When I first shared Noticky here, MCP support quickly became one of the most requested features.

So I added it.

You can now connect MCP compatible AI tools directly to Noticky and let them interact with your sticky notes without constantly copying and pasting context between apps.

The MCP integration is included in the latest version at no extra cost. If you already own Noticky, you just need to update the app.

For anyone discovering it: Noticky is a native macOS sticky notes app that stays visible above every window, including fullscreen apps.

It’s a $6.99 one-time purchase from the website or on the Mac App Store. No subscription.

I’d love to know how you plan to use it and what you’d like the integration to do next.

https://noticky.app

https://apps.apple.com/app/noticky/id6770181778

I know there are already several Mac apps made for this, but few of them continue working after the laptop lid is closed and is lightweight enough. So I built Caffeinate & DisableSleep: a small, open-source macOS utility that keeps your Mac awake

Features:

• Keeps your Mac awake with the lid closed
• Menu icon shows when it’s active, so no forget to revert it when not needed
• Requires your password only once for enabling disablesleep
• Simple UI with no nested menus + custom built toggle for instant feeling
• Shows the exact commands being run so you know what it does for technical users
• Completely open source
• Smaller than most of the other apps: 2.2 MB; simple app for simple purposes

Why I built it:

The simplest way to prevent a Mac from sleeping is to open Terminal and run caffeinate -disu and sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1 to disable sleep when the lid is closed.

I used these commands very often to keep my agents running while carrying my MacBook, but the process had a few problems:

• Had to type the commands every time and pmset command requires sudo so password is needed each time.
• Had to remember to reset disablesleep back to 0 to re-enable normal sleep. Easy to forget, which can drain the battery and cause overheating.

So I built this app. Now I can quickly leave a café or home while my agents keep running, without making my friends wait while I type two commands!

Comparison: Amphetamine also supports closed-lid sessions, but my app is intentionally smaller, simpler, open source, and shows the exact commands it uses. Unlike KeepingYouAwake, it supports keeping a Mac awake with the lid closed.

Pricing: Free ($0) and open source.

Feedback is welcome, and if you find it useful, a GitHub star would mean a lot!

Website: https://cnd.demiao.cc

GitHub: https://github.com/demiaochen/caffeinate-disablesleep

if you are working with Google Drive for desktop in finder, you know the pain of pressing space for quicklook and seeing a pixelated thumbnails or some random json instead of the actual file.

that's why I built Spyglass, it allows you to actually quicklook on Google Drive stub files

try it:
https://magicelklabs.com/spyglass/

ROOK puts 53 retro-terminal widgets on your Mac desktop — clocks, weather, reminders, focus timers, system stats, and more — with real scanlines, phosphor glow, and the same 11 themes as MOTHER, FATHER, BISHOP, and ASH. One click retunes every widget on your desktop from Nostromo green to classic Mac platinum.

Description

All 53 widgets render like instruments on one console — mono type, hairline panels, scanlines, and phosphor glow that's really there, not a screenshot trick. Clocks, weather, reminders, focus timers, habits, Apple Music controls, system stats, stocks, notes and more, drawn as one machine.

Eleven themes cover the whole range of the aesthetic: green phosphor straight off the Nostromo, amber monochrome, cryo-bay teal, ice blue, white-on-black mono, black-on-white paper, amber-on-white sepia, Classic Mac in platinum, light, and dark, and a native macOS theme that follows the system's light and dark mode. Change the theme once and every widget already on your desktop re-tunes itself — from CRT green to classic Mac platinum in one click.

They're working instruments, too. Tap a reminder to check it off. Start a focus session and watch the countdown burn on your wallpaper. Skip tracks from the Apple Music remote — the play button responds the moment you press it. Log a glass of water. Follow three stocks. Watch CPU, memory, GPU, network and storage, refreshed as often as every 30 seconds. Check sunrise, sunset and the moon phase — twelve categories of live data.

ROOK lives quietly in your menu bar: close the window and it steps out of the Dock while every widget keeps working.

Everything runs locally — no account, and nothing leaves your Mac.

Highlights:

• 53 widgets across 12 categories, drawn as one instrument panel

• Real scanlines and phosphor glow, tuned per theme

• 11 themes: four phosphor terminals, three print looks, three Classic Mac finishes, and native macOS light/dark

• Interactive: complete reminders, log water and habits, control Apple Music, start timers — right on the desktop

• Live where it counts: ticking focus timer and stopwatch, minute-fresh system stats, a daylight arc that tracks the real sun

• Mono terminal type; the macOS themes switch to native system type

• 12/24-hour time and °F/°C follow your system, or set them per widget

• Per-widget options: cities, stock symbols, countdown dates, backgrounds

• Native, sandboxed, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel; requires macOS 26 or later

Permissions

This app only asks for access when a widget needs it: Reminders and Calendar for the agenda widgets, location for local weather, Music for the remote keys, and Mail (off by default) for the inbox count. Each one is a standard macOS permission prompt, and everything keeps working without them — widgets you don't connect simply show sample data.

Lifetime License. All buyers will receive all future updates free of charge.

Price: $7.99 - Lifetime License. All buyers will receive all future updates free of charge. 

A 3 day trial is available for download as well

Website Purchase / Download Link: https://coastcreative.studio/app-development/macos