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Spotlight · Slate
Your desktop,
doing the remembering.
Slate mirrors Apple Reminders: tell Siri, and it lands on your wallpaper with today’s calendar beside it. Tick it off and the desktop redraws.
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Every app gets its own card, its own colour, its own story.
SlatemacOSA todo app whose list is your wallpaper.
Your tasks, rendered straight onto the desktop. Tick one off, the wallpaper updates.
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Cat ModeChromeBlocks your keyboard so the cat can't.
One click makes the keyboard cat-proof. The video keeps playing.
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ueueiOSSave any link. Actually get to it.
Every “watch later” in one calm queue: phone, Mac and browser.
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OreomacOSLive activities and widgets in your Mac's notch.
Now playing, timers and a file tray. Living in the notch you already have.
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ClickkmacOSMechanical keyboard sounds for every keystroke.
Every keystroke sounds like a real switch. Nothing you type is ever read.
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PrismChromeA Chrome extension and web app.
Your watch-later, organised and distraction-free in Chrome.
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IceTames the menu bar.ViewSShottrAnnotate anything.ViewWhy Ziyarex
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Most are free; Slate and Oreo have one-time unlocks, no subscriptions anywhere. Each app’s card says exactly what it costs before you click.
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