Personal Menu 4+
Ivo Wessel
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- Free
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Description
The “Personal Menu” app lives in the menu bar. With it, your most important programs, directories, files and clipboard texts are always just a mouse click away, since you can configure them as a menu in the central menu bar.
Under “Settings...” open a window with a browser in which you can drag and drop programs, directories and files directly from the Finder. You can also drop text snippets (also multi-line) here. You can change the order of the entries within the browser by dragging and dropping. Configure the entries by double-clicking or pressing Enter / Tab, each entry contains the following four fields:
– Title (display in the menu)
– Text (file with path or the text to be inserted)
– Hotkey (optional)
– Action on selection (“Open”, “Display in Finder”, “Copy text”)
Group your entries with separator lines. As a treat, you can also create empty files, e. g. text files such as “Readme. txt” for notes. Export any number of different configurations, which can be imported again as required. They are saved in JSON files and can of course also be edited outside the app. This allows you to create different setups for different scenarios.
“Personal Menu” saves you a lot of time, lets you work more efficiently and will be used as a useful tool every day.
What’s New
Version 1.1
– More detailed description (as desired)
– Checkbox „Launch Personal Menu at login“
Ratings and Reviews
Kinda Good
I mainly wanted this to have semi-frequently used text and other stuff on hand.
I am a bit disappointed that you can’t even seem to paste text into the text fields. How did that not happen? But the Preferences window is not very well done in general. Maybe rev 2 will clean it up.
About 90 percent of what I wanted
I'm very used to Windows and have to jump between that and iOS for work. I do digital design work so I constantly need to jump between apps and folders in order to manage my files, and I find that process cumbersome in iOS.
I wanted a simple menu where I could store my favorite apps and folders, and Personal Menu does just that. Plus its a free add-on, so I can't complain overall. It's unintrusive and simple to use, but there are a couple small issues that kept me from giving it five stars. Those issues are:
1. Adding apps and folders could be a little more intuitive. I figured it out after a few minutes but they have too many options in the preferences menu (which is where you go to update things), when all you need to do is just drag and drop icons and folders into the list. I might suggest removing all these buttons from the main preferences menu or placing them all in an advanced options menus.
2. The app did not launch when I rebooted. Not a dealbreaker but since I selected an option that implied it would launch at startup, I recommend the devs work out that bug.
Not what I needed
I was used to using a long gone menu app in which I could pull down the menu and it would list frequently used files, I could click on one and the file would open instantly. Not so with Personal Menu - it opens the folder that the file is located in, but does not instantly open the file. So...disappointing.
App Privacy
The developer, Ivo Wessel, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Seller
- Ivo Wessel
- Size
- 115.6 KB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.11 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018 Ivo Wessel
- Price
- Free