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The Strip
WorkStrip consists of a number of independent items arranged as a strip
on the edge of the screen. The WorkStrip item is always available. The
strip can be configured to show all or a subset of the running applications,
the Windows item, and a variable number of applications, files, folders
and Workspaces. Each item on the strip has an icon and a tab from which
the item’s menu or its associated panel window is opened. Clicking on
an item’s icon will either activate or open it.
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Setup
Assistant
To help with your transition and initial setup, after launching WorkStrip
for the first time the Setup Assistant will appear. This will explain
some of the main features of WorkStrip and will outline some of the different
ways that it can be configured. All the settings in the Setup Assistant
can be also be set from the “WorkStrip Preferences” window. Clicking on
the Finish button in the last panel of the “Setup Assistant” will make
it disappear.
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Workspaces
WorkStrip organizes files into Workspaces to represent a project,
a client, or different aspects of your work, regardless of where
they exist on the computer.
Initially, WorkStrip creates one Workspace, “My Workspace”,
but you can create as many Workspaces as you need.
A Workspace keeps all project-related items together, regardless
of where they exist on the computer. No matter how files and
folders are added to a Workspace, WorkStrip does not copy or
move the original items; it only keeps references to them. If
an item that exists in a Workspace is deleted from the computer,
it will no longer show up in the Workspace.
Only one Workspace can be active at a time. The active Workspace
will automatically appear on the strip and will keep track of:
• Documents that have been opened
• Web sites that have been visited
(Safari and Internet Explorer only)
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Manage
& Customise
To provide visual clues as to which Workspace is active, it
is possible to assign a different Desktop Picture and icon to
each Workspace. WorkStrip allows multiple Workspaces to be added
to the strip. Even though only one Workspace can be active at
a time, adding other Workspaces simplifies switching between
Workspaces and allows access to their contents, through both
its menu as well as its panel window. You can also bookmark
files in an inactive Workspace by dragging items into its panel
window.
To remove an item from a Workspace, select the item in the panel
window and press Delete. (This will not delete the original
item on disk).
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Previews
WorkStrip will automatically provide instant previews for many
common file types; these can be viewed from both WorkStrip menus
and from the panel windows.
While using any of WorkStrip’s menus, any files encountered
will have an associated preview. Additionally, movies and audio
files (e.g. mp3) can be played in menus by moving the mouse
over the preview area. At the base of all previews windows it
will show file size and image measurements
Panel windows with lists have a preview area that shows previews
of selected items in the list. Also, when the icon size of the
list is anything but the smallest, WorkStrip will show previews
of graphic files instead of their icons.
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Bookmarks
In addition to recent items in a Workspace, specific documents,
folders and web sites can be manually added. This is known as
Bookmarking. A Bookmarked item will remain as such until it
is physically removed from the Workspace, or is deleted from
the machine.
You can Bookmark the same item in multiple applications, and
multiple Workspaces.
Also, files and folders can be Bookmarked by dragging them from
the Finder into the Panel window’s list.
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Advanced Tracking
Advanced tracking of applications, documents and websites to
simplify organisation.
Each Workspace can keep track of up to 100 documents and 50
web sites. Once exceeded, the newer items will replace the oldest
ones.
Date Hierarchy in recent items menu.
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Applications
When you launch an application, it will automatically appear
on the strip. Clicking on an application’s icon will bring that
application and all of its windows to the front.
From an application item’s menu you can:
• Open Bookmarked and recently accessed items that are associated
with the application in the active Workspace
• Switch to any of its open windows, including minimized ones
• Unminimize all of its minimized windows
• Choose to keep the application on the strip when it is not running.
• Navigate the application’s path on disk
• Hide the application
• Hide all other applications
• Quit the application if it is running, or launch it if it is not.
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Web Browser Support
When an application on the strip is a recognized Web browser
(e.g. Safari, Internet Explorer, OmniWeb etc), WorkStrip will
allow the application to Bookmark local HTML files, as well
as Internet addresses (URLs). To bookmark an Internet address,
drag a URL from a Web browser into the application item’s Panel
window.
The Panel window will also show the most recent web sites visited
in the active Workspace.
The Bookmarked and recent web sites are not stored on a per-web
browser basis. All web browsers will share the same set of items.
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Window Access
This item gives access to all open windows on your computer,
including minimized windows.
Selecting a window will bring it to the front. Selecting an
application will bring all of that application’s windows to
the front.
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Keyboard Navigation
The following panel windows can be opened using pre-defined
keyboard shortcuts:
The active Workspace
Window item
The front-most application
Also, the visual state of WorkStrip can be toggled using the
keyboard.
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Message Count
WorkStrip will show unread message count on the Mail icon.
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WorkStrip
Trash
WorkStrip also comes with it’s own Trash, can be positioned
anywhere on the screen, including on the menu bar.
It is highly configurable and provides many useful festures,
including:
Showing the number of items in the trash and the space used.
Using custom icons for the empty and full states.
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