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We originally built the Raycast integration to make searching and logging time in awork faster for ourselves. As it turned out, it helped quite a few others, too. Next, we wanted to keep the most useful information visible at all times, so we could stay on top of our time entries and new tasks.

Since we’re big fans of the Elgato Stream Deck, bringing the two together felt like a natural next step. The customizable controller with its small display keys puts awork information right on your desk.

Tracked Time, Right on the Key

Tracked Time Today shows how much work time you’ve already logged in awork today. The plugin compares that time with your configured daily working hours and displays your progress directly on the key.

It’s especially useful when, between meetings and project work, you find yourself wondering: have I logged everything for today? A glance at the Stream Deck gives you a quick overview, and pressing the key takes you straight to the relevant view in awork.

Your Tasks at a Glance

How many tasks are still open? Have any new ones come in? The Task Count action displays the number of tasks directly on a Stream Deck key. You can choose from three personal views, New Tasks, My Tasks and Private Tasks, or give each view its own key.

Setup & Download

The plugin runs on macOS and Windows. To get started, create an API client in awork; this may require admin permissions. You’ll find each step in our setup guide. Then choose which information appears on each key. You can set the refresh interval for each key individually.

You can find the plugin in the official Elgato Marketplace and install it on your Stream Deck for free. Enjoy, and may your time entries and tasks always be in view!

This is the first in a series of Stream Deck plugins we’ve developed and published for professionals and ourselves. Also available:

• Web Analytics for Stream Deck, which displays website metrics from the popular, GDPR-compliant analytics services Matomo, Plausible and Fathom.
• Feed Key for Stream Deck, our take on a feed reader for Elgato’s hardware controller. A badge lets you know about new content in RSS and Atom feeds, YouTube channels, GitHub releases and podcasts, and pressing the key opens the source.

We’ll take a closer look at these here on the blog soon.

Since we introduced our awork extension for Raycast, it’s become part of daily work for us and many other teams. Find projects, open tasks and track time, all from the launcher with a few keystrokes. This update brings awork and Raycast closer together with several new features.

Raycast 2 and Windows

With the arrival of Raycast 2 and Raycast for Windows, we’ve updated the extension to support both, while keeping it running smoothly in Raycast 1.

Project & Task Keys

awork recently introduced Project and Task Keys: unique IDs for projects and tasks, and a feature we’d often requested ourselves. The extension now supports them too. If you’ve enabled keys in awork, you’ll see them in Raycast. If you haven’t, everything works as before.

Create Task / Edit Task

Creating and editing awork tasks was our most requested feature. Now, Create Task is available as a standalone command alongside Search Projects, Search Tasks and Log Time. Select a project and open the pre-filled form from the submenu or with ^C on macOS or CTRL+C on Windows. Welcome to our new Windows users! To edit a task, choose Edit Task from its submenu or use ^E or CTRL+E. You can create subtasks in the same way, provided the selected task isn’t already a subtask.

awork Meets Raycast AI

These features are also available through Raycast’s AI tools. Use @awork to find projects and tasks, track time, or create and edit tasks in natural language. Before creating or changing a task, Raycast shows you the details to confirm, as usual.

The updated extension is available now in the official Raycast Store.

Our awork video profile shows why awork works so well for us and how we use it with our clients. The extension grew out of that everyday work: a small tool that evolves with our needs and with the expanding features of awork and Raycast.

The new hypercode.de grew out of a question: how can we better show who we are and what we do? A lot has changed. Hypercode has grown, our portfolio has evolved and we’ve raised our expectations of how we present ourselves¹. The new website reflects that. It speaks more directly, shows more of our work and makes it clearer what we do for our clients.

Show, don't tell

We’ve built on the approach of the previous site. Hypercode is a Digital Product Studio with high standards, and we want that to come across from the first moment. More contrast, stronger accents and a visual language drawn from our work help make that happen. Less explaining, more showing.

That’s why the new hypercode.de features much more video, taken directly from our projects rather than stock libraries. New case studies show how those projects took shape, from strategy and planning to development. From the homepage showreel to individual project screencasts, the website gives you a closer look at our work than ever.

Spotlight: Our Services

Our redesigned service pages are central to the new site structure. They explain how we work and what we build. We’ve grouped them into What We Do, covering our expertise, and What We Create, showing the products and outcomes we deliver with our clients:

What We Do

• Product Strategy & Architecture — We help shape digital strategies and product ideas, advise on technology and architecture, and examine related business processes to identify solutions early.
• UX/UI Design — We create engaging user experiences with a design language tailored to each client. Working closely with development lets us carry complex design requirements through to the finished product.
• Software & Web Development — We build fast, intuitive mobile apps, web apps, configurators, websites and web services that people enjoy using.

What We Create

• Mobile Apps for iOS & Android — We build mobile apps that work well across platforms, combining reliable engineering, clear design and integration with the systems they need. Our work spans hybrid architectures and native device features.
• Corporate Websites — We design and build custom websites that make complex content easy to navigate, communicate technical expertise and engage visitors through fast performance and thoughtful interactions.
• Web Apps & Product Configurators — Interactive tools that help people make decisions and speed up processes. Modular and scalable, they fit into existing systems and business models.
• Custom Software — When off-the-shelf tools fall short, we build software around your requirements, with modular architecture, room to scale and a clear focus on maintainability and efficiency.

You’ll also find the occasional Easter egg. We think a business website should be fun, too. 🐣 Enjoy exploring — and, as always, we’d love your feedback and suggestions!

Project management tools came and went. Honestly, none of us ever got particularly excited about them. 🙈

Then, over two and a half years ago, we discovered awork. We’ve been using the Hamburg team’s software to organize our projects ever since, and we’ve become fans. Last year, we even released our own awork extension for Raycast to make it an even closer part of our product development workflow.

We were pleased to welcome the awork team to our office recently to discuss how we use the software, particularly when working with clients directly in a project. Joining us was Florian Ehle from dimedis, a client we work with in awork every day, including on trade fair and event apps.

The awork team listened closely to our feedback and made the video above during their visit. Bringing the studio, client and partner perspectives together is what makes this useful for us. Thanks for coming and for the open conversation! 🙌