A little macOS floating assistant for Apple Foundation Models

The idea is simple: instead of opening a separate chat app, you can bring up a floating assistant over whatever you’re doing on your Mac by double pressing the shift key to go into chat mode, or triple pressing to go into customs prompts mode.
It can work with:
selected text, clipboard content, URLs, PDFs, EML files, images, .txt, .md, .markdown, .rtf, .rtfd, .csv, .json, .log, .xml, .html, .htm, .yaml, .yml, plus code files like .swift, .py, .js, .ts, .java, .c, .cpp, .m, .mm, .sh
Custom prompts are also available.
Select text and double shift. Drag files into the UI, you can also triple-tap Shift to jump straight into rewrite mode with customs prompts

One reason I made this is that Apple’s newer Private Cloud Compute model is only available to certain developers. I am trying to get access but haven't gotten yet. But non developers are out of luck. But Apple ships on every Mac on MacOs27 the fm cli which can access the models but it is very convoluted with complicated terminal commands. It is a developer tool after-wall.

So this is an easy , private and friendly UI to experiment with Apple Foundation Models through the newfmCLI workflow on macOS.
If/when I get access to the the proper API entitlement I will added to this app, but for non developers this is a good way.

It’s still early, but I put together a small website with screenshots here:
https://aiassistant-macos.vercel.app

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[OS] Ticklet - a tiny Mac app that logs what you're working on - Free

Hi, I'm Thomas. I developed a free little macOS app.

Ticklet tracks window titles and logs them to a CSV so you can look back at what you were working on at a given day or time.

Handy if you fill in timesheets and bounce between a lot of clients or projects.

Built it for myself, figured I'd share in case anyone else finds it useful.

**Problem**: I have to fill out a timesheet, but my day is so scattered with meetings and client work, that it's hard to remember everything I was working on and when.

**Comparison**:

* Timing - Subscription, automatic tracking but feature-heavy and focused on project categorization and billing
* Rize - Subscription, AI-powered and more of a productivity/focus tool than a simple time log
* Toggl - Free tier but requires an account, and is trying to do a lot of things I don't need.

**Price**: Free

**More Details**: [https://www.twistermc.com/52530/ticklet-window-tracker/](https://www.twistermc.com/52530/ticklet-window-tracker/)

**Download**: [https://github.com/TwisterMc/Ticklet](https://github.com/TwisterMc/Ticklet)

Built with AI's help. (Haters gonna hate.)

It's free and it works for me. Little worried about sharing with y'all because I've never released an app before.

K thanks bye.

*Also, I have read the rules many times to ensure I'm following them. Hopefully I interpreted them correctly.*

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