tado

A native macOS menu-bar to-do list & idea board, built with Liquid Glass.

Capture tasks and ideas, check things off, and watch your streak fill in — all from the menu bar, without leaving what you're doing.

Screenshots

Custom page switcher — Tasks ↔ Ideas	Open an idea to edit its text & tags

Features

Tasks

• Quick capture — a New ToDo button expands into a compose card; the field auto-focuses so you can type and hit Return.
• Satisfying check-off — the checkmark fills and the title strikes through in place, then the row glides down into Completed a beat later.
• Drag to reorder — press and drag any active task; a floating glass copy follows your cursor and an accent line shows where it'll land.
• Repeating tasks — set a daily / weekly / monthly cadence with custom-built frequency, date, and reset-time pickers. They reset on schedule and live in their own section.
• Completed shelf — finished tasks collapse into their own card, sorted by when you finished them. Clear them in one tap.
• Live menu-bar count — the number of tasks still to do sits right next to the icon and ticks down as you go.

Activity

• Contribution graph — a GitHub-style grid of squircles tracks the tasks you complete each day, with relative five-shade intensity and accurate month labels.
• Hover & click — dwell on a day for a count tooltip, or click it to open a section listing exactly which tasks you finished that day.

Ideas

• A second page — flip the header from Tasks to Ideas via a custom dropdown (with the page dimmed and blurred behind it).
• Capture anything — an auto-growing, multi-line input expands with every line (up to ten) with no clipping, backed by a native text view.
• Tags — add removable tag chips that wrap in a flow layout.
• Idea detail — tap an idea to open a sub-page that showcases it, where you can edit the text, add/remove tags, copy, or delete. Edits save live.

Throughout

• Persistent — tasks, ideas, and your completion history are all saved locally and survive quits and restarts.
• Menu-bar only — no dock icon, no clutter (LSUIElement), with the panel pinned to grow downward from a fixed top.

Liquid Glass

Every surface — the add field, the list, the empty state — renders with Apple's Liquid Glass (glassEffect) on macOS 26, with an automatic .regularMaterial fallback on earlier systems. The whole UI is native SwiftUI with zero third-party dependencies: SF Symbols, SF Pro Rounded, system materials, and a single accent color (#FF6A1A).

Requirements

• macOS 14.0 or later (Liquid Glass visuals light up on macOS 26+)
• Xcode 26 to build

Build & Run

git clone https://github.com/Entrepenulian/tado.git
cd tado
open LiquidTodo.xcodeproj

Then press ⌘R in Xcode. The checklist icon appears in your menu bar — click it to open tado.

Prefer the command line:

xcodebuild -project LiquidTodo.xcodeproj -scheme LiquidTodo -configuration Release build

How it works

Native SwiftUI with zero third-party dependencies.

File	Responsibility
LiquidTodoApp.swift	App entry point — the MenuBarExtra scene and its baked icon + live count
MenuView.swift	The panel shell: page switcher, custom dropdown, and the Tasks page
Composer.swift	The New ToDo button that expands into the task compose card
RepeatOptions.swift / CustomPickers.swift	Custom frequency selector and hand-built date / time pickers
TodoRow.swift	A single task row with hover, press, and check states
ActivityGraph.swift	The contribution graph, dwell tooltip, and day selection
DayDetailCard.swift	The "tasks completed on this day" section
IdeasView.swift	The Ideas page: composer, tag chips, and idea list
IdeaDetailView.swift	The idea sub-page — edit text/tags, copy, delete
GrowingTextView.swift	Native auto-growing multi-line text input (NSTextView)
FlowLayout.swift	Wrapping layout for tag chips
GlassEffect.swift	The liquidGlass(cornerRadius:) surface modifier
WindowAnchor.swift	Pins the panel's top edge so it only grows downward
TodoStore.swift	State, ordering, recurrence, activity, ideas + persistence
TodoItem.swift / Recurrence.swift / Idea.swift / Page.swift	Models

Privacy

tado stores your tasks, ideas, and completion history locally in UserDefaults on your Mac. Nothing leaves your machine — no accounts, no network, no analytics.

License

MIT