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Sadly today marks the day where I will stop working on Bee and move onto other things. I’ve written and supported Bee for the last 8 years and I have come to the point where I have the desire to work on something new. Unfortunately this means I can no longer support Bee or continue maintaining it. The release published today will be the last published release. I have removed the remote…
The first major release of Bee 3 is out today — v3.1! This is a rundown of the more interesting parts of this release. Project Search There is now an additional mode of searching - project search. Just hit Command + Shift + F and you can search the current project you’re in, and nothing else. This is ideal for users with large numbers of projects. Switcher Dynamic Width The other major…
After more than a year in intensive development, and 2 months in public pre-release mode — I’m excited to announce the arrival of Bee 3 . Bee 3 is a complete redesign and in most cases, a complete rewrite of the UI. I removed all the rough edges and clunky interactions from the previous interface and added smooth transitions and crisp animations where it made sense. Bee is now more fun…
Bee v2.3 has just been released! If you are running OS X 10.11 El Capitan, the first thing you will notice is that Bee’s UI is now using the new San Francisco typeface throughout. Line heights, font sizes and other metrics were all reviewed to overhaul the interface and ensure the new typeface was integrated well. The other major change is that Bee now indicates unread status alongside the…
Bee v2.0 is out now! There’s a whole host of under-the-hood performance improvements, but the main thing you’ll notice is the refreshed UI for OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Bee is now faster and lighter. As well, there are exciting improvements and features still to come with the new v2 base which will be released in the coming months. And notably, v2.0 is a free upgrade for all existing users.…
Bee v1.9 is out now. The release notes for v1.9 are smaller than usual for a major release and whilst there are a couple of notable new features and fixes, the majority of changes have been happening under the hood. Bee is being prepped for Yosemite support and for the support of additional issue trackers. A large number of features have been added over the past several months on the journey to…
This latest release of Bee brings with it a much requested feature: timesheets! FogBugz and JIRA have sophisticated time tracking built-in. Bee takes advantage of this fact and introduces a fun, new and intuitive way of interacting with your logged time. If you’re using the Notes or GitHub plugins, you can still log your work in Bee. However your work will stay local to your system as those…
Bee is getting smarter with each update. In v1.7 Bee now remembers values you type or select in each field during item creation. This makes a huge difference when creating multiple items, or as a way to set up an ad hoc template for your new items. E.g. If you always create items with a particular assigned user, Bee will remember the assigned user and pre-populate that field for you each time. URL…
Bee v1.6 includes substantial improvements in stability, performance and usability. It also enhances the way lists which include sub-tasks or sub-cases are displayed. Hierarchies Your items sometimes appear in hierarchies (sub-tasks, nested cases). Prior to Bee v1.6, the entire hierarchy was always preserved showing you just the top level. This was confusing. Now, all items are displayed flat in…
CocoaPods (the open source dependancy manager for Objective-C) is having a Bug Bash to help clear out the issues in their backlog. The top contributors will have an opportunity to win licenses for some of the best software available on the Mac today: AppCode - The alternative Objective-C IDE. Bee - Mac issue tracker supporting GitHub Issues, FogBugz and JIRA. Dash - Instantly access developer…
Bee v1.5. This is the biggest release so far! Here’s a run-through of some of the new things that Bee does to make you more productive at work. Custom Notifications One of Bee’s most popular features are the notifications that are displayed whenever your teammates conduct activity on your issue tracker. Now you can customise exactly which notifications you see. Just open the…
Bee v1.4 just hit the App Store and is also available via the web site. The major feature in this release is something that has been frequently requested: file upload support! There’s a completely new UI for viewing file attachments and JIRA and FogBugz now support uploading and emailing files. File Attachments When an issue or case has file attachments, they’re displayed inline with…
Bee v1.3 is out now in both the web site and the App Store, and I just wanted to give a short rundown on some of the exciting new features that have emerged in this release. This is the biggest release in a while in terms of new features, with the major feature being inline username autocompletion which a lot of users have asked for. The current release cycle of Bee is 1-2 weeks which is evident…
When you launched Bee for the first time, you were presented with the New Project window. Selecting a Project type would have taken you to a screen where you could enter your account details. If you change your password on your server, you can update the credentials Bee uses by going to Preferences (Bee > Preferences) and then the Accounts tab. From there, you can double-click the relevant account…
About Bee is designed and built by Basil Shkara. I’ve been building Bee full-time (with some tiny breaks for contractual work) since 2010. I’m privileged to be able to continuously design and develop this piece of software which I imagined up many years ago. I didn’t want to contribute to the growing mass of issue trackers out there, but I wanted to improve upon the experience of…
The issue tracker you want to use Bee comes with a year of updates and is yours to use forever. A license includes 12 months of updates and support. Updates periodically include new features. After the 12 month period, Bee will continue to work and you can use it for as long as you like. You may renew your license at any time for a discount. Each license is valid for 1 machine. If you have…
Release Notes Bee is under constant and rapid development.
Security Bee communicates solely with your designated server. No intermediary servers are used. Bee smartly caches, polls and fetches deltas directly via your server’s API. Your Mac is the only computer connecting to your server. Credentials When you enter your authentication credentials in Bee, they are securely stored in your Mac’s Keychain locally. Each service that Bee supports has…
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Private Organizations Due to the way GitHub’s organization application policies work, if you are a member of a private organization or have access to private repos and you do not see your repos inside of Bee — it could be because your access policy blocks third-party access by default. To remedy this, go to this page and grant Bee access. You can read more here . Filtered Projects When…
If you visit the View menu, you’ll find 3 different levels of grouping and sorting options. Viewing your items is a personal and highly customizable experience and Bee faciliates this by allowing you to modify how the projects are presented. These options vary according to the service and type of project you are currently viewing. The naming of these options can also differ slightly…
When you’re viewing an item, only the fields which are populated are visible. This is because we spend more time reading issues than editing them. You can add a hidden field at any time by going to the Item Menu and adding the field directly from there: Always Visible/Hidden Fields You can also mark a field to always be displayed or hidden, regardless of whether it contains any content or…
Bee continuously syncs deltas in the background from your server. Each project fetches the latest changes every minute in the background. When you make Bee the active application, it also does a quick delta sync for the currently-viewed project. Every 2 hours, Bee will also fetch the supporting entities for your projects. (E.g. users, milestones, labels, versions, components, etc.) If you wish,…
Create sub-tasks To create a sub-task, select the issue you want to create the sub-task under. Then hit Shift-Return . Favourite Filters In JIRA, when you create a new search - you can save the search as a ‘Favourite Filter’. Then when you come back to Bee and add a new project (File > Import New Project), you are able to add that Favourite Filter directly as a project. This is a…
Adding JIRA Software Projects Bee supports JIRA Software 6.3 and above. If you are running an older version, you can still add your JIRA Software projects to Bee - you just will not be able to update their rankings or Sprints. If supported, your JIRA Software project will appear in both the ‘Projects’ and ‘Boards’ sections in the new project window (File > Import New…
Commit Form When any form is displayed - you can commit the form by hitting Command-Return . Jump to Comment Box On any selected item, you can hit Command-Shift-r to jump to the Comment box to start typing your reply. Open in browser On any selected item, you can open the item in your browser by hitting Command-Shift-w . Open in new window You can open any selected item inside of a new window by…
Subcases To create a subcase, select the case you want to create the subcase under. Then hit Shift-Return . Notifications Notifications are shown for new cases and all case events, e.g. case updated, case assigned, etc. Creating Areas Group your project by Area (View > Group By > Area). Go to File > New Area. Creating Milestones Group your project by Milestone (View > Group By > Milestone). Go to…
A Notes project represents a folder of text files on your Mac. Notes finds and reads text files with the following file extensions: txt, mark, markdown, md, mdml, mdown, text, mdtext, mdtxt, mdwn, mkd, mkdn. These files are automatically highlighted in Markdown . If you are running 10.9 or later, you can also directly edit the tags of your files by double-clicking them in the left-hand items pane.…
Custom Notifications One of Bee’s most popular features are the notifications that are displayed whenever your teammates conduct activity on your issue tracker. Now you can customise exactly which notifications you see. Just open the Preferences window ( Command-, ) and construct rules to filter out any unwanted notifications. You can also add sub-rules by holding down the Option key and…
Projects are what are displayed in Bee’s Switcher (accessible from the titlebar). A project contains your notes/cases/issues (items). The right-pane contains the details of the selected item in the project. There are 2 different kinds of Projects: Regular Projects Manuscript projects GitHub repositories GitHub special projects (e.g. “All Issues Mentioning Me”) JIRA projects JIRA…
Smart Projects are projects which allow you to define rules for filtering. They allow you to quickly and easily see only the items that you wish to see. Creating a Smart Project Open the Switcher by clicking the title of the project in the window’s titlebar. Click the ‘+’ button in the bottom left-hand corner and select ‘Create Smart Project’. Enter in a title for…
Your Mac GitHub Issues Client Power through your issues easier and faster with a native client. GitHub Issues is a great tool to stay connected with your team — but sometimes it’s a little too basic. You need a tool that has the right balance of simplicity and power. Navigating the website can be frustrating, cumbersome and slow. And what happens when you have multiple projects that…
Your Mac JIRA Client Don’t wait on JIRA — take control with a native client tailored to the way you work. You’ve probably often thought “there has to be a better way” . I know, I’ve been there. As a software professional, you don’t want to spend the day fighting your tools — you just want to get stuff done . I was working for a major media…
Your Mac Manuscript Client Speed up your everyday workflow and power through your cases with ease. There’s got to be a faster way of doing this. That’s the sentence I used to hear in my head everytime I had to login to the Manuscript website. I use Manuscript for handling all of Bee’s customer support enquiries so I know all about Manuscript’s pain-points. Bee is designed…
One of Bee’s goals is to allow you to time your tasks as seamlessly as possible. If you hover your mouse over the left edge of an item row, the item’s icon will grow larger allowing you to click it to reveal the radial menu. In the radial menu, you can click the ‘play’ button to start timing that item. Your work logs are automatically sent to your server if your service…
Here’s a collection of tips to help improve your workflow. Stars Whilst you can always hit Command-Option-n to mark an item as Next, you can also hit Command-Option-s to star it. Starred items are indicated by a small star icon on the right-hand side of the item. Starred items are helpful when you want to group items together but don’t necessarily want to mark them as Next. You can…
If a crash occurs, a crash reporter dialog will appear allowing you the option of sending the crash report. These crash reports don’t contain any sensitive information and help greatly in determining and fixing the issue that caused your issue. If something impedes your work or your enjoyment of Bee, please send feedback by going to ‘Help > Send Feedback’. Alternatively you can…
View Item Right-click the item identifier in the details pane to copy a Bee URL. This is a URL scheme which you can then pass around to your teammates e.g. via iMessage. Also handy for scripting. The URL scheme is of the format: bee://item?id=<item identifier>&project=<project name> <project name> is optional however it is needed if you have multiple items in different projects with the same…
View Profiles allow you to copy 1 Project’s view settings across to other Projects in specific accounts or app-wide. Creating A View Profile Go to View > Create View Profile, then enter in a name for this profile. Editing A View Profile Once you have created a View Profile and have it selected, any view settings you customise will be applied to your active View Profile. This allows you to…