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Work in progress... the Task Manager OG Pro disk space visualizer ( Each ball has a mass based on its file size, and they settle using gravity and physics towards the center. Thoughts?

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Eric Anderson's profile picture
Eric Anderson1 month ago

Hard to beat windirstat maybe you can fork and clean up the performance?

Dave W Plummer's profile picture
Dave W Plummer1 month ago

Nah, they own the rectangle space. I'm trying to invent something better by adding motion and physics!

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Boquila1 month ago

bro even the website is vibecoded

Dave W Plummer's profile picture
Dave W Plummer1 month ago

You say it like you could do better by hand. I'll wait.

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webXOS1 month ago

Needs a legacy ui similar to:

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The Running Man 🏃‍♂️1 month ago

Is something like Windows' Resource Monitor possible on macOS? I like the way you can filter processes accessing files/disk/network/RAM/CPU by checking boxes. I haven't seen anything like this on macOS.

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Sean Buckley1 month ago

Is there cpu temp been asking microsoft to add it but they never have

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nakedeyes1 month ago

Cool to look at but I feel I would miss windirstat method of combining things at folder scope as well. Not sure it’s as useful seeing large .bins from across my PC when only 1 of them ( and its accompanying folder of other files ) would be likely to be removed. Cool tho!

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JD Conley1 month ago

would be sweet to have something with the functionality of windirstat

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TheLoneJuans1 month ago

I want to watch this while it defrags.

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ibisum1 month ago

I'd prefer a normal, very fast, heat map. I don't want to be entertained by my disk overview - I want to observe its usage patterns, as quickly as possible, over time. The heatmap should be fast. If I want history and animation, gource works great for such things.

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Dave Troy1 month ago

Have a look at GrandPerspective on the Mac. Similar idea, works very well.

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Grat1 month ago

The problem is not the visualization, but the lack of easy filtering and actions. Check SpaceSniffer filtering regexp for example, and couple that with actions like in gdu, empty a dir or a file, delete, view properties, or open the file/folder. It needs to be useful and usable.

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GCS451 month ago

Pretty darn cool 😎

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Fill1 month ago

liked it, but for fun sake, need to add temperature and vibration

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Keven Crick1 month ago

someone has gotten into using AI for coding lol

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SomeOfParts1 month ago

You probably already thought of this, but it needs some filters, so you can filter out System files, folders you don't care about, etc. I'd also consider that a folder itself can get a bubble if it becomes large enough (excluding already represented files).

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XParameters1 month ago

So much wasted space in between the circles. SpaceMonger got it right forever and always. Those boxes expand and re-pack themselves as it scans, and there's an optional Free Space box too to round out your whole drive capacity picture.

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Vítor - e/acc1 month ago

is FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 valid to activate pro?

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Ersin Akyüz1 month ago

great, but its not showing Memory Utilization on Mac Mini M4 (Sequoia)

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GTX 1080 Ti FTW31 month ago

Could you have used a less obnoxious font please?

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Michael Cohen1 month ago

It's nifty, but not very practical. If filesize=ball size, and ball size=(eventual) position, then it's basically a slow and redundant way to sort by filesize. If we focus on practical and useful over nifty and redundant: - Ball size = filesize - Ball color = file type (assuming) Those two properties are already represented visually, so we don't need to represent them positionally. So what else is useful? Definitely nested folder groups and hierarchies, but like you said, those have been perfected already by WinDirStat and the like. What about a rotatable 3D graph (T.I.E. Fighter map, anyone?) with each axis being one of Created Date, Last Accessed Date, and Last Modified Date? Scatter the files along that, and I wonder what patterns will emerge. 🤔

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Jonathan Yantis1 month ago

I prefer a tree map, and it seems you’re about a prompt away!

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W.M.Bauer1 month ago

How come a Windows veteran suddenly writes so much Mac stuff?

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JDoors1 month ago

With essentially infinite disk space nowadays I have lost interest in file or folder sizes. I'm glad I don't have to obsess anymore. 🙂

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Dave W Plummer1 month ago

Sadly, Macs don't live in that world.

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Core Control Unit1 month ago

Looks cool! You are having fun with AI and I like to see more people doing so.

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Emerjux1 month ago

With all my admiration of your work, you're task manager won't be as cool as psdoom-ng, I've never anything better than this

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Jakub Stuglik1 month ago

when do you think you can release Windows version?

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Michael B. Smith1 month ago

it seems unlikely that you can represent every file in such a display, can you? also, if you hover over the file do you get salient attributes?

Dave W Plummer's profile picture
Dave W Plummer1 month ago

Top 1000 are shown (configurable). If you click the ball, you get a little tooltip car with all the file details. I tried hot-tracking first but it was a little chaotic!

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Aspen Feltner1 month ago

WOAH it’s like 3d windirstat!

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TechCat1 month ago

Neat, but it would be nice to have different styles based on preference. For example, I prefer the different sized rectangles WizTree uses but I also like the circular, pie chart-like style of DaisyDisk.

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Vítor - e/acc1 month ago

I want pro for free, where i can get a stolen key?

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Jacob1 month ago

Oh, that is cool. That’s gonna give the old defrag screen a run for its money.

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1 month ago

Love the idea. Would be fun if you could click on the balls to inspect what files it is covered by it.

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Apoptygma_Berzerk1 month ago

Nice but out of context with this geeky retro. Instead of 3D matte balls try retro pixel type balls representation.

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Christian Bjelle1 month ago

Neat!

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