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Later — Save all your Mac apps for later with one click
Later is a Mac menu bar app that clears and restores your workspace with ease. Switch off from work, tidy up your desktop before screen sharing, schedule apps for later, and more.
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@alyssaxuu I remember your tweet where you mentioned you started learning Swift. This small app is really useful.
@alyssaxuu Thanks so much for the Killer App! That's amazing and most needed app for us as this era, we never shut down our machine any more.
Love the little demo on the website! Suggestion: make the FAQ part of the main site instead of redirecting to Notion (the subsequent redirects are not a great experience).
Question: by default, Later only hides app, same as what happens after you hit ⌘H, right? That’s how the session is preserved intact. But if I select “Quit apps instead of hiding”, then it quits the apps and relaunches them. In that case, my tabs won’t be restored, right? For example, if I have multiple spreadsheets open in Excel, Later will relaunch the app, but will not open the specific files too.
@anna_0x Thank you! I might move the FAQ into the main site, it's just easier to edit and add to it if it's in Notion :P
And yes, by default it hides the apps only. In terms of relaunching, it depends on the app, for example Chrome, Notion, Figma... will save state. But other apps like Safari won't by default. I believe apps generally have settings for this, but it's not something I can override with Later altogether, it has to be set by the user manually sadly.
I typically open up all the same apps every time I reboot. Love the simplicity of simple workflow apps like this.
@alyssaxuu Ok, thanks Alyssa. Not sure if it fits my workflow as it is, but it certainly is nice to have tools like this made for the Mac.
@t55 I found an app that supports multiple workspaces and open the apps files and/or tabs. You can find it here: https://www.metatechcreations.co...
@nighthawk11120 Yup, I'll ask if there will be a trial version in the future. Not sure to spend 50% on something that I can't check myself. But thanks for the heads-up!
I just bought it and started using it, this is something I really needed and that will be very useful for me. Congrats on the launch @alyssaxuu!
This looks truly great! And oh my god, I love your website 😍 Such a smart way to explain your product!
I love the landing page, good practice of "show me the magic" :)
Well done 👏 and congrats for the launch. @alyssaxuu
This is really neat and just bought it! Quick question - how does Later impact RAM and CPU load?
@alyssaxuu wow this is beautiful, thank you! Is this a native Later reporting if not what tool!?
I like it. Is there any additional battery savings from hiding other than the no need to render them?
@klohnatomas The battery savings are mostly from using the "quit apps" option in the popup. It was the default option on launch but I switched it around. Although I am investigating ways to block network usage for hidden apps among other things at the moment.
@alyssaxuu Who made the great demo video for "Later" ???? … really well done. How was it made?
@rowemore Haha thanks, I made it myself :) I wrote about how I made it in this Medium article: https://medium.com/women-make/ho...
Such a nice product and great landing page! Love following along your journey with your newsletter. Thanks @alyssaxuu !
@andrew_breck Thank you so much! And yes, sessions are saved between restarts :)
@alyssaxuu do you plan to support multiple sessions in the future?
So I can have multiple group of apps saved and restored depending on my needs?
I have two seperate machines for Office and 'Non Office' work. But this is hilarious! Great job with the demo too.
Love the app and your landing page! @fariz_hakim @giacomo_bottoli Check this out!
@choudhary I've contacted them to see if they could add it, but sadly they haven't replied to me yet
Small, tidy, useful and to the point as always. Congrats @alyssaxuu on the launch, good luck!
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