Write Text into Menubar (BitBar + Alfred)

Do you deal with tens of different tasks in a hour and end up with forgetting what you do 10 seconds ago? No prob!

You can write a text string to remember which will stick into your menubar - so that you can remember what you were going to do. Just install BitBar + Alfred Powerpack and start to use.

Installation

• Make sure that you have a BitBar extension.
• You BitBar plugin folder have to be installed ~/Documents/Bitbar-Plugins/
• Drag and drop your BitBar plugin into ~/Documents/Bitbar-Plugins/write-into-menubar-bitbar-plugin.1s.sh
• You need to run this Terminal Command to add chmod into your Bitbar Plugin

chmod +x ~/Documents/Bitbar-Plugins/write-into-menubar-bitbar-plugin.1s.sh

Customization

You can also config this plugin according to you needs - just change variables in BitBar plugin:

• You can change text color by changing: quote_color="black"
• You can set length of string by changing: max_chars="30"

Dependencies

You need to have BitBar (completely free) and Alfred Powerpack (paid one) to use this plugin.

Take a look to download then:

• Alfred 3 to run .AlfredWorkflow
• BitBar to show final result of .sh plugin

This plugin is made by Yiğit Konur for my daily routine at Zeo. If you need to get a support - please open an issue.

Special thanks for Jan Groß to inspire me by his "Daily Quote" plugin to create my own.