Observed arrival · 2026-09-17
Kiwi Focus, the tiny desk buddy with no skip button
An open-source Windows focus companion that manages to-dos, reminders, voice commands, calendars, and distraction blocking from the desktop and Chrome.
Field notes
Kiwi combines an Electron desktop app with a Chrome extension, keeping tasks synchronized while applying focus rules to named apps and websites. Its examples include calendar queries, natural-language reminders, grocery-list capture, and a hard-to-ignore full-screen nudge. The project identifies TypeScript, React, Chrome MV3, and on-device Whisper in its build stack, and says speech recognition stays on the PC. The Windows 10/11 download is labeled as forthcoming, while the source and build path are already described.
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