Menu Bar app
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Zayyan Sahar
The menubar is life changing for me, so thank you! Would it be possible to have the timer/"complete task" button in the menu bar be more like the pre-existing focus bar in that it reflects subtasks (not just parent tasks)— both the time spent and have option to complete the subtask instead of the entire task?
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
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The OS X Menu Bar is now available.
- Start and stop your timers from your menu bar.
- Use the Menu bar timer instead of the focus bar to free up screen real estate.
- Get one click "Join meeting" links
- Quick access to today's task list
Kelvin Mah
Ashutosh Priyadarshy thank you! Quick ask:
Could we have the name of the Focus item on the bar too? I notice that when you start a focus task, it just shows you the time and not the name of the task. Heres what I mean https://share.zight.com/qGuWz2y6 (however, I think the Sunsama logo should be on the right of the task name)
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
Kelvin Mah I can look into making that a setting. However, the positioning to the left won't be possible.
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
The Mac OS X Menu Bar is live in the Desktop App!
Please make sure to upgrade to at least v3.2.8, Sunsama should auto-update but if you run into trouble get the latest version from: https://download.sunsama.com
I think I've addressed a good chunk of the specific requests in this thread and in the community Slack but if I missed anything, you find any bugs, or have new ideas now that you are
actually
using it, please let me know.William Sells
Ashutosh Priyadarshy bug report: the timer periodically stops counting up. may or may not be due to keeping sunsama in a different workspace. i'll move sunsama to this workspace and see if it keeps happening.
love this release!
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
William Sells I pushed a possible fix for this but I cannot repro it yet (but I have seen it). If you figure out a way to reliably make it happen please do let me know. Definitely monitoring this!
Melissa Breau
Another vote for a pomodoro solution that gets included in the menu bar. It would also be awesome to have a setting to choose if you wanted to keep the app "open" in the dock vs just in the top menu bar. Attached is the screenshot of the timer I'm using now. Having this built into Sunsama would be AWESOME.
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
Add focus timer to menu bar
Vince Ashwill
Having the option on MacOS to move focus bar to menu bar would be great.
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
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I've started working on this and am planning an internal release tomorrow. I should have something out for customers at least as a beta feature by next week.
If you've got any specific needs for this feature now is a great time to speak up!
Skyler Reeves
Ashutosh Priyadarshy - What a great surprise to see this morning! 🙏
The screenshot looks promising and I'll be glad to have it. In an ideal world I would just use this menu bar timer and would rarely ever need the current one again.
Some functionality that comes to mind in this respect would be:
Important
- The ability to start and stop the timer using the global keyboard shortcut we've set or customized in our settings.
- The ability for the time sound to have the timer play one of the four sounds when the timer reaches a certain point. I bring this up because the current documentation for the timer notes that, "timer sounds only play when the focus bar is showing." With the addition of the menu bar, the sound should still play even when the focus bar is not showing.
- The ability to toggle between timer mode and pomodoro mode would be useful to have in the menu dropdown.
Nice to Haves
- Related to the time sound mentioned above, the ability for the menu bar to indicate when actual time exceeds planned time. e.g. The text could turn red or the background of the menu bar item could turn red with white text or some other visual indicator. The sound is great but sometimes I just don't hear it so some sort of visual indicator that could help snap me out of what I'm doing would be helpful.
- The ability to show the menu options with a keyboard shortcut.
Phil R
Ashutosh Priyadarshy Skyler brings up good points. And I like where you are headed with this as well. If you've not seen it, Akiflow's menu bar does some things particularly well, but they do lack a focus timer.
Martijn Verwoert
Ashutosh Priyadarshy at the moment i have the feature enabled in the sunsama application, but it is not showing for me. Is the feature not enabled yet, or am i doing something wrong here?
The feature looks amazing, and i would love to try it!
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
Martijn Verwoert That's an oopsie by me shipping the setting for it without the feature. Will fix today!
Martijn Verwoert
Ashutosh Priyadarshy that is great news! any idea when this will be live then? can't wait to try it out
and do i need to reinstall the app, or is that not needed in this case?
Thank you for actively developing this app! it helps me a lot
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
Martijn Verwoert My hope is later today! Worst case tomorrow.
Jenny Vuong
Yes agree!
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
Pomodoro Timer in macOS Menu Bar
I’d love to request an enhancement to the Pomodoro timer experience in Sunsama.
Specifically, it would be incredibly useful to have the Pomodoro timer displayed in the macOS menu bar (system tray), rather than only as a floating, always-on-top window. Having the timer persistently visible in the menu bar would make it much easier to stay aware of time remaining without disrupting focus or screen real estate.
There’s an app called Be Focused Pro (https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/be-focused-pro-pomodoro-timer/id961632517) that implements this very well: the timer lives in the menu bar, updates in real time, and is always visible regardless of which app or workspace I’m in—without requiring a floating window. This makes it feel lightweight, non-intrusive, and perfectly integrated into the Mac workflow.
If Sunsama’s Pomodoro timer could optionally live in the menu bar (with basic controls on click, and perhaps syncing with the active focus session), it would significantly improve usability for those of us who rely on timeboxing throughout the day.
Even as an optional setting (menu bar timer vs. floating window), this would be a phenomenal addition.
Thanks for considering—and really appreciate the thoughtful product design overall.
Ashley Creighton
oof, yes, pleeeease, focus timer window is a nuisance but would be so useful in the Mac menu bar 🙏
Skyler Reeves
Ashley Creighton - Agreed. I despise the focus timer being its own element instead of a menu bar item.
They'd need to develop a native layer to gain access to the menu bar.
Maker Design
I just asked AI if Sunsama had this feature and came to this request. +1 for this request, I love literally everything about Sunsame, except for the Focus Timer. If it lived in the menu bar it would be the perfect productivity app.
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