headbirth's dashboard

headbirth replied on June 28, 2009 14:16 to the idea "How attached are you to the menu-bar attachment?" in Second Gear:

Nice. Maybe your solution is a tear-off menu. So, it can be torn away to be persistent or fold back up to be out of the way. I recall an old OS 9 app that allowed menus to be torn-off. Think it was called Custom Menus by Marc Moni?

headbirth replied on June 28, 2009 02:44 to the idea "How attached are you to the menu-bar attachment?" in Second Gear:

I wouldn't be a fan of having it show-up in the dock. If it were strictly executed as a background app activated with a key stroke, that would be fine.

headbirth replied on January 17, 2009 18:06 to the idea "Check Off Transition" in Second Gear:

Just adjust your sheet speed in the terminal and the menu will simply snap down:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .003

headbirth replied on January 09, 2009 15:02 to the question "What sort of AppleScript stuff do you need?" in Second Gear:

Maybe you should consider offering Commandline support ... a simple commandline access to Today as well as CheckOff would be sweet!

headbirth replied on November 18, 2008 15:14 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned ithere, but an encryption feature for notes would be awesome.

headbirth replied on October 09, 2008 15:20 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

If there's any way to have CheckOff Export only selected items to an RTF(D) file that would be of great help to me or even have a drag and drop export of selected items.

headbirth replied on September 25, 2008 19:09 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

or even the interface of Things ...http://culturedcode.com/things/

headbirth replied on September 05, 2008 13:54 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Something along the lines of Dejumble (www.dejumble.com) would be nice.

headbirth replied on July 30, 2008 13:01 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Oh, two more items I forgot to mention:

**The ability to either duplicate a set of items or a template feature!!!!

I modified the nib file to move the list above the text field and added the image support in.

Thanks!

headbirth replied on July 16, 2008 12:15 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Justin, I DEFINITELY prefer the retracting menu to a floating window!

What I love about CheckOff 3 is that it's not a ridged work environment. I actually use it for many different things, not just a task list.

I would be interested in seeing these added.

*** Support for multiple lists, maybe as tabs

***Add a Ruler to the text fields with Styles, Lists, etc.. like TextEdit has

****Save on List Retraction

Support for images ... larger files

*** A drag and drop export of selected items only rather than the whole list. It could create a folder and subfolders on the desktop with rtf files inside. Remove the check box for folders

** Put the notification of completed items (3-5) or 50% back in the folders name as an option like the original CheckOff had

* add a service or hotkey to grab text from open apps and create new items in CheckOff from them

headbirth replied on March 21, 2008 13:25 to the idea "genie effect" in Second Gear:

How do you get the Genie effect? Mine just pops straight down.

headbirth replied on February 23, 2008 14:55 to the question "Question: The check mark icon doesn't appear automatically when I boot up. I have to open Finder, then Apps., etc. Is there a way for the application to open automatically?" in Second Gear:

open the Check Off preferences (gear icon) and check the item to start on login.

headbirth replied on February 18, 2008 19:28 to the discussion "Check Off 3.8 Officially Released!" in Second Gear:

I'm not familiar with Applescript, but I'll check into it. Is there any chance you can add to the code a condition that it automatically saves when the sheet/window closes? This would ensure a persons changes are saved.

headbirth replied on February 16, 2008 14:04 to the discussion "Check Off 3.8 Officially Released!" in Second Gear:

hmm.... that's odd i can add an item change it's name. click off it and then close the list do a killall -3 -c 'Check Off'
restart check off and my edit isn't saved.

i'm also noticing that i don't always get a warning when i delete an item it just does it which can be bad when this app doesn't have an undo command.

i'm using 10.4.11 by the way

headbirth replied on February 15, 2008 18:11 to the discussion "Request: I use it and like it lots. I request two betterments:" in Second Gear:

Use the hot key in preferences to open the list or replace the resource Black Check.png with a snapshot of your menu bar and checkmark. Currently the icon has a transparent background so you have to click directly on the check to get it to open

headbirth replied on February 15, 2008 15:37 to the discussion "Request: I use it and like it lots. I request two betterments:" in Second Gear:

Here's how:

In terminal enter:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .003

adjust the number until the speed is desirable.

or use an app like OnyX to do it for you.

headbirth replied on February 15, 2008 13:52 to the discussion "Check Off 3.8 Officially Released!" in Second Gear:

Great job with 3.8 Justin.

I'm having a little trouble. Not sure if this is a Check Off bug or a result of using the killall command.

I've been using this shell script I created in combination with OnMyCommand to swap my Check Off lists. It works great, but I'm finding that the last edits made to my Check Off files are not always saved when the script is executed and the app is quit and then relaunched after swapping files.

How often does Check Off save information? I was assuming it did it immediately.

path1="/Users/username/Library/Preferences"
path2="/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Check Off"
path3="/Users/username/Desktop"
status=$(defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.carpeaqua.checkoff FileCategory)
choice="__INPUT_TEXT__"

killall -3 -c 'Check Off'

if [ $status = $choice ] ; then
open -a '/Users/username/Library/Menu Extras/Check Off.app'
exit
else
cp -f "$path1/com.carpeaqua.checkoff.plist" "$path2/Temporary Backups/$status Backup.plist"
mv -i "$path1/com.carpeaqua.checkoff.plist" "$path2/$status.plist"
mv -i "$path2/$choice.plist" "$path1/com.carpeaqua.checkoff.plist"
open -a '/Users/username/Library/Menu Extras/Check Off.app'
fi

headbirth replied on February 15, 2008 13:51 to the discussion "Request: I use it and like it lots. I request two betterments:" in Second Gear:

Adjust your systems sheet-speed to get a quicker animation.

headbirth replied on February 13, 2008 16:58 to the discussion "Check Off 3.7.1 Beta 1" in Second Gear:

Thanks Justin.

I also noticed that url links in the text area doesn't launch Safari. I have to use the CM to copy the link and paste it into Safari.

headbirth replied on February 11, 2008 14:41 to the discussion "Check Off 3.7.1 Beta 1" in Second Gear:

Is it possible to add the ruler you find in TextEdit to the CheckOff text entry area to more easily access tab control, tables, styles, etc...?