@johnonolan Hey John, I literally got so tired of forgetting what I was doing 'between' things. Between email, Slack and Skype, and all the other distractions; I kept having a moment of "hmmm what was I doing again?", and so after a quick failed Google I decided to build something that was always visible, but unobtrusive... That's how Thought Train came about, to keep my 'train of thought'. (I'm a massive fan of Ghost btw)

@rrhoover When I saw Mac menubar, I thought "damn I should really put Thought Train up now!" I like their minimalism, I'm looking already at un-designing Thought Train to take up less room.

Getting the same error :( @marcperel Installed other apps, worked fine. Problem persists with Thought Train despite multiple attempts.

@jithinraj @caner right click on the app and click "open", then your Mac should prompt you to open the app. Otherwise DM me on Twitter and let's figure it out!

@marcperel Tried it and many other suggested ways online. Not happening. Is you DM open on Twitter?

@vicgrss Yeah I like that idea. I also imagine a contextual Right Click > Send to Thought Train would be cool on highlighted text so you can add it right away.

@ememess I considered this, but for the initial use I didn’t want to add complexity of APIs. It’s something I’ll consider though, because most thoughts arrive away from my machine too, usually on my bike 🚲 or in the car 🚗

@marcperel Makes sense. Tho simply being able to choose where the app reads/writes to would do it for DropBox...

@ememess I’ll see how that pans out in an update thanks mate.

@sedatkaplan_ Auto-startup is an important one that's coming soon thanks :)

@jamischarles Thanks James - My empty menubar is a picture :) - Previously it always did the carousal effect, so it had a max-width, but we removed that and made it static, lots of early users found it too distracting. - I want to take another stab at a simpler design with better fonts. What I do to combat limited space is just use emojis.

@yesnoornext It supports them if you copy & paste them in, I want to add an emoji button for quicker adding though.

@tommyjvedvik Cool thanks Tommy that's helpful, you're right I need to sort out a nice preview video 📹

@tommyjvedvik Tommy I've made a cute little gif now which shows how it works upfront, thanks for this suggestion mate.

@tnorthcutt I want to add a keyboard short-cut or a contextual menu in the right click for highlighted text to just say "send to Thought Train".

@marcperel Cool! A keyboard shortcut would be really great for lots of people, I think – way less of a "flow" interruption if you're coding, researching, etc. to quickly make a note. I try to do this if I get interrupted and have to walk away or switch tasks; otherwise I spend a ton of time resuming work when I come back.

@tnorthcutt I'll think of one that's available ie. not widely integrated (like some apps take over shift+cmd+4, OMG!)

@tschlander Cool thanks Tom, the design definitely needs some polish, especially on the animation front. Then obviously there's the case of improving the way the text itself behaves in the menu-bar. PS. You can un-highlight thoughts, when you have just one thought highlighted, scrolling stops. That's not plainly obvious in the UX 🙌

@procrasprinces Sarah, the latest version has a quick key :) CMD+ALT+T I've been using it for a few months and that works great.