A quieter way to work on one thing.
Tacked is a small macOS app that holds the one thing you're working on — a calm pill under your menu bar, a faint day-line, and the occasional gentle nudge if you've drifted. It bridges Notion, Trello and Apple Reminders, but never becomes another task manager.
Requires macOS 14 or later. Local-first — no account, no cloud, no analytics.
- A floating pill shows the one thing you've committed to. Empty when you haven't.
- A faint day-line under your menu bar shows where your hours actually went — no streaks, no scoring.
- Awareness pings ask still on this? every fifteen minutes. Confirm or switch.
- Done writes back to Notion, Trello or Reminders — Tacked never becomes the source of truth.
Awareness over enforcement. Agency over plan. No countdowns. A dignified close. Tacked never blocks anything; it only mirrors what you said you'd do against what you're doing.
Hi, I'm Philippe. I co-founded The European Correspondent — a journalism non-profit covering Europe.
I built Tacked because between fundraising, editing, and ops, my brain needed something gentler than another productivity app.
Just a quiet way to tack one thing at a time, and remember what I worked on today.
If it helps you, that's enough.
— Philippe CO-FOUNDER · THE EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT