Main Thing 0.7.6

Main Thing 0.7.6.

Main Thing 0.7.5

MacBooks with a camera notch

• An empty list now rests as a black shape the camera's width with rounded bottom corners, not a sharp rectangle.
• The part below the menu bar is 26pt, so the title has more room below it.
• Checked on a real 14-inch MacBook Pro notch. The 16-inch MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air are not checked yet.

Main Thing 0.7.4

MacBooks with a camera notch

• The black under the camera now reaches 3pt past each side of it, so no lit strip of menu bar shows at its edges on any MacBook.
• The black shape no longer fades while the list opens or closes. With an empty list, a black strip covers the camera and grows into the list.

Main Thing 0.7.3

MacBooks with a camera notch

• The closed notch is shorter: the part below the menu bar is 24pt instead of 30pt, with the title centered in it. It hangs less far down the screen.
• The open list does not change.

Main Thing 0.7.2

MacBooks with a camera notch

• The black shape under the camera now reaches 1pt past each side of it. This closes a thin lit strip of menu bar that could show between the camera and the list on some MacBooks.

Main Thing 0.7.1

Hide from the command line

• main-thing hide, main-thing show and main-thing hidden (prints true or false).
• The same in the local API: POST /hide, POST /show and GET /hidden.

The README demo now shows the undo without the Undo row.

Main Thing 0.7.0

Hide

• Right click the notch and choose Hide Main Thing. The closed notch folds into the menu bar row and shows only the color dot. On a MacBook with a camera notch, the dot sits in a small wing left of the camera. On a screen with no notch, it sits in the center of a small pill.
• Hover still opens the full list. Show Main Thing brings the task back. Main Thing remembers the choice.
• A Hide or show shortcut is in Settings, Shortcuts. It has no key until you set one.

Undo without the Undo row

• A task you cross off or discard now leaves the list at once. No Undo row shows.
• For 4 seconds, Command Z in the open list still brings it back to its old place. Hooks and adapters, such as Linear complete, still wait those 4 seconds.

Main Thing 0.6.3

MacBooks with a camera notch

• The black top in the menu bar row and the list below it now open and close as one shape. There is no step at the join while it animates.
• The task title no longer shows the short and the full version on top of each other while the list opens or closes.

Macs without a camera notch do not change.

Main Thing 0.6.2

MacBooks with a camera notch

• The closed notch is now exactly the camera's width and hangs straight down from it. A long task title ends with "…". Hover to see the full title.
• The open list now fills the menu bar row above it with black, up to the top of the screen, with the same curved top corners as on a Mac without a notch. The menu bar beside the list still takes clicks.

Macs without a camera notch do not change.

Main Thing 0.6.1

Main Thing 0.6.1 adds full keyboard control, undo, and a reminder you will notice.

New

• Keyboard control. After Show list, Add task or a click in the list, the list has the keyboard: arrows and Tab move, Return crosses off, E renames, Delete discards, Option and the arrows move a task, N adds, Escape closes.
• Undo. A task you cross off or discard can come back for 4 seconds. The word Undo fills with white as the time runs out. Click it or press Command Z. A cross off reaches its hook and adapter (for example Linear) only when the 4 seconds end.
• Adapters in Settings. A new Adapters tab turns Linear and Open Brain on, keeps their keys in the macOS Keychain, and checks the connection. Both adapters are built in now. If you set one up by hand before, it turns on by itself and keeps working.
• A stronger reminder. Every few minutes the notch hops, glows in the reminder color and sparkles. An optional Reminder sound is in Settings.
• Hear sounds before you pick them. Move the pointer through the sound menus in Settings, or press the play button.
• Settings in tabs, a shorter right click menu, and a Keyboard Shortcuts submenu that lists every shortcut.

Fixed

• A reminder no longer fires twice in a row.

Install

Download MainThing-0.6.1.dmg, drag it to Applications, then right click Main Thing and choose Open the first time (the app is not signed with an Apple developer certificate). If you have 0.2.0 or later, the update installs on its own.

Requires macOS 15 or later.