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Quietwhile 0.3.4

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@orlandoascanio orlandoascanio released this 10 Oct 17:03
· 47 commits to main since this release
  • LockIn is now called Quietwhile. Updating keeps your settings, history, schedules, permissions, widgets, Shortcuts and Focus filters. Your data is copied to ~/Library/Application Support/Quietwhile/ on first launch; the old LockIn folder is left untouched.

  • Quietwhile plays a chime when a focus block or a break runs out. It plays from the app itself, so you still hear it with notifications off, with Do Not Disturb or another Focus mode on, or while you are in a full-screen app. Pick the sound, or turn it off, in Settings › General › When time is up (Glass by default).

  • The notifications for those moments now arrive silently while the chime is on, so you don't hear two sounds at once.

  • Skipping or ending something yourself doesn't play the chime.

  • The "Break is done" window now opens over whatever is in front, including a full-screen app, instead of on the desktop behind it.

  • A redesigned floating HUD:

    • It rests as a small pill with just the ring and the time. Hover over it to see the phase, your goal, and End session. Prefer it bigger? Choose Large.
    • It fades while you work (to 35% by default, or 60%, 20%, or not at all) and comes back on hover, when the phase changes, and for the last minute.
    • For reading, it can let clicks pass straight through to what is underneath. Hold Option to use it.
    • Drag it anywhere; it snaps to corners, edges and the middle, and it remembers where it sits on each display. It now starts in the top right, under the menu bar.
    • Breaks are slate blue, the last minute turns amber, and it pulses once at 0:00 with the chime.
    • It shows your goal instead of the guarded-apps line, and a single progress ring instead of a ring and a bar.
    • Right-click it for size, fading, click-through, moving it back to the top right, and Unpin, which no longer sits next to End session. Unpinning tells you how to pin it again. The same options are in Settings › General.
  • A clearer "This week" chart on the Focus page:

    • Each day is measured against a 2-hour daily goal, shown as a dotted line, instead of against the week's best day. One day of focus no longer fills the whole chart.
    • Slim bars with rounded tops and the time above each one. A past day with no focus shows "–", and days still to come are empty slots.
    • The header shows the week's total, and how it compares with last week up to the same point, or your daily average when there is nothing to compare.
    • Days are labelled Mon, Tue, Wed…, and the week starts on the day your Mac's region settings use.
    • Hover over a day to see its sessions and every category you focused on, with the time for each.
  • The Analytics "Focus over time" chart matches it:

    • Slim bars with rounded tops instead of bars as wide as the whole day.
    • Day labels sit under their bars instead of at the line between days.
    • The scale goes past the best day to the next gridline instead of ending at it, and the axis reads in hours ("1h 30m", "2h") rather than "100m".
    • Daily charts show the same dotted daily-goal line as the Focus page, and charts by week or month keep the average line.
    • Each bar shows its time when there is room.
  • During a break, the HUD shows the break suggestion (such as "Stretch") instead of your goal.

  • Break suggestions you do, not just read:

    • Each one is guided on the Focus page: a breathing circle that grows and shrinks for four rounds of box breathing, a 20-second ring for your eyes with a soft chime at the end, three timed stretches with progress dots, a posture checklist, a glass that fills when you've had your water, and a "Back in 4:30" countdown for a walk.
    • New: push-ups and squats, paced rep by rep. If you had every suggestion on, they're on for you too.
    • "Did it" counts it ("You stretched 4 times this week", "3 glasses today"), and so does finishing a guide. "Another one" swaps it for something you haven't seen this break.
    • Suggestions fit the break: breathing or your eyes for a short one, a walk for a long one, and something that gets you moving after three blocks in a row. The same one never comes twice in a row.
    • In Settings › Breaks, each suggestion shows its icon, with a checkmark when it's on, and you can preview any of them.
  • Settings › General no longer repeats the focus and break durations, which are set on the Focus page, and the Appearance section loses its extra line of text.

Removed

  • The Integrations page, with Slack status, Discord status and Discord recaps. They took too much setup for what they gave back. Quietwhile no longer sends anything to other services; only the update check goes online. Your other settings are kept, and the recap card after a run still lets you copy the recap.

Fixes

  • Messages like "Added gmail.com." under Settings and Blocked now go away after a few seconds instead of staying until you leave the page.
  • The floating HUD can be moved again. Dragging it did nothing before.
  • Guarding gmail.com now also guards mail.google.com, where Gmail actually opens. Before, a gmail.com rule never matched anything. twitter.com and x.com now cover each other the same way.
  • When a browser hasn't given Quietwhile its OK, the Focus page now says that websites aren't guarded there, with a link straight to the Websites tab to allow it. Before, the only signs were one notification and a badge on the Blocked page, so guarded sites could open freely without you noticing.

Also new since 0.3.2

0.3.3 was never published, so its changes arrive with this update:

  • Quietwhile now asks before ending a session, skipping a focus block, or quitting while one is running, and says how much time is left and what History will record. The safe answer is the default; turn it off with "Don't ask again" or in Settings › General.
  • Deleting a schedule asks first too.
  • Shortcuts and the Focus filter still end a session without a dialog.