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Purchase an upgrade to version 3
for Intel & Apple Silicon Macs running Mac OS X 10.14 or later
for Intel & Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 10.11 or later, Big Sur compatible.
for Intel Macs running macOS 10.10 to 10.14.
Vitamin-R 4 focuses on productivity and quality of life improvements.
The biggest new feature is the Command Window that you can invoke with the global Control-R keyboard shortcut both with Vitamin-R and any other application. The command window displays all currently available actions, state-specific & global settings, navigation options, etc.
Just can navigate through the options using the arrow keys, or filter them by name. In this manner, nearly all application features can be reached with just a few keystrokes without you ever needing to take your hands off the keyboard.
Version 3 introduced the ability to customize each Vitamin-R screen by showing or hiding different user interface elements & choosing alternative controls (e.g. switching between the normal & the pomodoro-specific break duration controls. Unfortunately, this v3 interface also takes up more screen real estate.
Version 4 brings back the option of a very compact & minimalist user interface that is more similar to that of earlier versions.
If you choose the "Prefer a Very Compact Interface" option in the Pre-defined profiles to customize your setup, you will automatically get half-height objective fields & switch off all optional interface elements, etc.
You will also activate the new window compactness option that always maintains the smallest window size that fits all the user interface elments. Together all those changes provide an ultra-compact minimal interface. You choose which optional elements are worth the screen real-estate.
Vitamin-R advocates working in short, focused bursts of around 20 minutes. It has always allowed some flexibility in this regard, but it has been awkward working with time slice durations of more than 40 minutes in previous versions.
Version 4 now allows you to switch between 45, 60, 90 and 120 minute durations controls and puts you in charge.
Version 4 (finally) delivers in-application log editing, deletion, and manual log entry creation.
The new version uses a combination between color coding and state icons to make it easier to see at a glance whether a time slice or a timed break is running, or whether you are on a preparation or ratings screen.
The entire user interface has been refreshed to take full advantage of the dark mode controls first introduced in macOS 11.14 Mojave and to integrate better with then new Big Sur & Monterey look and feel.
Version 3 running on recent versions of macOS required giving permission for "Keyboard Monitoring" because of the way that global keyboard shortcut were implemented. In version 4, we wrote our own keyboard shortcut framework that can run without those permissions and offers improved convenience and security.
We have also reviewed all the iconography of the application to bring it more into line with the new Apple Symbols icons.
