Tic v0.1.0

The first release of Tic — floating, Stickies-style task lists that live on your macOS desktop. Jot a list, tick things off, drag it wherever you like. No window to hunt for, no app to switch into.

✨ Highlights

• Floating sticky notes — borderless, draggable, resizable panels. Keep one on top or show it on every Space; positions and state restore across launches.
• Subtasks, up to 3 levels — nest with ⇧Tab, drag a row to the right, or hover and click the +. Checking a parent checks all its subtasks, and finishing the last subtask completes the parent.
• Multiline tasks + Markdown — ⇧Return adds a line; style with bold, italic, code, strike, and [links].
• Solid or Liquid-Glass — six colour themes, or a translucent material that shows the desktop through the note.
• Made to be quick — roll a note up to just its title bar, find any list with a Raycast-style search palette, and reach everything from the menu bar and Dock.
• Inline shortcut hints — the useful chords appear as little keycaps right where you're typing, so you don't have to memorise anything.

⌨️ Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Return	Finish a task / add the one you typed
⇧ + Return	New line within the same task
⇧ + Tab	Make a task a subtask
⌃ + ⇧ + Tab	Un-nest a subtask
⌘ + N	New list
Double-click the title bar	Roll the note up / down

You can also drag a task to reorder it — or drag it right to nest it.

📦 Install

1. Download Tic-v0.1.0.dmg below, open it, and drag Tic into Applications. (Prefer a zip? Tic-v0.1.0.zip works too.)
2. Tic is ad-hoc signed (not notarised yet), so Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. Clear the quarantine flag, then open it normally:

   xattr -r com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Tic.app

   (Or right-click Tic.app → Open → Open.)
3. Optional: turn on Launch at Login from the menu-bar menu.

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.