Menu bar & popover

NowDoing lives entirely in the macOS menu bar — no Dock icon, no Finder entry, no full-screen window breaking your flow.

The status icon

The menu bar icon shows a small colored dot — the color of the currently running activity. At a glance, you see what you’re tracked into without clicking.

Hover: tooltip with the current activity, elapsed time, and today’s total.

Left-click — open popover

A short click opens the popover. Inside:

• The active activity with a live counter.
• Quick-pick of your most-used activities.
• Three views of today (see Timeline & views).
• Buttons for “Create activity” and “Open timesheet”.

Click outside — the popover dismisses itself.

Right-click — context menu

A right-click (or Ctrl-click) on the icon opens a classic macOS context menu:

• Timesheet — opens the day + week window.
• Settings — all options.
• Pause — pauses tracking until you actively confirm again.
• Quit NowDoing.

Display mode

Under Settings → General → Menu bar display you choose what appears next to the icon while an activity is running. Four modes are available:

Mode	Shows
Icon only	Just the status icon.
Icon + text	Icon and activity name.
Icon + time	Icon and the running activity’s elapsed time.
Icon + text + time	Icon, activity name, and elapsed time.

Long activity names are truncated after 15 characters so the icon doesn’t eat unlimited menu-bar space. Time is shown as H:MM.

On a crowded menu bar — notch MacBooks with lots of menu-bar apps — Icon only stays the most compact. On larger displays, the combined modes give you more context without opening the popover.

The automatic prompt

When your tracking interval elapses, the popover opens automatically and takes focus. You don’t need to reach for the mouse — type to filter, navigate with arrow keys, confirm with Enter.

Confirming the same activity again keeps the live counter running — the previous block is extended instead of ending and starting a new one.