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QWER 0.12.0

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@panavrin panavrin released this 02 Oct 15:50
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  • Pause a recording. Focus has Pause and Resume next to Stop. Paused time doesn't count toward the task and is left out of its review.
  • Recordings pause by themselves when you're away: the screen locks, the Mac sleeps, or there's no keyboard or mouse input for 5 minutes, counted from when you left. When you're back, a notification says so; Resume in Focus carries on.
  • Coming back to QWER while a task records or is paused shows Focus (⌘Tab, the Dock or the menu bar).
  • Quick lengths in Focus: 25 min, 30 min, 50 min and 1 hr pills under the timer. Before starting they set the length and Start begins right away; while recording they change the session's planned time. The task menu lists the most urgent tasks first.
  • Forgot to stop? A session's review shows when it ended, which you can change to earlier, and suggests the likely end when it ran well past its plan ("Planned 30 min. End it at 11:30 AM"). What came after no longer counts for the task.
  • Simpler reviews: apps used under a minute aren't shown (their time still counts), the review in Focus can be closed with × and stays closed, and while recording Focus shows the apps used without the colored strip.
  • Does a task's time count as productive? Each task now has its own answer. Until you decide, its apps keep their own levels. Momentum asks once, when a task has 10 minutes or more in apps that aren't productive; you can change the answer in the task's details.
  • The day strip shows when a task was recorded, as a thin red line (point at it for the task), and where this Mac and another Mac overlap, it shows this Mac.
  • What you worked on moved to Momentum (shown when TaskScape is on). Momentum's Apps list no longer has task buttons, and TaskScape's list starts with its own heading.
  • Fixes: Open task (from Focus, a review or Momentum) works after you've visited TaskScape, and the AI assistant explains the score correctly.

Which Macs: QWER works on Macs running macOS 12 Monterey or later, with Apple silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4 or later) or an Intel processor. Download the file for yours: …-arm64.dmg for Apple silicon, …-x64.dmg for Intel. To check, open the Apple menu → About This Mac: "Chip: Apple M…" means Apple silicon, "Processor: … Intel" means Intel. Tested on macOS 14 Sonoma (Apple silicon; the Intel version was tested there too, through Rosetta).

QWER isn't notarized by Apple yet, so the first time you open it you may need System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. It needs Screen Recording permission to capture your screen.

QWER is in testing, so versions start with 0 until its public release. Versions 0.1.0 to 0.1.9 were shared as 1.0.0 to 1.0.9.