A home for the tools that keep your real work moving.

Workshop is where small, local-first tools live. Right now, that means Slate for the Markdown you keep reopening and Pulse for recurring things that can't quietly disappear because you got busy. Install what helps. Your files, credentials, and private systems stay yours.

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Built for Apple Silicon Macs · No account required.

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Meet Slate and Pulse

Workshop desktop app with Slate and Pulse ready to install — Start with an intentionally empty shelf. Add only what helps.

The thing no one says

Most personal systems fail when they become another thing you have to maintain.

Notes live in one app. Reminders live in another. Then someone suggests a dashboard, and suddenly you're maintaining the system that was supposed to maintain you. Very efficient. Very cursed.

Workshop is the home base

One desktop home. Two focused tools.

Workshop is the host. Slate and Pulse live inside it. Each does one narrow job and leaves the rest of your setup alone.

Workshop is the shelf

It starts empty on purpose. Add the tools you want. The rest stays out of your face.

Slate is the reference desk

Point it at the Markdown files you choose, then quit hunting through folders for the same reference doc.

Pulse runs the follow-up

Give it a recurring reminder and it keeps following up through your private runner until you call it done.

Inside Workshop

Slate is the Workshop tool for the Markdown you keep reopening.

Slate · local reference desk

Stop reopening the same file just to find one thing.

Slate reads only the files you point it at, then gives them a sane place for tables, tabs, and the reference material that somehow keeps ending up in six Finder windows.

Set up Markdown, table, and tabbed views
Star the reference material you actually reach for
It doesn't scan folders, edit source files, or upload content

Workshop / Slate

SLATE · LOCAL REFERENCE DESKSlate

FAVORITES

Project referenceTabbed Markdown reference

ALL DOCUMENTS

Research notesWriting systemOperationsReference library

Inside Workshop

Pulse is the Workshop tool for recurring things you can't let slide.

Pulse reminders dashboard showing a Take out trash reminder and an online runner — One active reminder. Clear next notification. Runner status at a glance.

Pulse editor for the Take out trash reminder, showing its weekly schedule and snooze timing — Adjust the schedule and follow-up behavior without decoding a raw config file.

Pulse · recurring follow-up

For recurring things that can't quietly disappear because you got busy.

Pulse isn't a task manager or a guilt-powered calendar. It runs recurring reminders through a private runner and keeps notifying until you've marked the work done.

See the next occurrence without doing calendar math
Done and Snooze live on your Android notification
Your runner is yours. Credentials stay outside the app webview.

Privacy, because obviously

Your source of truth stays where you put it.

Your local files stay local

Slate reads the Markdown paths you declare. It doesn't scan nearby folders, hunt for fallbacks, copy a repository, or mirror anything to the cloud.

Your credentials stay out of the webview

Pulse uses Workshop's narrow service capability. The credential stays in your operating-system keychain, where it belongs.

No tool gets assumed

A fresh Workshop install is empty on purpose. Add Slate or Pulse when you want them. Remove either without touching the underlying data.

Open source. Still opinionated.

Build the system that gets out of your way.

Workshop, Slate, and Pulse are open source. The GitHub repo has setup guidance and the public-safe source for all three.

Download for macOS

Built for Apple Silicon Macs · No account required.

View Workshop on GitHub