Quick settings, Today and notices

Three things grow out of the Core, the capsule at the bottom of the screen, besides the Palette. Quick settings holds the switches you reach for every day: press Super+I or click the status marks at the capsule’s right end. Today is the calendar and what is coming up: click the time. Notices are how Takumi and your apps tell you things: the capsule widens for a moment and settles back.

Quick settings

At the top, Quick settings and how the computer is powered: “Charging · 80%”, “Full · plugged in”, or “62% · about 3 h 10 min left”. On the right, the lock and the power button.

The switches

Each tile shows its state in words under its name. A tile that is on is tinted, with its icon in the accent colour. Click a tile to switch it. Point at it and an arrow appears at its end: click the arrow, or right-click the tile, to open the Palette on that topic with every setting it has.

A switch that cannot work on this computer (no Bluetooth, no power modes) says “Not available” and greys out.

Sound and brightness

The Volume level shows the speaker or headphones in use under it. Drag it, click along it, turn the mouse wheel over it, or use the arrow keys. Its icon mutes and unmutes. Brightness shows only on a screen with its own backlight, such as a laptop’s. External monitors are slower to answer, so they keep their own keys and the Palette’s display rows (Displays).

While music or a video has something playing, a card under the levels shows its cover, the title, who made it and the app, with back, play or pause and next, and a thin line along its bottom for how far along it is.

Capture

Four buttons along the bottom. Each one closes Quick settings first, so the Core is not in the picture.

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The power button

The power button turns the switches into Stop for now: Sleep, Restart, Shut down and Log out, each with a line saying what it does. Sleep locks and sleeps at once, and everything stays open. The other three close your apps, so they ask for a second press (“Press again to shut down”). Open apps are asked to close first. Esc goes back to the switches.

Keys in Quick settings

Today

Click the time in the capsule. Today shows the day’s name and date, the week number, and the month with today in the accent colour. The month starts on the first day of the week for your language.

Page through months with the arrows on screen, ← →, Page Up Page Down, or the mouse wheel. Today or Home comes back to this month. Typing anything opens the Palette, and Esc closes it.

Around the month, Today adds what you asked it to keep:

• The weather, when you turned it on, beside the day’s name: “Lisbon 19° · light rain · 24° later”. A click opens the Palette on weather.
• Clocks for other cities, three at most, under the date: the city, its time, “+1” when it is already tomorrow there, and how far ahead or behind it is (“+9 h”, “−5 h”). A click opens the Palette on clock.
• Coming up: running timers counting down by the second, with a line that shortens as they run, then reminders with their time (“15:00”, “Tomorrow 09:00”, “Fri 18:00”). A click opens the Palette on them.
• Earlier: the last messages your apps sent, with the app and when. It makes way for the rest when space is short. “Nothing from your apps yet” when there are none.

Timers, reminders and the weather

All three are set in the Palette, in your own words:

Reminders understand “in 10 min”, “in an hour”, “at 3pm”, “at 15:00”, “tomorrow 9:00”, “tonight” and the days of the week. When one rings, the Core says it even during do not disturb (you asked for it), and a press within the minute sets it again ten minutes later. A timer also plays an alarm sound when the computer has one.

The weather comes from Open-Meteo, which needs no account. It is off until you turn it on, and then asked at most every 30 minutes, only while Today or the Palette is open. More in Language, time and Today.

Good to know. The clock in the capsule and on the lock screen always shows the 24-hour time for now. Today follows your choice of 12-hour or 24-hour clock.

Notices

Takumi’s own notices are short: the volume with a meter, a theme’s name, a screenshot taken, a command that ran. They show for under two seconds.

A message from an app widens the Core with the app’s icon, the message’s title and its first line, for five seconds, or eight when it has buttons. The pointer resting on a notice keeps it on screen, and nothing counts down while the Core is open, so a message never runs out unseen.

A link in the message’s first line shows in the accent colour; a click opens it in the browser and puts the notice away. Only web and email links open: a message never opens a file or runs anything.

Acting on a notice

On a Mac keyboard, Page Up and Page Down are Fn+↑ and Fn+↓. Messages waiting behind others come next, newest first. One that waited a minute is old news and goes.

Do not disturb

Turn it on with its tile in Quick settings, or type do not disturb in the Palette. While it is on, messages are counted instead of shown, and the capsule shows a struck-through bell with the number held. Urgent messages and your own reminders still show. Turning it off says how many came in and from which apps (“3 messages came in · From Slack and Mail · press to see them”), and a press lists them.

Earlier messages

Every message, shown or not, is kept. Today shows the last three, and the empty Palette shows today’s last three under Earlier today. Type earlier (or notifications, messages, missed) in the Palette for all of them, newest first, and add words to narrow them. Enter on one copies it. Clear earlier messages forgets them, and asks first.

When an app quits unexpectedly

When one of your apps crashes, the Core says so (“Files quit unexpectedly”) with See why and Copy details. See why shows a card in the Core: what quit and when, what happened in plain words (“It tried to use memory it does not have”), and where in its code it stopped. Copy details puts a full report on the clipboard, ready for a bug report or for someone helping you. Typing crash in the Palette finds Why an app quit at any time.

From the command line

takumi switch dnd                 # do not disturb on or off
takumi switch wifi                # Wi-Fi on or off
takumi switch bluetooth           # Bluetooth on or off
takumi switch nightlight          # the night light on or off
takumi power awake 60             # stay awake for 60 minutes; "stop" ends it
takumi power profile power-saver  # or balanced, performance
takumi audio volume 30            # set the volume; up, down, mute
takumi audio mic toggle           # mute or unmute the microphone
takumi display mirror toggle      # mirror the screen on a projector, or stop
takumi timer 10 tea               # a 10-minute timer called tea
takumi timer stop                 # stop every running timer
takumi remind in 10 min stretch   # a reminder
takumi remind list                # what is waiting to ring
takumi weather on                 # show the weather in Today
takumi clock add Tokyo            # a clock for Tokyo in Today
takumi clock format 12h           # the 12-hour clock in Today
takumi debug crash                # why the last app quit