Synk 7 is designed to run live, synchronizing in the background as changes happen. You don’t need to keep the main Synk application open and taking up space on your screen all the time for this to happen. Feel free to quit the application when you're done with it, and Synk continues to work in the background.
While the application isn’t open, you still want to be able to tell how the scripts are doing. If there’s an error, or something needs attention, you want to know, and it’s even just nice to see a reassuring “you’re all in sync” indicator before you grab that laptop and walk out the door at the end of the day.
To this end, Synk shows the status of all of your scripts in the menu bar, in the same order they appear in the regular script list:
In this example, you have 6 scripts set up: the first script has an error, the second script is turned off, the third script is in sync, the fourth script is turned off, and the fifth and sixth scripts are paused. In this area, you can see at a glance the basic status of all of your scripts.
If you want more details about the status of the scripts, click on the status item in the menu bar:
Selecting any of the scripts from the menu shows that script in the main Synk application, launching it if necessary.
If you have a lot of scripts and the status area in the menu is getting cluttered, you can use the “Show in Menu Bar” option in the menu to choose between “All scripts” (the default), “Most Important Status”, which shows only the icon of the script that most needs your attention (though all scripts will appear in the drop-down menu), or “Hide”, which will hide the menu altogether. This setting is also available via Synk > Preferences, which is where you can restore the menu if you set it to “Hide” at some point.