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Flic for Mac — Wireless shortcut buttons for Mac
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Thanks for the hunt @percival!
Flic is an extra button. You remember those old “favorite buttons” gadgets used to have? It’s like that, but way more advanced. And wireless, now for your Mac.
Flic Smart Buttons have been around a since our IndieGoGo launch in 2014 - small Bluetooth Low Energy buttons that save you time. Today we have over a hundred different ways to use Flic in our apps for smartphones.
We launched the Mac App today with some of the most useful actions for Flic at home and in your office, e.g. Slack, Timely time management, music control, Keynote presentation clicker and much more. We will keep adding functionality if you like it, including ways to build your own shortcuts.
The Flic Mac App works just like our smartphone apps - add Flics if you have any, or create shortcuts to be executed from the notification center (widgets).
The app is all free. If you want to buy Flic buttons, use “IMAHUNTER” discount code for 20% off 😃
Excited to show this to the community and see what you guys have to say about it! What do you want a shortcut button for?
Hey Flic team! This update is awesome- can't wait to config it for time tracking 🤔 what's your favorite use for the Mac app so far?
Thanks @kaitlynwitman - We have lots of buttons in the office, for beta testing, productivity, and fun. I think my favorite is the Spotify/Sonos kill switch I have for when @antomeie plays bad music. I use that a lot :)
@swinterroth Not yet, but that is a feature that I hope we will be able to add in the near future.
@antomeie I use a screencasting program and I would love to have a simple button to start, stop and pause the recording. Since the program uses shortcut commands, it would be something I figured could be programmed. I have an example of something similar if you're interested in more info.
@antomeie @swinterroth +1 for this. Would expand the mac functionality quite a bit if this were there
@edholloway @antomeie @swinterroth you can actually use it to execute almost anything on your Mac if you use Keyboard Maestro. KM has a built-in webserver that you can call with the Flic webrequest hooks. Works great!
@mdbraber @edholloway @antomeie @swinterroth Keyboard Maestro is a friggin' treasure trove. Making functionality like what you listed above (and, frankly, a lot of KM's abilities) much more user-friendly would be killer.
I participated in your crowd fund and was super happy when I received those four buttons. I was similarly sad when I lost the first one outside and couldn't find 😟 I used several ble trackers and it was showing but I didn't see it... Now it's still out in the cold. So yeah very nice product and does what it promises. The only issue is - which cannot be resolved by the makers - thelack of an IoT ecosystem. Be it hubs or smarter wifi routers etc. So relying on my phone is often a bit fickle.
@mckean Thanks for the comment and the kind words! I feel sorry for your cold Flic too, but good thing that you have three left then :) With the Mac app, you don't have to rely on your phone anymore. Perhaps you want to try to attach some of them to your desk?
The app and website need a bit of work:
1. If you are using any magic once I click download app, please disable it. It's not directing me to the App Store. FYI, I have AdBlocker installed.
2. The add button (in instructions) to add Flics is misaligned for iPhone 7 Plus.
3. When adding virtual flic please use user friendly text. Its 'Alarm Configuration' and not alarmConfiguration.
There's probably more but this was in the first 5 minutes
@parwinder Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, the website needs work for sure. Hoped we could release our new site for this release, it will be up in a couple of days. Are you referring to the Mac app or the iOS app, though? Will get your comments fixed for the next iOS release ;)
Cool! I love how flic for iOS helps me start/stop timers in Timely. Love the fact that you've added "virtual" buttons as well!
@orvik Thanks, we love Timely too ;) We use Flics for time tracking with Timely in our office and spent way too many hours on the Mac app :D
Love the product. Would it be possible to set up a Flic button so that it opens up the programs I need for work in the morning?
Example: get out of bed, click my Flic, and go make some coffee. When I come back my machine has opened Slack and Chrome is up with a few tabs ready to roll!
Yeah! Good job! Is it possible – and if yes, then how? – to configure a Flic button to start a web stream (let's say, a live radio channel) on the Mac and cast it to a Chromecast?
@siavashvj Hi! I haven't tried live radio streams but you can do chromecast in the Mac app. Try downloading it and use it with widgets to see if your stream is possible. It's all free to use, now and forever :)
Feature requests: 1) Widgets sync across desktop and mobile 2) Widget store of sorts (IFTTT like) to easily get started with an Action packed Widget.
Also, I don't see all the Actions in Mac app that I see on the mobile app. Uber?
@binoyxj Thanks, Widget sync is a great idea! 2) If the Mac app becomes popular, we will build support for plugins so you can easily add what you want. 3) No, everything is not in there yet, we will keep adding functionality as we go :)
@joacimwe Cool. This virtual button/ widget, when working perfectly is a great marketing tool in itself :)
@joacimwe Few more requests. The widgets in the notification area are not working when the app is closed- make it work standalone. Also, when the 4th widget/ second row is introduced, consider reducing the size of the buttons dynamically. More pleasing IMO.
@binoyxj Good feedback, thanks! The widgets go away by design if you quit the app, not if you just close the window, right?
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