A local-first spatial workspace for notes, data, and files.
Arrange ideas in Tiles, open objects in place, and keep your work in formats you own.

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A workspace that stays yours

Tactile combines the immediacy of a spreadsheet with the depth of a document workspace. A Tile can hold a value, a formula, or a doorway into another object. Open it, work at full size, then return to the exact place you started.

• Local first: no account or cloud service is required for the core experience.
• Portable by design: workspaces use inspectable JSON, CSV, Markdown, and native media files.
• Spatial and nested: organize sheets, documents, and files without flattening their identity.
• Made for real work: formulas, ranges, formatting, themes, keyboard navigation, search, and undo are built in.
• Extensible without bloating the app: optional Code, PDF, Image, Audio, Video, HTML, and SVG objects are independently compiled marketplace packages.
• Web and desktop: run in a browser during development or use the Tauri shell on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

What you can build

Use Tiles as a lightweight model, tracker, dashboard, notebook, or navigation surface. Keep long-form thinking in Text objects, attach local media, run source snippets through the Code plugin, and move through nested work without losing context.

Tactile stores source rather than rendered output. Text remains Markdown, sheets remain sparse CSV-oriented data, and optional plugin state remains portable even when the plugin is unavailable.

Get Tactile

Signed-where-configured installers and checksums for Windows, macOS, and Linux are published on the GitHub Releases page.

• Stable versions use standard vX.Y.Z releases.
• Development previews use clearly marked vX.Y.Z-alpha.N or vX.Y.Z-rc.N prereleases and blue branding.

Developer setup

Prerequisites

• Git
• Node.js 24.13.0 and npm 11.6.2 (.nvmrc and package.json are authoritative)
• A modern browser
• For desktop development: the stable Rust toolchain and the Tauri 2 system prerequisites

Clone and run the web app

git clone https://github.com/aryanxxvii/tactile.git
cd tactile
npm ci
npm run dev

Vite serves the app at http://localhost:5173 by default. The development command also compiles and watches the local marketplace catalog.

Run the desktop app

Windows PowerShell:

pwsh -File src-tauri/scripts/dev.ps1

macOS or Linux:

sh src-tauri/scripts/dev.sh

Native build and platform notes live in src-tauri/README.md.

Validate a change

Start narrow while iterating, then run the relevant broader checks:

npm test
npm run typecheck
npm run lint
npm run build

The full repository gate is:

npm run verify

Native changes should additionally run:

cargo fmt --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --all -- --check
cargo check --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml
cargo test --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml

Repository map

src/             React application, object model, shell, and browser platform
src-tauri/       Tauri/Rust shell, native persistence, packaging, and platform tests
marketplace/     Independently compiled optional object packages and generated catalog
tests/           Unit, compatibility, browser, native, visual, and performance tests
scripts/         Build, marketplace, release, checksum, and inventory automation
config/          Tool configuration that does not require root-level discovery
.agents/         Vendor-neutral project routing, domain knowledge, and decisions
images/          Repository artwork and visual documentation
evidence/        Performance results, SBOMs, and third-party inventory snapshots

Development work targets the protected alpha integration branch. Production-ready changes are promoted to protected main through a release pull request. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a PR; coding agents should begin with AGENTS.md.

License

Tactile is available under the MIT License.