Daily — An AI-powered task management application focused on productivity, minimalism, and convenience.
The idea came from my habit of organizing daily tasks in markdown, like:
## Tuesday, Dec 17
- [x] Deploy to staging
- [ ] Write documentation
- [ ] Plan next sprint
## Monday, Dec 16
- [x] Review pull requests
- [x] Team standup meeting
- [ ] Complete feature implementationI typically maintain my tasks organized by days, which allows me to revisit and track progress later.
This stems from the standard workflow requirement: "What I did yesterday, what I'm doing today" 📊
No bloat. No accounts. No complexity. Just a lightweight, local-first tool to help you stay on track, one day at a time.
- Day-centric workflow 📅 — organize tasks by date, focus on what matters today
- Calendar navigation 📆 — jump to any day, review past work, plan ahead
- AI Agent 🤖 — executes tasks, tracks time, and manages your workflow — not just a chatbot
- Local AI models 🧠 — run the agent fully offline with llama.cpp and Metal GPU acceleration
- iCloud sync ☁️ — optional cross-device synchronization for seamless workflow
- Fuzzy search 🔍 — find any task instantly with intelligent fuzzy matching that handles typos
- Rich task content 📝 — markdown formatting, embedded images, file attachments
- Time tracking ⏱️ — estimate how long tasks will take, track actual time spent
- Quick retrospectives 🔄 — see what you did yesterday, plan what you'll do today
- Smart organization 🏷️ — group tasks by project, priority, or context with tags
- Beautiful themes 🎨 — choose from 9+ UI themes including Glass UI with blur effects
- Local-first 📁 — everything stored locally, works completely offline
See Daily in action with these feature demonstrations:
Daily includes a built-in AI agent — not just a chatbot, but an assistant that executes tasks in your app.
- Execute actions ⚡ — creates, updates, and manages tasks
- Multi-step operations 🔄 — handles complex requests that require multiple actions
- Work with your data 📊 — searches tasks, reads schedules, analyzes your day
- Understand context 🧠 — knows dates, priorities, and your task organization
- Task management ✅ — create, update, complete, discard, or delete tasks
- Search and organize 🔍 — find tasks across dates, move between days, batch operations
- Tag management 🏷️ — create tags, assign to tasks, organize by project or priority
- Time tracking ⏱️ — log time spent, adjust entries, compare estimates vs actual
- Day summaries 📊 — get overview of completion progress, time breakdown, what's left
- Attachments 📎 — view and remove file attachments from tasks
- 💬 "Create a task to review the PR tomorrow at 2pm" → creates and schedules the task
- 💬 "I spent 2 hours on the documentation task" → logs time automatically
- 💬 "Complete all my work tasks for today" → finds and marks all work tasks as done
- 💬 "How's my day going?" → shows day summary with progress and time breakdown
| OpenAI | Local models |
|---|---|
| 🔑 Connect your API key for cloud-based models (e.g., GPT-4, DeepSeek, etc.) | 🏠 Run everything offline with llama.cpp |
| - Access to advanced cloud models - Always up-to-date - No downloads required |
- Metal GPU acceleration on macOS for fast inference - Three curated models: fast, balanced, or quality - No data leaves your machine |
| - Configure API key and model in settings | - Download and manage models directly in the app |
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A translucent interface style with blur effects
Daily stores everything locally on Mac — no accounts, no mandatory cloud dependency, no subscription fees.
Create tasks with everything you need:
- 📝 Markdown formatting — headers, lists, links, code blocks
- 🖼️ Images & Screenshots — paste images directly with
Cmd+Vor drag & drop - ⏱️ Time Tracking — set estimates and track actual time spent
- 🏷️ Tags — organize tasks by project, priority, or context
- 🔒 Private by default - tasks stay on the device unless sync is enabled
- ✅ Always available - work offline anytime, no internet required
- 💰 Zero cost - no required subscriptions or storage fees
- 🛡️ Safe and reliable - automatic conflict prevention and data integrity safeguards to reduce data loss risk
- 💾 Easy backup - simple export for backups or migration
- ☁️ Optional sync - enable iCloud sync when cross-device access is needed
- Voice to task 🎤 — voice recording to task
Note
macOS Only: Daily currently supports only macOS. While Electron supports cross-platform deployment, Windows/Linux builds are not officially supported yet due to limited testing coverage.(or I'm just lazy 🤷♂️).
- 📥 Go to Releases
- ⬇️ Download the
.dmgfile for macOS
Note
The app is currently not signed or notarized:
- macOS will show a Gatekeeper warning. Follow the terminal instructions below to remove quarantine.
This is intentional, as Daily is open-source and not distributed through centralized stores.
You can either:
- 📂 Open the downloaded
.dmg - 🖱️ Drag Daily.app to Applications
- 💻 Run this in terminal:
xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Daily.app
Or ⚡ quick install via terminal:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scheron/Daily/main/scripts/install/install-mac.sh | shWarning
curl | sh executes a remote script directly. Prefer downloading from Releases when possible.
If you use the script, review it first
If installed via terminal script, 🔄 update using:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scheron/Daily/main/scripts/install/update-mac.sh | shOr just ⬇️ download the latest version from the Releases page.
Enjoy using Daily — organize tasks, own the days. ☀️