Keeping track of everything that is happening in your GitLab projects and groups can be quite overwhelming. Often times you care about not only one pr

Why we built GitDock, our desktop app to navigate your GitLab activities

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2021-10-20 22:00:09

Keeping track of everything that is happening in your GitLab projects and groups can be quite overwhelming. Often times you care about not only one project, but multiple ones. Even worse, these projects might even belong to different groups, making everything more complex.

One of our product design managers (@jackib) created a visualization that shows the current project-centric navigation model that we have in place.

This model puts the burden of keeping track of your activities and the work you care about on the user. We would rather look for opportunities where we can enable a more user-centric navigation.

Users already have different ways to stay up to date, for example email notifications, our "to-dos," or custom systems they have set up for themselves. However, when we ran a UX research study, we noticed these tools often times only show a small subset of the things that users are curious about or the tools have to be checked multiple times during the day.

GitDock is a desktop app you can install on your macOS/Windows/Linux machine (download latest release). When installed, you will have an icon on your menu bar that brings up a small window.