The body
Omarchy
The window manager, the desktop, 428 self-describing commands, reversible system changes — and the ears. Left untouched, so every update still arrives.
offline · built on Omarchy
Not an assistant bolted onto a desktop — the desktop is the assistant. It knows what you are working on, it holds the thread while you cannot, and anything it changes it can put straight back. It listens without the network, and your files never leave the machine.
Running on a 2018 MacBook that Apple stopped supporting. The parts that run all day never needed a model, so it keeps working with the antenna off.
What it feels like
Speech recognition runs on the machine itself. Milo answers like a person — never a command name, never a file path. And every change it makes is written down with its opposite, so undo is a sentence, not a procedure.
"Get that weather thing off my bar."
"Done — the weather is off the bar."
not omarchy-plugin-disable omarchy.weather
"Actually, put it back."
"It's back where it was."
How it is put together
The window manager, the desktop, 428 self-describing commands, reversible system changes — and the ears. Left untouched, so every update still arrives.
Takes over the workspace system. Owns what the machine knows, the plan, what may happen without asking, and the record of everything that happened.
Who you talk to. Turns machine language into human language and holds the one-thing-at-a-time discipline.
On the subscription you already have, when you ask for it. Never a background service spending on your behalf.
Where it stands, honestly
This project's worst habit is a claim without proof, so the line is drawn plainly. Everything marked working was verified on the machine.
| Piece | State | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| The loop — speak, act, undo | Working | A spoken request disabled a real bar widget; "undo" restored it. Confirmed by the system, not inferred. |
| Local speech, in and out | Working | Voxtype hears; Piper speaks. Both on the machine, no network — proven by synthesizing a phrase and transcribing it back. |
| The record of your day | Working | Every workspace and window change captured at 0.0% idle cost, shown in plain words. |
| Reversibility | Working | Snapshots in the boot menu, plus offline's own backup-before-touch and one-word rollback. |
| Workspaces as contexts | Building | A workspace becomes a name, a goal, its files, its timer and its slice of the map. |
| The map of the whole machine | Building | Files, apps, processes, projects and goals as one picture; weighed by knowledge, not file count. |
| The timeline and the dial | Building | One task at a time, a depleting disc, a day that reflows when it slips — never a scoreboard. |
The point
Not a faster machine, not a chatbot in the corner. A computer where the effort of organising, remembering and choosing is carried by the machine — so the part only you can do is the part you spend your attention on.
It runs on hardware its manufacturer abandoned. It works with the antenna off. And every single thing it does to itself can be undone.
Every figure here was measured on the machine, not estimated. Items marked building do not exist in full yet and are not described here as though they do.