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A lot of people here have been running into the same problem: Dia’s generated web pages now kinda look rough. The styling is inconsistent, dashboards come out messy, and every page looks different from the last.

Quick fix: tell Dia to "use report-kit" in your prompt.

Instead of building the whole page from scratch (HTML, CSS, and all), Dia only writes the content for index.html. The design comes from a pre-built template that already looks clean. Better fonts, better spacing, way more consistent.

Try it next time you ask Dia to make a page. It makes a big difference.

Nate just posted a demo that groups tabs, files and terminals together by project with swipe navigation between them. Pretty cool, though definitely a power-user thing, although if you are one, then the file manager and terminal integration could have some merit

• For now, I use this extension to make the downloads folder I visit look better: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/file-explorer/cmibdnmeihbjkdgnohgjeelkofcnfhid
• Here is where the original post is: x.com/nateparrott/status/2052147683964387784

In Dia’s chat settings, you can connect apps. What this basically means is that websites become little apps that you can connect for your daily reports or for context. I like this idea. Here are some I’d love to see added:

• Craftdocs. This can be connected via MCP and API easily if need be, but also would be good for people who use that as a Notion alternative. This would also then be reconfigured so that when you type in a new note, it can optionally open a new note in Craft rather than just Notion.
• Web.whatsapp.com is pretty useful for people who use WhatsApp for their work, which I do. It can summarize messages that may have been missed about stuff like updates and work group channels or friends’ outings and stuff.
• X.com/i/chat could be pretty useful for people who use it to chat with friends.
• Instagram could also be pretty useful to check messages and responses to posts.
• Youtube.com/subscriptions to see stuff that might be important in the sense of stuff I want to keep seeing, like from a YouTuber I want to watch to relax.
• Figma would be great for designers and product people. Being able to pull in recent file activity or comments on designs so you can stay in the loop on visual work without having to open Figma constantly.
• Jira would be solid since a lot of teams use it for project tracking. Being able to see assigned tickets, sprint progress, or blockers in a daily report would save a ton of context-switching.
• Confluence pairs well with Jira. If your team documents decisions, specs, or meeting notes in Confluence, having Dia pull that in for context would be really helpful.
• Asana is similar to Jira but for teams that prefer it. Task updates, project milestones, and stuff assigned to you.
• Telegram is like WhatsApp in that a lot of people use it for work groups, especially in crypto/tech communities. Summarizing missed messages would be clutch.
• Discord would be useful for people in community-heavy roles or who manage Discord servers. Catching up on key channels or mentions without scrolling through everything.
• Reddit would be good for people who follow specific subreddits for work (like r/programming, r/startups, industry-specific ones). Surfacing top posts or discussions could be a solid context source.
• Trello is a lightweight project board option. Good for freelancers or smaller teams who track work in Trello.
• Shopify would be useful for anyone running an e-commerce store. Pulling in order updates, sales stats, or inventory alerts would be great in a morning report.

In Dia’s chat settings, you can connect apps. What this basically means is that websites become little apps that you can connect for your daily reports or for context. I like this idea. Here are some I’d love to see added:

• Craftdocs. This can be connected via MCP and API easily if need be, but also would be good for people who use that as a Notion alternative. This would also then be reconfigured so that when you type in a new note, it can optionally open a new note in Craft rather than just Notion.
• Web.whatsapp.com is pretty useful for people who use WhatsApp for their work, which I do. It can summarize messages that may have been missed about stuff like updates and work group channels or friends’ outings and stuff.
• X.com/i/chat could be pretty useful for people who use it to chat with friends.
• Instagram could also be pretty useful to check messages and responses to posts.
• Youtube.com/subscriptions to see stuff that might be important in the sense of stuff I want to keep seeing, like from a YouTuber I want to watch to relax.
• Figma would be great for designers and product people. Being able to pull in recent file activity or comments on designs so you can stay in the loop on visual work without having to open Figma constantly.
• Jira would be solid since a lot of teams use it for project tracking. Being able to see assigned tickets, sprint progress, or blockers in a daily report would save a ton of context-switching.
• Confluence pairs well with Jira. If your team documents decisions, specs, or meeting notes in Confluence, having Dia pull that in for context would be really helpful.
• Asana is similar to Jira but for teams that prefer it. Task updates, project milestones, and stuff assigned to you.
• Telegram is like WhatsApp in that a lot of people use it for work groups, especially in crypto/tech communities. Summarizing missed messages would be clutch.
• Discord would be useful for people in community-heavy roles or who manage Discord servers. Catching up on key channels or mentions without scrolling through everything.
• Spotify isn’t work-related but could be nice for the vibe side of things, like seeing what’s new from artists you follow or your Discover Weekly.
• Reddit would be good for people who follow specific subreddits for work (like r/programming, r/startups, industry-specific ones). Surfacing top posts or discussions could be a solid context source.
• Trello is a lightweight project board option. Good for freelancers or smaller teams who track work in Trello.
• Shopify would be useful for anyone running an e-commerce store. Pulling in order updates, sales stats, or inventory alerts would be great in a morning report.

People treat Burnhamthorpe like it’s just a road for moving cars. I get it. It’s wide and fast and that’s how most people experience it.

But look at what’s actually there. Celebration Square, the Central Library, Living Arts Centre, Civic Centre, Square One, Kariya Park, condos going up everywhere from City Centre to Dixie, community centres, plazas, restaurants. Thousands of people live, work, and spend time along this corridor every day. And the 26 bus connects it directly to Kipling Station, which means a one-seat ride into the subway.

That connection matters. If you’re commuting to a job along Bloor or downtown Toronto, the 26 to Kipling is one of the most direct routes you’ve got. And it works both ways. Someone in Toronto who wants to visit Square One or catch a show at Living Arts shouldn’t need a car. Kipling to Burnhamthorpe on a fast bus is a real option, if the bus isn’t stuck in traffic.

Right now the 26 crawls through the same congestion as everyone else. That’s the problem. Slow buses mean fewer riders, fewer riders mean the city cuts frequency, fewer buses mean even fewer riders. Dedicated lanes break that cycle. Faster service brings more riders, more riders justify better frequency, and it builds from there.

Mississauga already paints red bus lanes at stops and has been doing it since 2017. I’m saying just scale it up. Paint curbside lanes where Burnhamthorpe has three lanes each direction. Where it narrows to two, buses run in mixed traffic. I’m fine with that. We’re talking paint, signage, and signal work. Toronto does this exact thing with RapidTO. Ballpark, maybe $3 to $5 million for the whole corridor. Compare that to the billions the Dundas BRT costs.

There’s an economic upside too. Cleveland’s HealthLine BRT generated $5.8 billion in development along its corridor. Faster, more reliable transit means people actually stop at places along the way instead of driving past them. That’s Burnhamthorpe’s potential. Square One, Living Arts, Celebration Square, restaurants, retail, thousands of condo units. All of that benefits when more people can get there without a car. And people coming in from Toronto through Kipling would have a reason to visit and spend money here.

The timing works because you can only paint these lanes in summer when the paint cures properly. Do it in winter and it peels right off. Summer is starting now.

I used AI to generate some visuals of what this could look like. They’re not perfect but they’re here to show what’s possible.

Has anyone tried Clicky? I find it both useful and confusing at the same time.

I saw Farza (the Buildspace guy) posting about it on Twitter and decided to try it out. The idea is cool. It’s a little AI buddy that follows your cursor around and can see your screen when you activate it with Ctrl+Option. It runs on Claude under the hood and it’s open source.

In theory it makes a lot of sense. You’re stuck in an app, you hit the shortcut, it sees what you’re looking at and helps you out. I’ve seen people say it’s great for learning new software like DaVinci Resolve or Blender.

But in practice I’m struggling to figure out when to actually use it. Most of the time I just forget it’s there. And when I do remember, I’m not always sure what to ask. It feels like one of those tools where you need to already know what you don’t know, if that makes sense.

There’s also very little discussion about it online, which makes it harder to figure out if I’m just using it wrong or if other people feel the same way. So I wanted to ask here. Has anyone been using Clicky regularly? What are you actually using it for? I want to like it more than I do right now.

I currently use Chronicle to track my bills, subscriptions, income, and spending, and I genuinely love it. The design feels native on macOS, the UI is clean, and it’s been great for planning my finances.

That said, I’m curious what else is out there in this space. Not because I want to replace Chronicle, but because I like seeing how other apps approach financial tracking. Sometimes exploring alternatives surfaces cool features or ideas that would be worth suggesting back to the Chronicle dev.

Anyone have recommendations for similar bill/subscription trackers on Mac with a nice native UI? Would love to hear what you all are using and what you like about them.

Two quick things from a daily user. First, when Dia asks to read a website, there should be an “always allow” option that actually works (unlike the checkbox in the overlay). I give permission every single time. This could live in Dia’s advanced settings as a simple toggle, so power users can set it once and forget it.

Second, pressing Enter on the permission dialog doesn’t do anything. You have to click the button with your mouse. Small thing, but it breaks the flow.

Dia already has a great Notion integration where it can search and pull context from your docs. Craft Docs recently launched both a public API and MCP support, which means the same kind of integration should be totally doable.

A lot of people use Craft for their notes and team docs. Being able to have Dia read and reference Craft pages the same way it does with Notion would be huge. Right now if you’re a Craft user you’re kind of left out of the whole “browser that knows your work” thing.

Would love to see this added to the list of connections!

The problem:

When I select text on a webpage and use “Search Google for [text]” (right-click or the selection overlay), every result I open becomes a random, unorganized tab in the sidebar. Follow-up tabs from those results float around too, completely disconnected from the original search. The same thing happens with PopClip and Raycast Google searches.

Within a few searches, the sidebar is a mess of ungrouped tabs with no clear connection to each other.

The fix:

Dia should automatically create a tab group whenever a search is triggered from selected text.

1. Auto-name the group (already a feature)
2. Open the search results inside that group
3. Any tabs opened from those results should inherit the group automatically

This keeps research clustered by topic instead of scattered across the sidebar. Option-click already lets you open links into a new group, so the logic exists. This would just extend it to the most common research pattern: select text, search it, go deeper.

The best version of this idea:

The text selection overlay that shows “Ask about this” and “Search Google” should appear on all web pages, not just Dia’s AI chat. If it triggered a couple seconds after selecting text, it wouldn’t get in the way.

Combined with auto-grouping, you’d get a clean loop: select text, search from the overlay, and have everything land in an organized tab group automatically.

I personally think the grey is a step in the wrong direction. Make them bright orange like the Tangerine bikes or red and white like the streetcars and upcoming Line 2 trains. That said, I do know this is a very first world problem, so take this with a grain of salt.

The bigger issue is comfort. Most Torontonians commute by car, and if you want to convert even a fraction of those people to bike share for shorter trips, the seats need to be way better. Seats more similar to Dutch city bikes would go a long way. And it's still fine if most of the power is electric and the rest is actual pedaling, because that's still better than an SUV in a walkable neighbourhood.

Everything else about the new prototype is really nice. I love the ring LED light, the deep mudguards that keep your pants clean, and the Lyft branding since it pressures those who Uber to consider a faster bike trip instead. Of course Bill 212 will be a thorn, but optimistically it gets repealed in the 2030s when we get a new premier.

Glaze is launching soon and I made a list of apps I want to build. Most of these already exist in some form, but they’re all stuck on older macOS designs, and nobody’s rebuilding them for Liquid Glass. I don’t have Glaze access yet, so I’m not sure if it can reliably make these, so only one way to find out.

Transit App
macOS has no real transit app. Apple Maps technically does directions but if you’ve used the Transit app on iOS/Android, you know it’s not even close. I want something native that hooks into a maps API and actually looks good. Made a separate post about this.

Universal AI Overlay
ChatGPT’s Mac app has a great global overlay (I mapped mine to Hyper+Space), but it’s locked to GPT 5.4 ofc. I want the same thing for any model (Claude, Perplexity, whatever) with customizable styling and be able to load 'skills' from a Markdown file.

Smart Screenshot Renamer
Every screenshot I take lands on my Desktop with a useless timestamp name. I want an app that grabs new screenshots, runs OCR, sends the text to an AI model, and renames the file to something descriptive, while then auto-sorting it into subfolders. Would stop my Desktop looing like a mess.

Screen Time Tracker (TimeSink Alternative)
TimeSink is great for tracking how you spend time on your Mac, but it hasn’t been updated for Liquid Glass. I want to build a modern version with clean usage stats, per-app breakdowns, and a native Liquid Glass UI.

Chess
Genuinely surprised there’s no Liquid Glass, modern chess app yet. If chess.com has an API, online play would be a nice addition.

Pomodoro Timer
Simple one, but every pomodoro app I’ve tried looks dated. A clean Liquid Glass timer with a good UI seems like a solid starter project.

Focus Dashboard
A Liquid Glass productivity dashboard that combines a focus timer, to-do list, layered ambient soundscapes, focus stats, and different modes (home, focus, ambient). Inspired by Flocus, which does all of this really well but is browser-only with no native Mac app. Helpful for dual-monitor setups, letting one screen stay on this dashboard in full screen at all times.

AppCleaner Alternative
AppCleaner works great but hasn’t been updated for Liquid Glass. Would be a fun one to rebuild, as a lightweight app uninstaller with a modern native look.

These are just my ideas, and would love to hear yours as well.