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If you've ever used Grafana, Geckoboard, etc it feels similar to that but with additional desktop (clickable/interactive) functionality. You set up your widget
by corobo 10y ago
If you've ever used Grafana, Geckoboard, etc it feels similar to that but with additional desktop (clickable/interactive) functionality.
You set up your widgets for a project - buttons for "git commit", "gulp watch", "Open project in Sublime". Add in some browser windows for the project management - Trello, Harvest, Slack channel. It then serves as a main hub for the project you're working on. To me that sounded a little cumbersome but after seeing the cmd-shift-f global keyboard shortcut (Open/Switch to Freeter) I think I might try to use this on a couple of projects I have going.
Seems you can also set keyboard shortcuts for projects within the app too e.g. ctrl+f1 could be a dashboard for Website A development, ctrl+f2 could be Website B dev, etc.
Edit: Highly recommend taking a moment to read/skim through the guide. The feature that sold me on it was being able to use Dropbox or similar to sync projects between machines
- slang800 10y agoGrafana & Geckoboard are for displaying charts as a dashboard. Freeter looks more like a mini window manager in an app... Even though you could just open up your project-related applications in a workspace and lay them out on a grid with i3.
- corobo 10y agoI was saying the way you lay out the charts as a dashboard in Grafana is similar to how you lay out the windows/buttons in Freeter. Not that the apps are similar, just the interface.