macOS appLocal-first · MIT · v0.23.11
A desktop app for macOS. Plan the day in to-dos and time blocks, think it through in markdown notes, read every schema as an ERD synced from your database, and let AI write the day up. Local-first, on the Claude Code and Codex CLIs you already pay for.
No server. No accounts. No stored API keys.
To-dos / Carry-over
Unfinished work from earlier days waits in an Overdue strip at the top of today. Bring it all over in one click, or one item at a time. The original day keeps a faded record of what moved, and checking it there still completes it.
To-dos / Timetable
Nested checklists grouped under headings, next to a calendar-style time-blocking grid. Drag to create a block with a 15-minute snap, park what isn't for today in the drawer, and mark holidays and time off.
To-dos / Daily report
At the end of the day the AI reads your to-dos, GitHub activity and local Claude Code or Codex sessions and writes the report. Weekly rolls the dailies up into Notion-ready text.
Concepts
Paste the Q&A and Claude organizes it into a title, a summary and a detail note you can edit before saving. Three confidence dots and a learned state keep the deck down to what you haven't internalized, and the desktop widget cycles the weakest cards between tasks.
Notes / Ask
Select any passage and ask. The answer arrives in a thread beside the text, where you can follow up, and the passage keeps a highlight so the question is one click away later.
Notes / Write with AI
Tell Claude what to cover, add a preset or a reference folder, and let it draft in the background while you keep working. When the draft is ready you review the changes and apply them to the editor; nothing is saved until you press ⌘S.
Notes / Edit a part
Select a sentence or a section and say how it should change. Only that part is rewritten, shown against the original before it goes back into the draft.
ERD / Database
Test the connection and pick the schemas. Amber reads information_schema into a snapshot and draws it top to bottom without AI, with no ERD file to keep in step. One View button picks what each card shows. The password stays in the macOS Keychain, and the next sync tells you what changed.
Diagrams / Mermaid
Mermaid .mmd files on a pan/zoom canvas. Click a table to light up its neighbours, open its columns in a side panel with keys and nullability, and switch between two layout engines.
02 — On the side
When a chat teaches you something worth keeping, paste it and Amber turns it into a flashcard with a detail note. Three confidence dots and a “learned” state keep the deck down to what you haven't internalized yet, and an always-on-top widget cycles the weakest cards between tasks.
Move your pointer over the card · click to flip
session.timeout.msBring overdue to-dos into a past day.
tar.gzExpand >> into a toggle while editing · Paint question highlights at glyph height, skip hidden find hits.
tar.gzFix the ask bar, toggle highlights and selection height · Flag text that runs over a pictogram in the SVG linter.
tar.gzMaintenance release.
tar.gzMaintenance release.
tar.gz04 — Install
gh for reports, a MySQL account for database syncThe first build compiles the Rust side and takes a few minutes. First launch detects the AI CLIs you have signed in. The app doesn't update itself: after a new release, git pull, build again, quit Amber and swap the app. Your data lives outside the app and stays put.