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Posted by Hugh
Aug 24, 2015 at 11:01 AM

Of niche interest, but anyone with a Mac who wishes to ornament their desktop with changing information may want to look at Übersicht, a (free) alternative to GeekTool and NerdTool in the business of displaying key data on the desktop (as its name suggests). I’ve never used GeekTool or NerdTool, but I believe that Übersicht’s “widget-windows” can be positioned more precisely and reproducibly than GeekTool’s.

Übersicht has a growing number of sometimes quirky widgets. With existing widgets you can view information ranging from the state of your CPU to the state of the solar system; I use Übersicht to put an old-fashioned analogue clock and a list of my daily Omnifocus tasks on my desktop (Cmd-clicking on an item on the desktop list takes me back to the task in Omnifocus 2). Of course, with the right skills you can also roll your own.

Übersicht: http://tracesof.net/übersicht/

Übersicht widgets: http://tracesof.net/ubersicht-widgets/

For those without “geeky” or “nerdy” skills: I’m fairly technically illiterate, but by following the (English) instructions accompanying Übersicht and its widgets, using common sense and with a little bit of experimentation, I had little difficulty in installing the widgets I mentioned above, where I wanted them.

Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM

Thanks, Hugh.

However, both links resulted in 404 pages.
The correct links are
http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/
https://github.com/felixhageloh/uebersicht-widgets

Posted by Hugh
Aug 24, 2015 at 11:46 AM

Many thanks, Franz - that will teach me not to put in umlauts where they don’t need putting in!

Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 24, 2015 at 05:27 PM

I wonder where you found the Ü on your keyboard ;-)

Posted by Hugh
Aug 27, 2015 at 09:23 AM

I hold down the caps key and the “u” key together, and a little pane with various different kinds of accented “U” appears, from which I can choose the “U” I want - is that not what you do? :)

Incidentally, I believe that there are Trello users on this forum. Übersicht has a Trello widget.

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