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Hey there!

I wanted to offer / promote the idea of adding the feature to minimize the app to the System tray on windows or Menu bar on MacOS. I find myself always having the app open so I can paste any references as I find them / work. However, I sometimes need to cmd+tab or alt+tab and the app starts being annoying / on the way if I just leave it open.

In order to solve this, I think it'd be great if I could choose to minimize the app to the system tray when I'm not using it. It'd get out of the way. And when I need it, it'd be right there waiting for me to open it up again.

I know, this is very silly, I could easily just close the app when not in use, but I think there are many other creatives out there who tend to keep apps open in the background and I'm probably not the only one who has run into this. And I don't see any downsides for regular users if this feature exists or not.

Thank you for the suggestion! We tried to implement this mode a long time ago but never got any feedback on it so it is still not finished unfortunately. If you want to help and give it a try you can enable it by editing the settings file:

Add this line under the [General_Settings] section:
ShowInTray=true

And then restart PureRef.

Thank you so much! this is exactly what I wanted <3!