ContextMove 4.7.1
Closing the window on a Mac now leaves the app running in the background, the
way it always has on Windows, and launching at login no longer opens a window
you did not ask for.
Closing the window keeps capture running
Until now, closing the window on macOS quit the app outright. Capture stopped
the moment you were done looking at your vault — the browser extension had
nothing to talk to, and you would not find out until you went looking for a
conversation that was never saved. On Windows the same click just hides the
window and the tray icon keeps the backend alive.
The Mac had no tray icon to hide behind, and that was deliberate: the library
that draws one talks to the macOS status bar from a thread the system refuses
to accept, which crashed the app at launch. Rather than ship a crash, close
was left to quit — because a window that hides with no way to bring it back is
worse than no feature at all.
macOS already provides the way back, though. The Dock icon is there the whole
time: click it to reopen the window, right-click it to quit. So closing the
window now hides it, and the app keeps running in the Dock with captures
flowing. Opening it again from the Dock, Spotlight or Launchpad brings the
window straight back — all three now do the same thing.
Cmd-W behaves exactly like the close button. Cmd-Q, and Quit from the Dock
icon's menu, still quit properly.
Nothing changes on Windows, where the tray already did this.
Launch at login comes up hidden
Turning on launch at login on a Mac started the app and then put its window in
front of you at every login, which is not what the setting is for. It now
starts quietly in the background, exactly as it does on Windows. The window is
one Dock click away when you want it.
Everything else
Capture, storage, search and the vault format are unchanged from 4.7.0.
Updating keeps everything where it is.
Homebrew installs update with:
brew upgrade --cask context-move/tap/contextmove