Guided tour · 7 screens

See how Squirrel actually works.

A screen-by-screen walk through a normal day with Squirrel — from the menu-bar tray you live in, to capturing the scatter, focusing, and seeing what matters now. No accounts, no cloud; just your laptop and a plain Markdown vault.

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  1. Squirrel's macOS menu-bar dropdown: Open Squirrel, Add Quick Task, Add Post-it, what's pressing now, quick tasks, notifications, Open Web UI and Obsidian Vault.
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    Lives in your menu bar

    Everything is one click from the macOS menu bar — add a quick task, pin a post-it, glance at what's pressing now, or jump straight into the web UI or your Obsidian vault. There's no window to hunt for and no focus to break.

  2. A compact Squirrel popup showing the Quick Tasks list (1 of 5) with a 'reply email' task and done, snooze and dismiss buttons.
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    Capture the scatter as quick tasks

    A stray "reply email" lands in a short quick-task list — no project, no ceremony. Tick it done, snooze it for later, or dismiss it. The noise leaves your head and stops circling.

  3. Squirrel's compact 'today' popup with the current date (Wed, Jun 17) and the active quick tasks.
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    A compact "today" you can trust

    The popup always shows the date and the tasks in front of you right now, so re-entry after a distraction takes seconds, not minutes — you never have to reconstruct where you were.

  4. Squirrel's Focus Timer with a large countdown dial, three dial styles, and durations from 5 to 60 minutes.
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    Drop into a focus timer

    Pick a length from 5 to 60 minutes and the dial you like — classic, hybrid, or minimal ring — then start. A visual countdown puts a gentle boundary around deep work without feeling like a stopwatch breathing down your neck.

  5. Squirrel's home popup: today's focus, pick today's or this week's focus, pressing items, a scratch-pad note, quick tasks, and a 'due today or tomorrow' nudge.
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    Your home screen — today's focus and what's pressing

    Set today's or this week's focus, see pressing items and your scratch-pad in one place, and get a quiet nudge when something's due today or tomorrow. One glance answers "what should I be doing?"

  6. Squirrel's web UI board titled 'What matters now', with today's focus and this week pinned on top and columns for Ideas/Backlog, Ready, To-do, In-progress and Done.
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    See the whole board

    When you want the bigger picture, the web UI lays your work out as a board — Ideas, Ready, To-do, In-progress, Done — with today's focus and this week pinned to the top so the trail never disappears under the backlog.

  7. Squirrel's priority-lane view of 'What matters now', with columns for Pressing now, This week, This month and Later.
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    What matters now, by horizon

    Priority lanes — Pressing now, This week, This month, Later — turn a scattered backlog into a single trail you can follow from the top down, so you spend attention on what's next instead of on deciding what's next.

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