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As noted here: Development will be slowing down · jordanbaird/Ice · Discussion #424 · GitHub
Key quote:
“As such, I have accepted a full time position with a company, and will be developing their macOS app. While I will try to continue to provide support and updates for Ice, I want to make it clear that most of my time in the forseeable future will be dedicated to my job.”
I will say that Copilot has a menu bar feature that if it was just the menu bar app would be pretty stellar and not a button to open the whole app.
Sindre Sorhus just announced an app so groundbreaking that our menu bars will never be the same:
Great, now even my computer is side-eyeing my productivity levels.
This feels more like an un-productivity app 
Sounds like the developer is setting expectations that there will not be a lot happening with Ice. Maybe not fully abandoned, but pretty darn close. (Not that I can blame them.)
Personally, I’m fine with Bartender, after initially being very skeptical of the whole situation, but I understand if others feel differently.
I was surprised neither David nor Stephen has DEVONthink in their menu bar. At least I did not hear them mentioning it and I didn’t see it in the show notes. There are a lot of DEVONthink users on this forum and I find myself using the quick capture in the menu bar quite frequently. Perhaps others use a keyboard shortcut and not the menu bar.
DEVONthink’s Sorter also runs as a docked tab on the side of your screen, a good option for crowded menubars. 
I’ve got almost 200 GB of stuff in DEVONthink, haha. I usually add things from the web, or will drag PDFs in from Finder.
Great episode! Came by to mention Reminders MenuBar, but see some folks beat me to it! Other frequently used ones for me are Hand Mirror (when I need to check my teeth before a meeting), and Downie (probably an easier way to use it, but for whatever reason I got used to using the menubar app).
PS, if the team does end up revisiting clipboard managers, I hope you’ll cover PastePal this time around! Great feature set, works on Mac/iOS/iPad, with a one-time purchase model. They do offer a menubar app, too, though I use it solely via the keyboard.
I agree, its a useful app. But I also bought Supercharge a couple of days ago, after listening to the show, and discovered it can also eject all drives. So I’ll probably end up uninstalling Jettison.
I have Freedom on my menu bar.
I like Hand Mirror, too. I wish more people would use it before Zoom meetings!
Reminders MenuBar is great!
Another option if you’re using a Raycast user: The Reminders extension has a menubar option you can enable as well.
IMO either one is a must-have if you’re using Apple Reminders.
Is the anpp any faster than simply right clicking on the Reminders icon to create a new reminder? My question is genuine, I am not being snarky. 
Are you referring to the Dock icon? If so, I’m curious why I don’t have the option (Sequoia 15.3.2):
My apologies, I was thinking of the Reminders icon on the iPad doc, which gives this:
Mac does not have that option, which means, I may need to get that utility for my Mac.
It makes total sense, I was kicking myself that I’d never thought to look in the menu for Reminders, only to be sad it’s not in there.
Great episode! I’m recently cleaned up my menubar after nuking and paving my menubar
Initially, I tried reinstalling Bartender 4, but on first launch it insisted that I upgrade to 5 or quit the app. So even though Bartender was working on Sequioa before the wipe, I could no longer use the software that I paid for.
I switched to ICE which works fine. I don’t really care if it gets updates or not, as long as it works!
My most used menu bar apps are
There are more apps but I find use them as much .
Love little deep dive episodes like this.
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Thank you for the Jettison recommendation. This was exactly what I was looking for when I recently switched to the “laptop as desktop” lifestyle. This allows me to just unplug my MBP when it’s asleep knowing I don’t have to eject any drives. I do notice on occasion it doesn’t automatically mount my TM backup drive, but I think that is because it asks for my PW (drive is encrypted).
I got Jettison as well, but I’m a little unclear…when will my computer back up? Only when I’m actively using it?
Last night CCC seemed to run the clone but TM failed. So do I need to run a script mounting the drives in middle of the night?
