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I'm on my second try of Slidepad, the first time giving up because it didn't support anything I used, despite its tagline that it did. I am finding it more useful now but I still have some major complaints. The interface and menu commands are not intuitive and there is zero documentation tell you how to use it, neither within the app or on their website. Launching the app, or starting up your computer if you have it set to boot at login, immediately starts Youtube from a hidden Slidepad. The first time was incredibly annoying seeing no apps open and no idea where the sound was coming from. I am guessing it's "Auto-mute" in its menu, but I'm taking a wild guess because there's NO DOCUMENTATION. And if that's my only option, I also don't want it to be running Youtube videos that I'm not aware of in the background. Bringing up the Activity Monitor, anything that you have set up in Slidepad toolbar is actively running and using CPU, even if you haven't brought Slidepad out yet. While it's negligible, showing about .5-2% being used by each app, I don't understand why it doesn't put them to sleep, waking them up when I slide it out. I will probably not have it start at login and launch it when I'm needing to multi-task between apps.

Potter Dai

Slidepad

Maker

Hello, I'm the maker of Slidepad! Very surprised to see it posted here! = ) Thank you @buzzb0x for sharing it! Slidepad is my very first Mac App, if you happen to encounter any problems or have any suggestions, please do tell me! = ) I made Slidepad simply because I was very fascinated by the idea of Station, but found it too heavy for me to use it every day. In the end, all I need is a simple tool that allows me to glance at it and do a quick action, like taking down a to-do or sending a quick message. So I hybrid Helium, Station, and slide-over window from iPad, Slidepad was born. I do hope you guys will like it! =D

6yr ago

Ethan

Hunter

@potter_dai I added you as the Maker :) Two things: the Download button is broken; you should have an about page or at least Twitter link and everything!

@buzzb0x I hear you, sorry for the poor support at current stage. I didn't expect to get featured from Product Hunt, and didn't get well prepared. Haha, my bad! Will definitely catch up soon! = )

Son Nun

@buzzb0x @potter_dai Or, the window can also be made both right and left. Or can be seen at the bottom or upper part of the window. At the same time. These are ideas. I would love to talk to the subject.

3yr ago

Discovered this little utility on a news article from macg.co (French Apple related media) and it is exactly what I was looking for when using Franz or Helium but it actually works. You can put whatever you want on the floating window and access it quickly from any space. The bonus is that I think it's a Safari webview, not yet another Electron app, so it seems light on battery and CPU. Don't know who made this but thanks a lot!

Florian Egermann

fax2nft

Great idea & app! I especially like that it is based on Safari. A shortcut to switch between spaces would be great.

@tafkaf Hi, thank you very much for the suggestion! Tab-switching has been implemented in the next update, hopefully to be released today or tomorrow, stay tuned! = )

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