Until Bartender works in Big Sur: Try “Hidden”

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One of the biggest things that I miss when trying out Big Sur is Bartender.

There’s a simpler app called Hidden which is available for free.

Version 1.5 works fine with Big Sur:

For some reason, version 1.6 stopped working in Big Sur, but 1.5 is still available at the link above.

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I’ve been using Dozer, which also works well. It’s easily installed via Homebrew.

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Thanks for this. :blush: I’ve also been using Dozer, but it’s definitely got some issues still in Big Sur. I hope Hidden is a bit more stable. :crossed_fingers:t2:

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Thanks @tjluoma, I’ll try it, while monitoring this link for the Bartender Big Sur beta

https://www.macbartender.com/blog/macOS-Big-Sur/

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I’ve tried Vanilla, Dozer and Hidden Bar and ultimately settled on Hidden Bar. Don’t remember my reasoning behind the decision but it’s indeed serving me quite well.

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Your link refers to a specific blog post, which probably won’t get any updates.

In fact, there’s already a newer post on the same subject:

https://www.macbartender.com/blog/macOS-Big-Sur-Update/

(I have the blog feed in Feedly)

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I wish the Mac Bartender blog had dates attached. I’d love to know if it was written today, or a month ago, or somewhere in-between.

(time passes)

Aha! If you go to https://www.macbartender.com/blog/ there are dates shown. The first was from July 7th, the second from August 18th. Definitely adding to my RSS feeds.

Update - where is the RSS feed?

@rob - can you post the feed URL? I can’t seem to find it, and neither can Feedbin.

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I added http://www.macbartender.com/blog/ to Feedly.

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Huh. I wonder how Feedly is doing that, because there’s no RSS/Atom feed there.

Curious.

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They probably create RSS feeds by spidering sites on behalf of subscribers. I used to manually use Page2rss (which appears to be down now).

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Sorry, seems like I misunderstood the Feedly website UI, so I exported all feeds to an OPML file. This is the feed’s URL listed in that file:

http://www.macbartender.com/blog/rss.xml

If I open that URL in Safari (on my iPad) it offers to open it in Reeder, so I think this URL is correct?

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Thanks. Interesting - it’s not in the page itself or discoverable with my browser’s RSS-finding extension.

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I bet they redesigned the website and forgot to put the RSS link in there.

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As I added it to my RSS feed yesterday Newsblur noted that 10 other users had previously subscribed, so it must have been (more) easily available at some point in the past.