Adding services

Pick from the list

Click + at the bottom of the sidebar, or choose Services → Add New Service…. The window lists the services Labaro knows how to set up:

• Bluesky
• Discord
• Facebook Messenger
• Gmail
• Google Drive
• Google Meet
• Google Sheets
• Instagram, which opens on your direct messages
• LinkedIn, which opens on Messaging
• Mastodon, on mastodon.social
• Slack
• Steam Chat
• WhatsApp
• X, which opens on your messages
• Zoom

Set it up, then add it

Picking a service opens a second window, Labaro — Add followed by the service’s name. It has the same options as the service’s Edit window, so you can rename it, choose light or dark, turn its notifications on and so on before it’s added. Service settings explains each option.

Nothing is saved until you click Add. The new service then opens in the main window, and both windows close. Cancel takes you back to the list.

Add any web app by its address

To add something that isn’t on the list, pick Custom URL. Give it a name of up to 60 characters and its web address, starting with https:// or http://. Then click Next to set it up and add it as above.

A service added this way:

• Stays on its own site. Links to anywhere else open in your browser. If signing in takes you through another site, such as your company’s sign-in page, add that site’s address under Advanced in the service’s Edit window. See Links and signing in.
• Uses the first letter of its name as its icon.
• Has no notifications and isn’t checked while it’s asleep. Its badge shows what the page puts in its title while it’s open.

If the address belongs to a service on the list, such as https://yourteam.slack.com, Labaro treats it as that service, with its icon, checks and notifications.

Two accounts of the same service

Pick the service again. The second one is called, for example, Slack (2). It has its own sign-in, so it can be a different workspace or account. Rename it in its Edit window to tell them apart.

Each account needs macOS 14 or later to keep its sign-in separate. On older versions, they share one, so signing in to one signs the other out.

Find the services you already use

Tools → Detect Services… looks through your browsers’ history for services Labaro knows. It checks Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Chromium, Firefox and Zen. It lists the services it finds and the browsers it found them in. Tick the ones you want and click Add Services. Select All ticks the lot.

• Services you already have in Labaro are listed ticked, and can’t be unticked.
• Services added this way skip the set-up window and start with the usual settings. Change them afterwards in each one’s Edit window.
• Your history stays on your Mac. Labaro only picks out web addresses from it.

Safari: macOS only lets apps read Safari’s history with Full Disk Access. To include Safari, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access and turn on Labaro. Without it, Labaro looks through your other browsers and says Safari couldn’t be read.