{"id":21108,"date":"2018-04-05T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21108"},"modified":"2018-04-09T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:32:02","slug":"making-the-touch-bar-useful-by-abandoning-apple-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/making-the-touch-bar-useful-by-abandoning-apple-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Touch Bar Useful by Abandoning Apple Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vas3k.com\/blog\/touchbar\/\">Vasily Zubarev<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=16756863\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/vas3k.com\/blog\/touchbar\/\">\n<p>The Touch Bar should always be predictable. I don&rsquo;t want to remember button configuration for every app. I want it to be useful and informative. Just give me an additional screen, like in the early fan renders.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The grown-up me started to track my everyday habits and search <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/6wdfvo\/share_your_bettertouchtool_touchbar_shortcuts\/\">Reddit<\/a> for ideas. The only proper app for Touch Bar customization I&rsquo;ve found, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boastr.net\">BetterTouchTool<\/a>. It&rsquo;s still buggy, user-hostile and drains the battery, but it only costs $5. Reasonable price, I recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Standard Touch Bar will never support the most useful feature &mdash; to display the name of track playing. Instead, Apple provides you with huge and useless timeline slider. I don&rsquo;t know what&rsquo;s playing but know the moment in time.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A lot of cool guys wanted to share their presets too, so we created a GitHub-repo for that. Feel free to add your own: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vas3k\/btt-touchbar-presets\">github.com\/vas3k\/btt-touchbar-presets<\/a>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/making-better-use-of-the-touch-bar\/\">Making Better Use of the Touch Bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-04-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrbrmstr\/status\/983302902591754240\">hrbrmstr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrbrmstr\/status\/983302902591754240\">\n<p>Combining @boastr_net&rsquo;s BetterTouchTool &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/holman\/spark\">@holman&rsquo;s spark<\/a> to add auto-updating sparklines to the macOS Touch Bar<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasily Zubarev (via Hacker News): The Touch Bar should always be predictable. I don&rsquo;t want to remember button configuration for every app. I want it to be useful and informative. Just give me an additional screen, like in the early fan renders. 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