Space Command is in playtest. It’s the Mac app that grew out of warped-command, my Obsidian plugin, but it works across all my folders instead of one vault. It reads the plans, TODOs, ideas, and posts I keep in plain text and shows me the one thing to do next. The alpha is running on my own repos, vaults, and Hugo sites now, and I’m finding the rough edges. There’s no public download yet, and it needs macOS 26. ...
The first teaser for Space Command, the Mac sidebar I’m building for the plans and TODOs I already keep in plain text. ...
Post tasks #todo move this whole post to projects, where both this and scorekeep will get a section for changelogs/posts/etc. Outline Your projects already live in plain text. Space Command reads them and shows you the one thing to do next. Space Command is a native macOS sidebar app. It sits at the edge of your screen, a click from the menu bar, and works on your files where they are: Git repos, notes vaults, and Hugo blogs. Nothing to import, no second copy to keep in sync, and nothing leaves your Mac. ...
After thirty-something years of working in terminals, I’ve developed a pretty strong bias toward doing things from the command line. It can be faster for me to navigate around using scripts and shortcuts than clicking through GUI hierarchies. The muscle memory is there, the automation possibilities are endless, and frankly, it just feels more direct. The problem is that GUI applications don’t always want to cooperate with this workflow. You end up breaking your flow to hunt through Spotlight, dig around in Finder, or, worst of all, try to remember the actual executable path buried somewhere deep in an .app bundle. It’s jarring when you’re in the zone. ...