@pavanpodila Loving the QuickLens 2.0 Beta... Even though the new app icon resonates with the trendy flat design ... I still love the previous logo ... would you consider bringing it back?

• Lens and its palettes
• Frame and its presets
• Guides and per monitor settings

On macOS Monterey 12.5.1 setting a value for lenght or angle do not work correctly. It's only possible to set a one digit number, all other values are ignored.
Experienced on trial version 2.8.644.

Having a grab / rotation control to adjust the angle of the ruler will be much more intuitive. Right now, the user has to guess and double click the orange pill section where the values are defined and then adjust the angle values there. This is an enhancement for sure.

...and also highlight as a moving line on the Ruler

This is a blanket issue of first impressions and suggestions.

First off, thank you for this wonderful tool. It has become my "go-to" tool when developing front-ends.

Here are some observations/questions/suggestions:

Welcome tour and shortcut viewer are fighting for attention

• I am not sure where to go when I need help on a function. Welcome tour has help imbedded in it, but it is not easily navigable. Shortcut viewer is also helpful, but it is very terse. What is really needed is a single in-app help that is easily accessible and navigable. Welcome tour can remain, but its function would be to give a tour of the functions and not how to use them.

• Welcome tour and shortcut viewer are under different menu items. I always look for the Shortcut viewer under the Help menu, but it is under the Window menu.

• Welcome tour should have ability to jump to any topic by clicking the appropriate icon on the main page.

• The videos on the web site are too short to understand the behavior. They need a narrative. I really love how the Concepts app does it, with short videos by topic.

Lens

• When using lens, I can never remember how to lock a color and copy it to the clipboard. This is the most important operation and should be very obvious in help and/or shortcut viewer. In shortcut viewer, the shortcuts are arranged as follows. Note that "Copying to Pasteboard" is buried at #4, although I think it is the most important function.

  • Color Management
  • Display Behavior
  • Copying to Pasteboard
  • Pixel Movement
  • ....

• The term "pasteboard" is confusing. Most users are familiar with the term "clipboard". Later I realized that pasteboard is the panel on the left of the Lens.

• "Add Color" shortcut (C) is sitting under Color Management, I couldn't have imagined that it would add a color to the pasteboard.

• "Command C" is for "Copy color to Pasteboard" but AFAIK it copies to the clipboard. This is confusing.

• It is not clear what I can use the pasteboard for. All I know is that it shows color values on hover. Perhaps it would be useful to copy the color value to the clipboard on a click.

• The cursor for the Lens tool is an arrow. It would be more precise to have a cross-hair instead.

App icon

The app icon is nice, but the 3 things jutting out of the circle are very distracting. It is good detail, but the icon is too jarring with everything else on the dock, most items being clean circles or rectangles.

Ruler

Ruler should lock at 0, 90, 180 & 270 degrees. It is too difficult to lock precisely at these angles when rotating.

Crosshair

• Shortcut for "Cycle between modes" is not very legible. I have to squint to see that it is a back-tick.
• The various modes should be listed in the help.
• For quite a while, I was not able to figure out how to change the mode. Finally found out that the focus has to be on the crosshair in the tool palette to change the mode.

Shows the shortcuts for various tools

Can improve the sensitivity

I don't seem to be able to cycle Crosshair modes; not 100% sure which key to use, but nothing I have tried works. Mac OS 12.5.1.

This could be the last button in the toolbar. The icon could be with a single square for non-retina mode and a square with 4 sub-squares for retina-mode.

The dimensions mode of Lens changes the pixel selection size at different zoom levels. Pixels once selected should always stay the same irrespective of the zoom level.

Most preferences today are saved on closing a tool or quitting the app. This means any changes you make while the tool is active, might get lost if something crashes (could happen ;-)). To ensure settings are persisted correctly and on time, it's better to save most of the preferences to UserDefaults, immediately on change.

@pavanpodila Please enable the shortcuts to be accessed on Touch Bar in the future releases.

By default Space key snaps to 90° angle. Introduce a new shortcut Ctrl Space that allows snapping at 30, 45, 90 angles

Would be excellent if you could hold down SHIFT while adjusting the ruler angle to snap to 0 / 45 / 90 / 135 etc.

Adjunct: ability to directly type in the angle would be nice too !

Guides created on a monitor are currently stored in the Guide tool itself. Provide a capability to load them from a JSON file as well. This is useful for teams that share the same guide configs.

Hi @pavanpodila

Just discovered your tool and will soon by buying it I think 😉 . You will be seeing some issues of mine in order to improve upon your product. This issue covers 3 design aspects:

Improve placement of controls

Currently controls are placed against or over the active tool..

An example of a tool where the controls are placed against the tool UI itself is the lens tool:

An example of a tool where the controls are placed over the tool UI itself is the ruler tool:

This results in suboptimal reading/using of the UI controls and less efficient management of your tools.

Please take an example of how gifox does this: https://github.com/gifox/tracker/issues

Improve upon the styling of the control UI

Again take an example of gifox's control UI, with:

• consistent text and icon styling (same size, color, font)
• macOS ui uses rounded corners, it softens your UI and makes it a bit more approachable

Improve UI feedback

If controls are not clear enough in what they do, at least give users the option to learn to use them. Do this with simple tooltips when a user hovers over a certain control for an extended period of time :)

I hope this helps! let me know your thoughts

Currently Lens only supports distinct zoom levels: 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, 32X, 64X. Make this continuous with smooth zooming from 1X - 64X. Also add support for scrollwheel, trackpad.

On macOS Monterey 12.5.1, when trying to adjust the length of QuickLens by dragging the handles and an angle other than 0° is set, the application freezes.

I was playing around with the ellipse mode on the Tape tool, and found that when the main leg is moved off a orthogonal direction, the other leg can still snap to 90 degrees via the shift key, but the reported angle is other than 90 degrees.

Also the Tape tool very often will turn on extra Terminal windows for no reason when starting or stopping, but it doesn't happen every time. Only the Tape tool does this, and the Terminal does not need to be started for new windows to appear.

When the user launches a tool from the "Tool" menu, it adds a checkmark to indicate the available tool. Traditionally, this indicates a toggle where the user can click on it again to close the tool which is not the case here. The user has to go to "Window" -> "Close window" to achieve this which is not intuitive.

Can we have the "Tool" menu options and the shortcut keys to behave like a toggle.

Hi,
I think seeing all the numbers can be very useful when you compare several indents or margins at once.

Will be published to YouTube and linked on quicklens.app/docs

Lens

• Contrast checker inside the Preview HTML
• Change the icon for mouse locking to a cursor
• Add camera icon to take a picture to the Lens Toolbar

• Add the core shortcuts available in the Menubar and also the ones with the Option key
• Add ability to search for a shortcut by action name

1. QuickLens is practically begging to be docked to the sides of my monitor with an auto-hide feature. And in typical fashion maybe you could come up with some creative ways of docking, such as attaching to windows or other objects.
2. Integration with https://cleanshot.com/, Native MacOS, and other screenshot managers for editing what Lens (or Monocle) sees or storing it according to the rules that can be configured in those apps.
3. A few of the smaller apps I have replaced that you may want to have a close look at to evolve ideas from: https://getpixelsnap.com/, https://goldieapp.com/
4. A robust color picker and palette tool a la https://sipapp.io/
5. And you guessed it, Cloud Sync. Preferably by supporting shared directories so that I might use Nextcloud!

• Keyboard control over creation, placement of guides
• Snapping guides to on-screen elements
• Always show measurements with keyboard toggle

• Lens
• Ruler
• Frame
• Guide
• Monocle
• Crosshair
• General

It used to be a small box.
I first noticed this just after I updated the OS.

This one is a bit hard to explain, but maybe the screenshots will help.

When a Frame is onscreen, and you wish to resize it by dragging an edge, you have to first enter the frame with the mouse cursor and then slowly move outward towards the edge. If you instead approach the edge from outside the frame, the resize cursor never appears and the drag is not possible. Is this by design, or a bug?

ver: 2.0.463

There will be some additions and meaningful deletions.

• Resizing from both sides with symmetric sizing using Option key
• Rotation
• Units (px, in, cm, mm, custom)
• Calipers

These fields can be directly editable for easier change of properties.

This means the app becomes non-active and cannot receive focus directly, but has the advantages of not taking focus away from other apps.