Quickeys

A mac menu bar app that provides note taking functionality though a quick dropdown menu.

Stars
61
Forks
7
Open issues
1
Closed issues
12
Last release
almost 4 years ago
Last commit
over 3 years ago
Watchers
61
Total releases
7
Total commits
96
Open PRs
0
Closed PRs
1
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Platform
Mac
Category
Offers premium version?
NO
Proprietary?
NO
About

Quickeys

A mac menu bar app that provides note taking and other functionality through a quick dropdown window. Please download the most recent release and drag the zip file to your Applications folder. From there, double click the zip file to unpack the application. After doing so, you may delete the zip file.

Building and running

  1. Install cocoapods if you do not have it already. Run either sudo gem install cocoapods or brew install cocoapods, whichever you prefer.
  2. Run pod install in the root of the cloned repository.
  3. Open Quickeys.xcworkspace in Xcode and let it restore any Swift Package Manager dependencies.
  4. Click the Play button (build and run the current scheme) in Xcode.

Quickeys should now be running!

Features

Quickeys has a variety of smaller hidden features:

  • Press cmd + shift + 8 to toggle the Quickeys window from anywhere on your computer
  • Press cmd+enter to search highlighted or all text on target
  • Press alt/option + enter to generate and copy a pastebin link of highlighted or all text
  • Click and drag anywhere outside of the text box and buttons to resize the window vertically
  • Autosaves your notes so they do not get lost if you quit the app.

Contributing

If you are looking to run or contribute to this project, you will need an ApiKeys.plist file for the pastebin functionality to work. The file should be placed in the Resources directory, and should contain a single key-value pair:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>API_KEY</key>
    <string>your-key-here</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Pods

This project uses MASShortcut.

Carthage

This project uses LaunchAtLogin.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause. The full license can be viewed here.

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