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Tansei — A simple shelf for your Mac
Built for work in motion. Designed to stay close.
23 followers
Built for work in motion. Designed to stay close.
23 followers
Switch apps without losing the thread. The color you copied. The line from ChatGPT. The file you’ll need in a minute. Tansei keeps them pinned at the edge of your screen, ready to drag back the moment you need them. Everything stays on your Mac, private by design, no account needed. Try it free for 3 days, then pay once.
love how local and no-account this is, finally. one thing that would honestly make it stick for me is keyboard shortcuts to pin and recall items without reaching for the mouse, like a quick hotkey to grab whatever's currently on the clipboard into the shelf
@zzetbababagm32 Tansei automatically captures anything you copy, so there’s no need to trigger a shortcut first, although you can turn that behaviour off at any time if you prefer. You can also show or hide the Shelf with a customizable keyboard shortcut, or just use the mouse. The idea was to make it fit naturally into however you already work, rather than asking you to change your workflow.
One thing I'd love is a quick keyboard shortcut to pop the shelf open from anywhere, even when it's hidden, so I can grab a clip without losing my mouse position.
@baharzlej Thanks! 😊 You can actually do that today. Tansei has a customizable keyboard shortcut that instantly reveals the Shelf, so you can grab what you need without reaching for the mouse. When you’re done, the same shortcut hides it again. I wanted it to be there exactly when you need it, and invisible the rest of the time.
honestly the pinned-shelf idea looks super handy, but one thing i'd love is a quick keyboard shortcut to call up the shelf and search through pinned items by content, like the actual text from chatgpt or the hex value of a color, instead of just the app it came from
@ayazekicel3pxs Hello Ayaz! That’s actually built in. You can instantly reveal the Shelf with a keyboard shortcut and search across everything you’ve saved, including the actual text inside snippets, prompts, notes, and even colour hex values. The goal was to make finding something just as effortless as saving it in the first place.
Love that it stays tucked at the edge instead of interrupting your flow. Most shelf apps feel like another dock, but the pinned snippet idea (especially grabbing a line of chat output) is genuinely clever.
@volval43730 I wanted the Shelf to stay out of the way most of the time, then be there the moment you need it. It should feel like part of your workflow, not something competing for your attention. I’m really glad that came through.
the way it just lives at the edge of the screen and gets out of the way is honestly so well done, feels like it was thought through by people who actually use macs daily.
@gullu60488 Thank you, that really means a lot. I actually started out planning to build Tansei as a universal app, but changed my mind because I wanted it to feel truly at home on the Mac. I love clean, minimal software, and I wanted the Shelf to feel like it had always belonged there. I’m really glad that came across.