A precise tour of every surface.
Exactly what each part of Nudgebar does, annotated — plus the shortcuts, sounds, and limits the home page glosses over.
In the menu bar, all day
Live countdown
A ticking time-to-next-meeting sits in the bar — no dock icon, no window. Glance up, that's it.
Click for the full day
One click opens the popover: the next events as cards, the rest on a quiet timeline.
The loud state, decoded
Quarterly Review
Your lead time
Fires 1 to 60 minutes before — set globally or per calendar.
Countdown ring
A live ring shows seconds to start, so the urgency is unmistakable.
One-click Join
Detects the video link and joins in one tap — Zoom, Meet, Teams.
Snooze, dismiss, or merge
Snooze 1, 5, or 10 minutes. Concurrent meetings merge into a single block instead of stacking pop-ups.
The whole day, one click away
Act on the next one
The imminent meeting is a card with a Join button — no digging through Calendar.
Color-coded by calendar
Work, personal, and shared calendars each keep their color across the day's timeline.
Today and tomorrow
A running count and a quiet timeline; quiet hours fold away so you only see what's real.
Set once. The details.
Everything is adjustable and keyboard-driven, and the alert you asked for works through Do Not Disturb.
| ⌃⌥J | Join the current meeting |
| ⌃⌥S | Snooze 5 minutes |
| ⌃⌥D | Dismiss the alert |
| ⌃⌥N | Open the day popover |
| Esc | Close the full-screen alert |
The meeting alert still gets through Focus and DND.
Opens quietly when you sign in. No account, ever.
Private by design
Your calendar data stays on your Mac. Nudgebar reads events locally to show and alert you — nothing is routed through a server, and there's no account.