Coming soon: an optional magazine-style layout for detailed event bubbles—clearer source, title, time, and footer order, with the same bubble shortcuts, color bars, and neon accents you already use.
When you hover the timeline, the event bubble is where Sidefy packs the most context into a small space. In an upcoming release, we will ship a refined layout so long entries and plugin events read more like a short article than a dense block of metadata. Below is a preview of what that will look like and how it will behave.
What’s coming
After the update ships, you’ll enable it by turning off Simple bubble mode under Appearance Settings → Theme (the Simple item), then choosing Appearance Settings → Bubble → Detailed Layout → Magazine. Compared with Classic detailed bubbles, Magazine will read top to bottom like this:
- Source — origin and plugin or feed name on their own row (no time mixed into that row)
- Title — headline (and optional original-title line when enabled); keyboard number hints stay on the left color bar, same as today
- Time — range or all-day text in the capsule row below the title
- Rule icons — left-aligned before the footer block (in Classic, the same icons sit on the right of the inline metadata row)
- Divider — only when the event has a calendar deep link and/or notes; it separates that footer from the lines above
- Footer — calendar open link and/or notes text below the divider when present (images are not duplicated here in Magazine—they use the side thumbnail instead)
Magazine will show a compact square thumbnail on the right of the text column when an event has an image (hidden when Imageless mode is on under Appearance Settings → Theme). Classic detailed layout keeps images in the flow below the divider—full-width, above the calendar link and notes. Color bars, selection highlight, and neon-style accents will match Classic; what changes is metadata order, spacing, rule-icon alignment, and how images are framed.
Why “Magazine”
The name matches the intent: title-driven reading, with source and time as supporting lines, then (when there is linked calendar text or notes) a clean break before that footer—similar to a headline and deck before the story. Events with only an image and no notes or calendar link will skip the divider; you’ll still get source, title, time, rules, and the side thumbnail.
Pagination and keyboard hints at the bottom of the bubble will stay the same, so muscle memory for switching groups and holding modifiers for mouse mode still applies once this ships.
When it lands
After release: turn off Simple under Appearance Settings → Theme if it is on, then go to Appearance Settings → Bubble → Detailed Layout and choose Magazine. You’ll be able to switch back to Classic anytime you prefer the previous ordering.
We’d love to hear which layout fits your workflow once you’ve tried it—feedback welcome via GitHub Issues.
This post describes a feature in development; final behavior and timing may change slightly before the build reaches the Mac App Store.
Rolling out in an upcoming Sidefy release—stay tuned.