Pie Menu
Productivity
macos radial menu
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How HN took it
16 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 17 critical, out of 66 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Idea: 11 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 10 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Radial menu is a useful, creative approach
From 3 comments
This is so creative and super useful!
ji_zai on HNThis just makes sense
lagniappe on HNNice job on the website! That’s sick!
worldmerge on HN
Useful for apps with frequent tool or mode switching
From 1 comment
Nice! I’ve noticed that I tend to use Pie Menu myself on apps where I frequently switch tools. Like Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator etc. Or for apps that have different modes: like…
hauken on HN
Objections
Icons are hard to remember compared to text labels
From 2 comments
This is one of those things that is interesting but I don't immediately dis-like it like so many other ideas looking for a problem to solve. Being that it is so new, the one…
dylan604 on HNIt looks cool, this is not a critique of your work just something I have noticed about myself and curious if others have. I don't know why but I have long struggled with using…
nerdjon on HN
Radial menus are hard to read and overlap content
From 2 comments
They are overrated. They are very hard to read. I prefer a simple linear list 100% of the time.
bufferoverflow on HNargument against the radial menu: the circle partially blocks multiple rows of text content behind that. A single-row menu can be placed above / below the cursor (with margin)…
jerrygoyal on HN
Adobe apps with year-suffixed names not detected
From 1 comment
So for Adobe apps, for which this would be very useful, they install by default as Adobe <appname> <year>, i.e. "Adobe Photoshop 2023". I have several revisions installed for…
yborg on HN
Website scroll performance is poor
From 2 comments
Just a heads up, the marketing site has really bad scroll performance on Android Firefox.
ericyd on HNScrolling the website is painful in Safari latest
tambourine_man on HN
Requests
Show shortcut under icons in the menu
From 1 comment
it would be cool to have an options to show the shortcut under the icon in the radial menu so that over time you learn it, and over time can replace items on the menu to ones you…
pazimzadeh on HN
Non-keyboard trigger such as middle click or trackpad gesture
From 1 comment
This is one of those things that is interesting but I don't immediately dis-like it like so many other ideas looking for a problem to solve. Being that it is so new, the one…
dylan604 on HN
Availability on Homebrew
From 1 comment
Are there plans to make Pie Menu available on Homebrew? I don't install anything from the App Store on mac.
thiht on HN
Support for non-Latin keyboard layouts and German keyboards in demo
From 2 comments
A bug report: the demo on the website doesn't work when you have a non-Latin (e.g. Cyrillic) keyboard layout active.
grishka on HNNice idea! On German keyboards, Z and Y are swapped, so holding SHIFT-Z is not very convenient. You may want to allow both for your demo.
rendx on HN
Questions
What the free tier includes
From 1 comment
What’s the free tier like? I see no explanation of that but it’s free with in-app “unlimited access” purchases.
herpdyderp on HN
How the menu could be made dynamic
From 1 comment
Similar to https://charmstone.app/ but I really enjoy your "contextual" config. I wish it was dynamic somehow, though..
swah on HN
Alternatives named
Charmstone radial menu app
From 2 comments
I've been using radial menu from Charmstone to switch apps on macos for about half a year and it's a really great paradign. Never could memorize too many shortcuts for switching…
fireant on HNSimilar to https://charmstone.app/ but I really enjoy your "contextual" config. I wish it was dynamic somehow, though..
swah on HN
Raycast menu item search
From 1 comment
Another alternative is the "Search Menu Items" command from raycast: https://www.raycast.com/changelog/1-20-0
pomdtr on HN
BetterTouchTool floating menus
From 1 comment
Personally I‘m using BetterTouchTool‘s floating menus for this. These are very powerful because they are fully scriptable and can be triggered in many different ways (although…
tinkertell on HN
Kando cross-platform pie menu
From 1 comment
A cross-platform pie menu: https://github.com/kando-menu/kando I haven't used it, but the readme seems very nice. It might be more focused on app launching.
ilyagr on HN