Capture to inbox shortcut goes global on desktop app

[Erica]

Note that while I was looking at this page, I pressed the shortcut. Nothing happened. Only when I actually clicked onto the Dynalist desktop app did I see the inbox entry.

Version of your desktop app? Is it newer than v1.0.40 as mentioned in the OP?

[Erica]

The way I would expect the inbox entry to work is like how Omnifocus does it. A floating box pops up, you type in there, hit enter, then go back to what you were doing. Here’s a vid of the way Omnifocus does it:

I understand the need, that would be a separate feature request though.

Sorry if I wasn’t being clear – this announcement is about the shortcut going global. Basically the shortcut used to only invocable when you’re in the app, and now the shorcut is invocable wherever you are. The floating thing by Omnifocus is a separate widget/window that we need to make, which is out of the scope of this update. You can go ahead and make a feature request if you’d like though.

I hope that’s understandable.

[Daryl_Mander]

I’m not sure what version it is… I’m on Mac OS and normally I’d expect to see “About [appname]” in the main menu dropdown but I don’t see it for Dynalist. Looked in settings and I couldn’t find it there either. How do I check?

I downloaded the app within the past week and I DL’ed it from your site so I assume I have the most up to date version.

It’s OK, I understand if the “omnifocus style” floaty box thingy is outside the scope of this update, but I am right in thinking that the Dynalist app is supposed to come to the front when I hit the shortcut from another app right?

P.S. I just retried it just now it seems to work now. I’ll let you know if the bug comes back, I’m normally a pretty big user of the “clip to inbox” functionality so I’ll try and use this regularly and let you know if there are further issues.

[Erica]

I’m not sure what version it is… I’m on Mac OS and normally I’d expect to see “About [appname]” in the main menu dropdown but I don’t see it for Dynalist. Looked in settings and I couldn’t find it there either. How do I check?

You can do that by choosing the “About” option in the main menu (menu icon at the top right corner).

I downloaded the app within the past week and I DL’ed it from your site so I assume I have the most up to date version.

Sorry that’s not the case for Dynalist for some technical reason. You’d need to restart the app at least once to get the latest version

[Erica]

P.S. I just retried it just now it seems to work now. I’ll let you know if the bug comes back, I’m normally a pretty big user of the “clip to inbox” functionality so I’ll try and use this regularly and let you know if there are further issues.

It could be because you’ve restarted the app since the last time the issue occurred, which probably means it won’t happen again

[Dean_Morrison]

The desktop app has to be running in order for the global shortcut to work, yes?

[Erica]

The desktop app has to be running in order for the global shortcut to work, yes?

Sorry for the late reply.

Yes, it needs to run, otherwise it can’t listen for the shortcut.

[daniel_paner]

My capture to inbox works, but it switches focus to Dynalist and doesn’t send me back to the app I was previously focused on. What I would have expected would be:

1. On Slack
2. Press CTRL+Shift+I
3. See the inbox capture appear on top of Slack
4. Dismiss inbox capture window
5. Continue using Slack

IRL #3 switches my focus over to Dynalist and forces me to reset my focus back to Slack.