Floatick — Floating Todos and Notes for macOS
An open-source, local-first macOS app for lightweight tasks and notes.
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-Floatick is an offline-friendly desktop todo and notes app that rests above your
+Floatick is an offline-friendly desktop todo and quick notes app that rests above your
workspace as a small, draggable icon. Click it and the icon expands into a
focused panel; collapse it and the icon returns to the same anchor. The panel chooses
its expansion direction from the available screen space, so it stays useful
-near any display edge.
+near any display edge. Tasks move through a deliberately small flow—Todo,
+Doing, and Done—with optional deadlines and quiet in-app reminders.
## A focused macOS space for tasks and notes
- **Always within reach** — drag the floating icon anywhere, then click to open.
- **Fast task flow** — create, edit, complete, search, archive, restore, and
organize tasks in automatic daily sections.
-- **Lightweight notes** — capture ideas, logs, and snippets with search, pinning,
- archiving, shared tags, autosave, and Markdown preview.
+- **Visible focus** — mark the task you are actively working on as Doing, give
+ it a calm visual emphasis, and filter the list to active work.
+- **Deadlines without noise** — set a due time while creating or editing a todo,
+ or directly from the list; Floatick surfaces a compact in-app reminder and
+ keeps overdue tasks visible without relying on system notifications.
+- **Lightweight quick notes** — capture ideas, logs, and snippets grouped by
+ date, with search, pinning, archiving, shared tags, autosave, and Markdown preview.
+- **Shared organization** — reuse color-coded tags across todos and notes,
+ combine filters, and copy a complete todo as Markdown.
- **Local by default** — no account, cloud service, or telemetry. Your todo and
note data remains in `~/.floatick`.
- **Made for macOS** — transparent AppKit window behavior, keyboard shortcuts,
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| Create a note | Open Notes and choose New |
| Search the current workspace | Press `⌘F` |
| Edit a todo | Hover over the item and choose Edit |
+| Start or stop Doing | Hover over a todo and use its play control |
+| Show only active work | Use the Doing filter beside search |
+| Set or edit a deadline | Use the alarm control on a todo row or in the todo editor |
| Complete a todo | Select its checkbox |
| Archive or restore | Use the action at the end of the item |
| Quit Floatick | Right-click the floating icon and choose Quit |
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| Path | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
-| `~/.floatick/todos.json` | Todos, completion state, and archive state |
+| `~/.floatick/todos.json` | Todos, Doing/completion state, deadlines, reminders, and archive state |
| `~/.floatick/notes.json` | Notes, tags, pinning, and archive state |
| `~/.floatick/tags.json` | Reusable tags shared by todos and notes |
| `~/.floatick/settings.json` | Theme and language preferences |
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