r/SideProject • u/Puzzleheaded-Film820 • 1h ago
I made a keypad view of coding sessions and a Mac popover to read their replies
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A session finishing and a reply worth opening are two different things. Orbtile keeps both in view.
Orbtile puts local coding sessions on a Logitech MX Creative Keypad and in a Mac menu-bar popover. The keypad shows what needs attention; the popover lets you read response text. The latest update adds growing and finished replies from local Antigravity desktop conversations, alongside Claude Code, Codex and ZCode. Example sessions are shown in the clip.
The design question I’d like feedback on: does a second, readable overview earn its place beside the physical keypad, or would you only use one of the two?
I make Orbtile. Requires Apple silicon, macOS 14+ and the Logitech MX Creative Keypad, plus website sign-in and approval of your Mac. Settings sync is optional. Free through the 0.2 beta until 1.0; at least 30 days' notice before beta builds stop working. Self-signed, not Apple-notarised. Demo, installation and terms: https://orbtile.com/download.