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Thanks for bitbar @Shikkic, this will really help me to keep up my daily OSS contributions. Your plugin is also the reason why I downloaded bitbar, as I knew about it but never had the need to bloat up my menu bar even more. But this gave me all the reason I needed! :D

Thank you! Glad to hear it! I'm trying to maintain more OSS work myself. I love bitbar and totally encourage everybody to play with it and make their own plugin.

Bitbar is really great, I made a simple plugin for Gitlab in a very short time : https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins/blob/master/Dev/Gi...

I also made a menu at my company to improve our workflow : http://imgur.com/EpVb300

Thank you bitbar !

Thanks for making a GitLab version! Consider adding it to https://about.gitlab.com/applications/

That's a hugely wide menu bar app. Chews up nearly a quarter of the menu bar on my MBP.

Yeah I wasn't sure if removing or abbreviating the names would be confusing. I went with being a bit more explicit on the labels.

Maybe you could go with different layouts that you can set via the env file? Like Compact mode (for people like me that have a 13" laptop) and a normal mode. Or perhaps your config can go more complex than that. But I think if you download this plugin, you will also know what those numbers mean, I would think. I'm a UX noob though.

I loved the idea of this Bar Widget, but I had the same issues are you @FireBeyond.

Luckily you can easily hack the plugin as there's just 1 small file you have to edit (gh.5m.js)

The way you calculate your percentage is also super weird @Shikkic. It's all about daily contributes, but yet you calculate your percentage via the total contributes? I mean common, that will just give a fucking huge numbers. Also total contributes are not a stat I care about. Either way love the idea and the execution is quite cool :) Using it right now (albeit a tiny bit modified version)

here is a screenshot of my modified version (much smaller width, and some stats that I don't care about removed): http://www.imgpaste.net/image/AQBp

Yeah I need to make a few tweeks but thanks for the feeback! I love what you did to it, it looks great!

There's a similar one by Tadeu Zagallo of Facebook. Pretty nifty! http://tadeuzagallo.com/GithubPulse/

That is super nifty, love the design!

We all have private repos we tend to work on and it's really easy to neglect your OSS work. So, I created Gitbar to make daily public contributions a habit. Gitbar is a OSX Menu Bar utility that shows your daily Github stats, streaks, and contributions. You can even set goals.

Check it out on github (https://github.com/Shikkic/gitbar)

This is a completely different approach compared to other GitHub indicators and I have to say that I like the idea!

Does anyone know of a similar Linux-compatible tool?

Thanks, I agree I like the approach of the menu bar since I see it the most. I'm not sure about Linux compatible tools though.

I'm currently using this tool to keep up with my daily contributions. Love it!

Screenshot?

Slightly different idea, but I'd use a similar thing to this that shows how many (new?) open pull requests I have.

Oh yeah I love that! Good to know, I was thinking of expanding the different fields a bit more. People have also mentioned wanting to know if they got any new stars on their repos.

Have you tried Trailer? I've used it for over a year and it's been hugely helpful. https://ptsochantaris.github.io/trailer/

Thats so neat

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