Gestimer – For little reminders during the day

http://maddin.io/gestimer/

by daralthus • 11 years ago

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testusmaximus• 11 years ago

Is there an option to set the time with a keyboard?

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

No, sorry. See this answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744176

altharaz• 11 years ago

I think the gesture to set time is not very practical. Can we use the keyboard instead ? I'd love to press a key shortcut to create a reminder, and just with a few keystrokes to also set the time.

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

No, you cannot use the keyboard. I made it like this because in my opinion it just feels a lot nicer to just drag & drop then be done with it.

I am sure there are a lot of other apps that will do what you need. For example Fantastical (http://flexibits.com/fantastical) or even apps like Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com).

oneeyedpigeon2• 11 years ago

Damn; was in the process of purchasing, then I realised it requires 10.10. If/when I upgrade, I'll probably buy - looks really nice and effective, and genuinely fills a need (can't quite believe this isn't built into the OS, tbh).

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

Sorry that it requires OS X 10.10. I do know that many people haven't upgraded for various reasons. The thing is I wrote the app with Swift and I won't be able to support Mavericks until I can submit the app with Swift 2.0 which lets me target a different OS version. If you want then you can subscribe at the bottom of the page and I'll remind you about Gestimer once OS X 10.11 is out.

jimmygoodboy• 11 years ago

Would you mind sharing any of your experience building it with Swift?

jbrooksuk2• 11 years ago

I use OSX every day, but I immediately thought that this was a Ubuntu app because of the wallpaper colours and dark mode used in the screenshots and demo.

Although the gesture to set the time is super cool, how practical is it?

oneeyedpigeon2• 11 years ago

Your question just inspired me to find out something new: the menubar volume control works (just about) the same way, which is actually really convenient.

superchink• 11 years ago

Can you clarify what you mean? On OS X, the menubar volume control doesn't seem to have a similar interaction model. I.e., I can't click/drag to change the volume. I have to click, then click on the little control to move the slider. Is this not what you meant?

wingerlang• 11 years ago

Nice. I've always wanted to implement something similar to that gesture for timebased selections.

mp3geek• 11 years ago

For a moment there I thought it was Ubuntu

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

Sorry about that. Do I need to make a command line version now :P?

amelius• 11 years ago

So it is like a simple kitchen timer but with a linear rather than a circular interface.

diminutivesloop• 11 years ago

If this synced with the system reminders I'd be sold.

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

You are not the first person to ask for this so I'm definitely considering it. It's a 1.0 release after all so if you have suggestions then please let me know :)

tremendo2• 11 years ago

I like the UI concept, quite cool. I've been a user for reminders since for…ever and in my experience I rarely need relative time (something in 30 min.) vs. absolute time (remind me 5 minutes before 10 O'Clock), and of course Calendar apps do that, but it's not as easy to set up.

tremendo2• 11 years ago

ah sill me, I now noticed you do include absolute time in the UI, I missed it on first look, so I would prefer it being the more prominent one. Perhaps a setting?

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

Let me know if you still think so once you've tried out Gestimer. Someone's gotta use Apple's fancy vibrant API right? :P

silveira• 11 years ago

Beautiful. I would download if it was for Ubuntu, which I thought it was.

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

Sorry about that. Maybe once Apple open-sources Swift :)? I might be able to do something then.

Splendor2• 11 years ago

I'm not crazy about autoplaying video.

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

The alternative was to use a gif which would have looked awful in comparison. The video is really small (1.6MB).

Splendor2• 11 years ago

Or let the user click the play button instead of autoplaying?

innguest• 11 years ago

Very clever UI, very clever indeed. You get my money.

Please don't make the time keyboard-settable. ;)

I really appreciate apps that get out of my way and what you made is just that. That's why I use macs. Thanks for being one of those developers.

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

Thank you very much for the nice compliment :)

lectrick• 11 years ago

In an office setting, this is definitely more convenient than "Siri, remind me in 1 hour to grab some coffee" :)

iMaddin12• 11 years ago

or "Siri, remind me to pretend to work when my manager walks by" :P

satyajeet23• 11 years ago

Simplicity! I love it.

Gestimer – For little reminders during the day

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