Frogtab dev plan October 2024
I'm planning to release several improvements later this month:
Send to Frogtab – I'm removing Send to Frogtab from the menu. The main purpose of Send to Frogtab is to enable you to capture tasks without revealing your inbox, so it doesn't really make sense to open Send to Frogtab via the menu.
Also, for a first-time user exploring the menu and clicking through to Send to Frogtab, there's no obvious reason for Send to Frogtab to exist. To summarize, it's a niche feature, and I don't think it belongs in the menu.
Achievements – I'm reorganizing the help page so that the Achievements feature is explained in a more approachable way. Currently, the docs for Achievements bury the simple method of completing tasks (⌘+K or Ctrl+K) inside a discussion of the more complicated method (text-based commands that begin with "x").
I'm rewriting the "Tracking your completed tasks" topic so that it leads with the simple method and I'm moving the more complicated method to a new topic called "Completion commands".
As well as making Achievements more approachable, I want to make it more discoverable. So I'm giving Achievements a spot in the menu, regardless of whether the feature is enabled. Currently, Achievements only appears in the menu if the feature is enabled.
Keyboard navigation – Keyboard support in Frogtab has always been a mixed bag. There are keyboard shortcuts for most task-management actions, but many navigation actions (e.g., opening the menu) require a mouse. I want to do better on accessibility, and keyboard navigation feels like a great place to start. I'm making sure that every part of Frogtab can be used without a mouse.
Other things I'm working on this month:
The next version of Frogtab Local will include a way to stop Frogtab Local via your browser. This will be useful if you've set Frogtab Local to run at startup and want to stop it for some reason.
I'm working on a blog post that will explain how to send tasks to Frogtab via a terminal instead of your personal link. Look out for that later in October 🎃