v1.6.0
The window has been rebuilt around a sidebar, and everything that could give space back now sits on one pane.
Reclaim space
Duplicates, big files and old dated folders were spread over Filing and Clearing — which is where their settings belong, but not where the question belongs. All three answer "how much of this could go?", so they now share a pane, each showing what it found and the top few rows of it.
Could be freed, at the top, adds the three up. They overlap — a big file can sit inside a folder old enough to clear, and a duplicate copy can be both — so each byte is counted once, by the widest thing that would take it.
Big files and old dated folders are found by reading names, sizes and dates, so they now run when the window opens and the answer is already there when you arrive. Duplicates keep their button: matching copies means reading the candidates end to end, and that is not something to start behind your back.
Nothing about what moves, or where, or when has changed. The scans still only read, and everything you tick still goes to the Trash.
A sidebar instead of five tabs
Overview and Reclaim space at the top, the four rules that decide what happens — Schedule, Filing, Type folders, Clearing — grouped under a heading, then the activity log and the general settings. Five tabs had reached the point where Filing held four unrelated things at once.
The header shrank to a band: the app's name, what it does in a line, and the on/off switch. The foot of the sidebar says which folder all of this is about and what it is holding, whichever pane is open.
Overview shows the folder as it stands
It used to draw a sketch of a tidy Downloads folder — the right idea with the wrong contents, since it was the same picture whatever was actually in there. It is now the real listing: the type folders, the dated folders newest first, then whatever is still loose. What it marks as due comes from the same planner a sweep uses, so the panel and a sweep cannot disagree about a file.
Beside it, Waiting for you says how much could go and links straight into the review that deals with it.
A palette of its own
#ffd43b is the accent now, taken from the Demo Time theme along with the surfaces around it. Colour means something again rather than everything urgent being orange: the accent marks what the app put there and what it is about to touch, red is kept for faults, blue for a button that only navigates, green for running and watching. Every token has a light value and a dark one, so the window still follows the system appearance — what it no longer follows is the system accent colour.
Also
- Open Tideline (⌘O) now sits at the top of the menu bar actions and comes up on whichever pane you left. Settings… keeps ⌘, and earns the name by landing on Filing.
- Open at login moved to the status card on Overview. Filing only happens while Tideline is running, so the switch that decides that belongs next to the thing that shows it.
Install — download Tideline-1.6.0-macos-universal.zip below, unzip it, and drag Tideline.app into /Applications. An installed copy offers this on its own within a day; General › Updates › Check Now asks straight away.
Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0