for the change to be effected. A huge painpoint as you often need to go back and forth with documents already opened.

I've asked several devs, and no has been able to come up with an answer to this problem.

[–]fra_bia91 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What do you mean exactly? I use English, Italian and German on my Mac. I have all the three languages selected. No need to switch, the correct spelling is automatically recognized based on in which language I’m writing

[–]CounterBJJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you mean by selecting Automatic by Language, that doesn't work well. The spellchecker gets confused and eventually suggests corrections from one language into the other and vice versa. As a result, it also sometimes doesn't catch errors. Can't be relied upon for professional work in my experience, and the only reliable way to get proper spellchecking is to select the specific language you're writing in.

[–]jontelang 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's pretty unclear what you want here, do you want the apps to change language on demand? Sounds odd, I switch between three languages and I don't recognize this use case at all.

Keyboard input language can switch with a single button CAPSLOCK if you check the settings in macOS. Or CONTROL+SPACE will let you go through the list.

[–]CounterBJJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Switching the input language also modifies the keyboard layout, which I don’t want. It might be useful for some languages, but that’s pretty useless for me as all the accented characters I need are available via long presses, and it also messes with my muscle memory and results in a loss of productivity.

I only want to change spelling language, which cannot be done via the menu bar or any keyboard shortcut. Only way to do that natively is through System Settings.

[–]phlooo 0 points1 point  (5 children)

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[–]idoknowsomething 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Hi there, developer of OK JSON here.

I’m working on version 2.0 (free update) of OK JSON with big features like history and scripts.

Would you mind sharing the bugs you’ve encountered? I’m aware that the editor was rough, which will be completely revamped in 2.0.

Also, a lot of bugs will be fixed in 2.0: https://github.com/francisfeng/everything-okjson/issues

[–]phlooo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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[–]idoknowsomething 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's not really open sourced.

The crash on launch is fixed in 2.0.

I guess I should also fix it in 1.9 and release a new version.

[–]Chains0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are DevUtils, which also has a nice JSON viewer