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Squirrel Trap v1.6.0

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@jtoeman jtoeman released this 07 Aug 13:52
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v1.6.0
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What's New

  • New: color tags for to-dos. Tag any pending item with one of 16 preset colors from a small palette icon on the row — a lightweight way to categorize at a glance (Trello-style), independent of favorites or reminders. This one's for you, JT!
  • New: streaks and a daily activity graph. A quiet "🔥 N days" counter plus today's completed count now sits on the main panel. Preferences has a new Activity tab with a 7-day bar chart, your best single-day count, and your average tasks per day.
  • Fixed an iCloud sync bug: if a sync push failed partway through, the affected items could be silently and permanently excluded from ever syncing again. Failed pushes are now retried normally like everything else.
  • Fixed the text field sometimes not regaining focus when returning to the main panel from Preferences.

Known issue

Escape doesn't always close the panel in this release — click the X or use the menu bar icon to dismiss it instead. A fix is in progress and will ship in a quick follow-up (v1.6.1).

Installing (first time)

  1. Download Squirrel Trap.zip below and unzip it.
  2. Drag Squirrel Trap.app to your Applications folder (or anywhere you like).
  3. Open it. It's signed and notarized by Apple, so it launches normally — no security warnings or workarounds needed.
  4. On first launch, grant Input Monitoring permission when prompted — this is what lets it detect Cmd+Tab. It's passive and never records anything else you type.

Updating (already have it installed)

  1. Quit Squirrel Trap (menu bar icon → Quit, or the Quit button in Preferences).
  2. Download Squirrel Trap.zip below and unzip it.
  3. Drag the new Squirrel Trap.app to Applications, replacing the old one.
  4. Relaunch.

Your to-do history, favorites, and preferences are all stored separately and aren't touched by replacing the app.

Squirrel Trap also checks for updates automatically and will show a link in the app when a newer version is available — you'll still need to come back here to download it, per the above.

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0

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