macOS · native swift · keyboard-only
what's next?
A distraction-free app that sits on your Mac and shows your last unfinished task in big white text on a black screen. Mark it done. Type the next thing. Keep going.
LIVE DEMO · TRY TYPING
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ship firstlight
install
brew tap daksh-mor/firstlight && brew install --cask firstlight
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daksh-mor/firstlight/main/install.sh | bash
philosophy
01 / SINGLE FOCUS
One task. No backlogs.
Productivity apps drown you in tags, priority matrices, and lists of 80 things you haven't done. FirstLight only ever shows you the one thing you need to do right now.
02 / WAKES WHEN YOU WAKE
Always there, never in the way.
Opens automatically when you log in or wake your Mac from sleep. It greets you when you're ready, without you remembering to open it. Press escape anytime to hide it.
03 / ZERO CLOUD
Plain markdown on your Desktop.
Everything lives in
~/Desktop/FirstLight/tasks.md. Obsidian-friendly, fully editable in any text editor, zero telemetry, zero servers, 100% offline forever.
keyboard controls
| you press | what happens |
|---|---|
| type any letters | write your next task |
| enter / d | mark task done and prompt for the next |
| esc | skip / hide window (stays in background) |
| cmd + g | open the task timeline replay |
| space (in timeline) | play / pause timeline animation |
| cmd + q | quit FirstLight |