New open source tool: Customizable help button for ALL Sense apps

mountaindude — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:56:36 GMT

This has been brewing at the back of my mind for some time, over the past holidays it took form and turned out pretty well, so I've packaged it a bit, and am now happy to preset...

The Help Button project.

Underwhelming name? Yeah, probably. But also effective.
The project solves a pretty common problem in the world of Sense apps:

How can we provide custom, context aware help for our Sense apps?

The help button does this by injecting itself into the main toolbar of every Sense app.
When clicked a small menu will appear, the menu items can open URLs, send an email (mailto:) or open a bug report dialog (which is then posted to some backend server or bug handling tool).

The basic variant looks like this:

The bug reporting variant can look like this:

All colors, menu items, links etc are fully customizable.
There is also a simple but effective template concept, where the currently open app's app and/or sheet idcan be injected into the opened URL. This makes it possible to open a custom help site for each app, and even sheet if so desired.

Full source code, examples etc available on GitHub.
In-depth blog post over at ptarmiganlabs.com.

Enjoy!

Re: New open source tool: Customizable help button for ALL Sense apps

F_B — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:07:15 GMT

This is a very good idea!

Thanks for sharing it

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New open source tool: Customizable help button for ALL Sense apps

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