Tend 2.9

Nudge is now Tend

Same app, new name. Tend changes the words and the layout of a self-contained HTML deck or report without opening a code editor, and leaves everything you did not touch exactly as it was. The name now sits with its siblings, Trellis and Sage: it tends a deck that is already planted, one small change at a time.

Nothing about how it edits has changed.

If you already use Nudge, you do not need to do anything. Nudge 2.8 keeps working. If you do switch:

• Tend installs as a separate app, so it sits alongside Nudge rather than replacing it. Move Nudge to the Bin when you are happy.
• Its backups go to a new folder, ~/Library/Application Support/Tend/Backups. Nudge's backups stay where they were, in ~/Library/Application Support/Nudge/Backups; nothing is moved or deleted.
• macOS asks once on first launch, as it did for Nudge, because to macOS this is a new app.
• Window size and recent files start fresh.

The About box and the help say "formerly Nudge", and the menu commands for moving things by a step are still called Nudge Left, Right, Up and Down, which is the usual Mac name for that.

Installing

1. Download Tend-2.9.zip and unzip it.
2. Drag Tend into Applications.
3. Double-click it. macOS will refuse and say it cannot check it for malicious software. Open System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway next to Tend. You only do this once.

Apple silicon Macs running macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. About 1 MB: there is no bundled runtime, just AppKit and WebKit.

The guide is attached, and there is more detail at https://chriskeene.me/tend