Productivity
A fast, minimal Mac scratchpad for working with AI — plain files on disk, git backup, and live reload when your agent rewrites a note.
Parker is a Mac menu-bar editor built for the way people actually work with AI in 2026: long prompts, task lists, quick snippets and throwaway notes that deserve something faster than Notes and lighter than VS Code. Summon it anywhere with a global shortcut, jot, dismiss — it opens in a blink, types with zero lag, and aggressively auto-saves everything. The clever part is the AI loop. Your notes are plain files in a folder you own, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent can already read and write them — no plugin, no API key, nothing to integrate. When your agent rewrites a note, the open tab reloads live and marks exactly which lines changed; if you both touched the note, it asks before overwriting. Draft the prompt here, let the agent answer into the same file, and hand it a task list to watch the checkboxes flip. Optional git backup commits every save, so anything an agent wrote can be rolled back. It's deliberately small: a 7 MB download on Tauri, eleven themes, split panes with live Markdown preview, keyboard-first throughout, no accounts, no telemetry, no servers. The iPhone companion is in testing and reads the same folder, so notes and to-dos travel with you. The backstory is on the site, stated plainly: "Not a commercial product — a passion project, vibe-coded for my own use and shared with the world." Solo developer Manoel Lemos built it for himself — the scratchpad he keeps open while vibe coding — and open-sourced it under MIT. Repository mlemos/parker: 308 commits, 22 releases, v1.5.0 signed and notarized for Apple Silicon. It's the rare dev-tool-as-self-portrait: a vibe-coded tool for vibe coding. Note: This project is curated by the VibeFix editors from public sources. All rights belong to the original creator.
