A clipboard, color picker, and text expander in Glaido

Look at your menu bar for a second.

There is a color picker, from the afternoon you needed a hex. A clipboard manager, because the thing you copied disappeared. A text expander, for the email signature. Something to keep the screen awake on a long call. Something else for when the fan will not quiet down.

Each download made sense on its own. Together they are a second set of apps to update, each with its own shortcut.

Those jobs are in Glaido now. We call them extensions. One job each, already in the app, on every plan, on Mac, Windows, and Linux. You turn on the ones you actually want, and you can ignore the rest.

The afternoon you need a hex

You are looking at a screenshot. You need that blue, in the format your file already uses.

Color Picker takes the pixel you click and copies it as hex, RGB, HSL, or OKLCH. Set a shortcut once, then click the pixel. Or hold your commands hotkey and say "pick a color as RGB".

It remembers the last twelve colors. Next time you can ask "convert #2563EB to HSL" and skip the picker entirely.

It waits until you turn it on, so it is not sitting on a shortcut you never chose. On a Mac it uses the sampler the system already has.

The link from an hour ago

You copied it. Then you copied six other things, and now it is gone.

Clipboard history kept them. Text, links, images, files, and colors, on your computer. It is on from the start. Open it in Spotlight, type a word you remember, and paste the item back into the app you were in.

The newest 40 are there, grouped by day. There is no shortcut until you set one. Spotlight is enough until you want one.

The signature you still type by hand

You already keep snippets in Glaido. You can say them while you dictate. Text Snippet Expansion lets you type them, too.

Type the trigger, then the marker key you chose. sig, then that key, and the signature lands where you were typing.

Nothing happens until you pick the key. A trigger also has to be a whole word, so sig will not fire in the middle of signature.

Leave it off if you would rather it not read what you type. It stays off until you turn it on.

The long call, and the loud fan

Keep Awake is the one you forget, until a call runs long and the screen goes black. Ask it to hold sleep off for two hours, until 6pm, or on weekdays from 9 to 6. You can also pick a duration in Spotlight.

Choosing Sleep still works. Turning the extension on does not start a session by itself. You ask, then it holds.

Processes is for the fan. It shows what is running, and how much CPU or memory each one is using. If you end one, or restart it, Glaido asks you first. Nothing quits on a guess.

Where you turn one on

Open Extensions in the sidebar and pick one. Setup tells you what it can see, asks for a system permission only when your system wants one, and lets you set a shortcut.

Or start from the page for the tool you want. Each page can open that setup in the app.

You can press the shortcut, open Spotlight when the tool is a list, or hold your commands hotkey and ask out loud. Same three doors for all of them.