There have been some questions about what’s in my menu bar as shown in my Macworld session, The Efficient Mac User (this slide). Here’s the list (all 42 icons). It changes frequently, but this is what was running on the morning I grabbed the screenshot for the slide deck.
Left to right:
Main menubar
- Chrome notifications
- Visits
- GrowlVoice
- Glui
- Droplr
- Dropzone
- Shush
- System Volume
- Dropbox
- System Battery
- System Wifi
- System Clock
- Fantastical
- I’m Away
- Bartender
- Undock
- System Spotlight
(Notification center hidden completely, as I only ever access it via two-finger swipe).
Bartender bar
- SSH Proxy
- Bittorrent Sync
- AirVideo Server HD
- Leap Motion (Airspace)
- Fitbit
- Beam
- Climate (for my Nest thermostat)
- ControlPlane
- PopClip
- Simplify
- FastScripts
- Moom
- TextExpander
- Delibar
- Kiwi
- F.lux
- nvALT
- Cobook
- PowerMate
- BetterTouchTool
- System Airplay
- System Time Machine
- System Bluetooth
- System Fast User Switching
- Bartender preferences
For the record, I run all of these on a 13” MacBook Air with 8 Gigs of RAM. I watch my resources carefully, and none of these are causing issues. Notably missing is Arq, which I had quit while working on hotel wifi, and Day One, which usually has its quick entry menu bar icon showing.
Quite a few of the icons could be hidden, but thanks to Bartender, I can keep them around without overflowing my primary menu bar.
