daybound

A notebook, close at hand

A day.
A page.
A little peace.

A little structure for the things you want to do. A little room for the things you want to say.

See the day unfold Try the editor ↗

Made for Mac & iPhone · Yours in plain text

daybound's actual Mac notebook and Day view, native iPhone app, and SwiftUI widget layout preview with fictional notes
One day. One file.

Less managing your life.
More living your day.

YYYY-MM-DD.md

01 / At your desk

A page that
gets out of
your way.

Open the menubar. Write the thought. Return to your day. Tasks, time blocks, and your journal share one quietly editable page.

  1. Write directly on the page.Markdown reveals itself on the line you’re editing. Move away and the page settles back into place.
  2. Give the day a shape.Drag, move, and resize time blocks. Every change becomes a line in the same Markdown file.
  3. Keep the thread.Carry unfinished tasks forward, start a timestamped journal entry, and leave a word about your mood.
Actual Rust-rendered badge showing 45 minutesBuild something useful

Native badge renderer · Sample countdown · Keeps ticking with the panel closed.

Put the real editor through its paces ↗
The notebook
daybound's actual Mac React notebook with tasks and a journal entry

Actual app components. Fictional notes. The recording uses an isolated browser preview of the Mac UI.

Actual daybound calendar with fictional daily notes and mood dots for September 2026
2026-09-14.md2026-09-29.md2026-09-30.md

A month of little moments

Every day.
A page of its own.

Pick a date and return to that day’s note. A dot marks a page you’ve written; its color holds a little memory of your mood.

Today has room for the next thought. Yesterday stays exactly where you left it.

Pick a date to open its page ↗

Actual calendar component, with fictional notes and mood data.

02 / Away from your desk

Same day.
A little closer.

A thought on the train. A task before coffee. Your iPhone opens the same daily files, with a native interface made for the small moments.

And a Home Screen widget keeps Today, Later, and a glimpse of your journal within reach.

Explore the iPhone companion ↗
Real iPhone Simulator capture of daybound, with fictional tasks, journal, and mood
Native SwiftUI app
Real SwiftUI rendering of daybound's large widget layout with Today, Later, journal, and mood
Native widget layout preview

The widget uses a snapshot refreshed by the iPhone app. Mac edits appear after the phone reloads the file.

03 / Always yours

A lovely little app.
An ordinary little file.

Close the app and the day is still there. Open it in another editor. Put it in your own folder. Keep it for years.

2026-09-30.md

A little space for today

TODAY

☑ Sketch the first idea

○ Make the small version work

PLAN

9:00 – 10:30   Design the next chapter

JOURNAL

10:45 AM — A little less noise. A little more focus. #making

mood: 4 — A good start

An illustration of the format, not another app screen. One document behind every view.

No separate database. Just daily Markdown files and a goals page in folders you choose.

Your folder, your sync. Choose an iCloud Drive folder on both devices. Permissions are granted separately; iCloud controls delivery timing.

04 / Your kind of quiet

Same notebook.
Different mood.

Five themes, each with light and dark appearances. Every calendar, checkbox, and journal card takes its cues from the same palette.

Warm paper. Iowan Old Style. Room to breathe.

Actual Mac notebook components in the Paper theme
Actual production theme styles, with the same fictional note.

05 / A little hands-on

Don’t just look.
Leave a thought.

This demo runs the real Mac editor and Day view. Check a task, write a line, or move a block. It uses fictional data held in memory; refreshing resets it.

06 / Thoughtful underneath, too

Small app.
Careful decisions.

Three surfaces, one editable text format. The interesting work is keeping them in agreement.

01

One grammar.
Both platforms.

Mac imports the TypeScript document engine. iPhone runs its bundled version through JavaScriptCore. Parsing and document rewrites share the same rules.

Read the document engine ↗
02

A clock outside
the webview.

A Rust thread keeps the menubar countdown ticking while the panel is hidden. Its colored badge is drawn as a crisp retina bitmap.

Follow the native readout ↗
03

Native where
it matters.

SwiftUI for the phone. WidgetKit for the glance. The widget reads a derived snapshot; the Markdown folder remains the source of truth.

Explore the native companion ↗

A personal project by Dhiraj

Make a little
room for today.

The source opens soon. For now, try the notebook above.

Run it locally. Choose a notebook folder. Start with one small thing.

git clone https://github.com/dhirajcdry/daybound.git
cd daybound
npm ci
npm run tauri dev

Mac requires macOS, Node/npm, Rust, and Xcode Command Line Tools. iPhone build guide ↗

Explore the source ↗

Built on Daily by hellorashid. daybound is Dhiraj’s independent evolution of that menubar notebook, with planning, journaling, shared document rules, and native iPhone and widget experiences.

Under active development. No daybound release pipeline or App Store distribution is configured. Upstream licensing and the inherited updater need resolving before distribution. Publication status ↗