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Case study · Notchz

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Your day, kept quietlyat the top of the screen.

Notchz is a free Mac app for the small things in a day: the next task, a focus timer, a stray thought and the next meeting. It opens from the top of the screen when you need it and gets out of the way when you don't.

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Product
macOS productivity app
Price
Free, every feature included
Requires
macOS 14+ · Apple silicon
Stage
Early build · v0.1.2
Notchz's compact bar, captured from the running Mac app: the app's mark, its name and a focus status

Hover the top of the screen · or press ⌥ N

The Notchz workspace with example content: tasks, a focus timer at 18:42, a daily notepad and today's calendar

Compact bar captured from the Mac app · workspace from Notchz's interface preview, with example content

The idea

Small things deservea natural home.

A task to remember, a timer for the next hour, a thought worth keeping, a meeting coming up. Most planners ask people to move their whole workflow into them.

Notchz asks for none of that. It lives at the top of the Mac, one hover away, and holds just enough of the day to keep the next thing in view.

One panel

Four rooms,one hover away.

The workspace brings tasks, focus, notes and the calendar side by side, so the plan and the work sit in one place. Choose a module to see where it sits.

  1. Capture a task in a moment, keep to-do and completed lists apart, and choose the one thing to work on next.

Notchz's compact bar, captured from the running Mac app: the app's mark, its name and a focus status

Hover the top of the screen · or press ⌥ N

The Notchz workspace with example content: tasks, a focus timer at 18:42, a daily notepad and today's calendar

Focus

The next thing,always in sight.

Pick a task and begin a focus session. The little timer stays visible while the work happens, as a countdown or a stopwatch, with pause, resume and five more minutes when you need them.

Notchz focus studio: a session in progress at 18:42 on the task Finish the first draft, with Pause and +5 min

Notepad

A thought becomesa task in one keystroke.

Every day starts with a fresh page that saves as you type. When a note turns into something to do, Command–Return turns that line into a task.

Notchz daily notepad with three lines of notes and the hint that Command–Return turns a line into a task

Horizon

What's ahead,and how far you've come.

Upcoming Apple Calendar events can sit beside the day's plans. Calendar access is optional and read-only. Later, a dashboard looks back at completed tasks and real focus time.

Notchz On the horizon card with three calendar events, tasks completed and minutes of focus

Built to stay quiet

Close at hand,never in the way.

  • Out of the way

    Hover at the top of the screen or press Option–N. Otherwise it stays out of sight.

  • Fits any Mac

    Works on Macs with or without a notch.

  • Yours to keep

    Planner data is stored locally, with a JSON backup you control. No account required.

Getting it

One page,one free download.

The download site introduces the app the way it feels to use: calm, with the interface shown up front and one clear action. Every feature is included, and there is no account to create.

It is open about where the product stands, too. The current download is an early development build, and the site says plainly that macOS may ask for approval because it is not yet notarised.

The Notchz download site on mobile: A quieter place for your day
The Notchz site on mobile, introducing the focus studio

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