Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Aditya, and Tomte is the thing I wanted on my own Windows PC.

Every "dynamic island" app I tried kept a notch on screen all day. Tomte does the opposite: it draws nothing until you push the pointer to the top edge, hit a hotkey, or drag a file up there. Then it opens on Home with your shelf, what's playing, your note and your shortcuts in one view.

What's in it, with no account and no key:

• Shelf for files, text and links you drag in and out of any app

• Media controls for whatever is playing

• Scratchpad with checkboxes (Win+Alt+N)

• Clipboard history that skips anything your password manager marks private

• Search for apps, files and settings (uses Everything if it's running)

• Timers, and it matches your taskbar colours

If you want AI, bring your own key for Anthropic, Gemini or any OpenAI-compatible server, including Ollama on your own PC. Circle part of the screen and ask about it, hold Win+Alt+V to dictate (whisper.cpp, fully local), or drop a file on the pill to summarize it or pull tables out as CSV. Every answer shows which model it went to and what it cost.

No sign-in, no analytics, not even an update check. Your data lives in one file in your user folder, and keys go in Windows Credential Manager.

It's free and MIT licensed, on the Microsoft Store, winget and GitHub. The name comes from the tomte, the little Scandinavian house spirit that quietly looks after things.

I'd love to hear which panel you'd open first, and what you'd want on the shelf that isn't there yet.