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Desk95

A complete workspace. A familiar point of view.

The idea

A useful job.
A fitting screen.

Documents, project context and tasks should live close together. Desk95 connects them in one local workspace with a deliberate Windows 95 interface.

My contribution

I built Desk95 as an independent local-first application and packaged it in a native macOS shell. Its public release includes source, a signed and notarized Mac package and a documented recovery model.

Inside the project

  • Rich-text pages, attachments and linked tasks.
  • Project boards, list views, search and saved views.
  • Workspace ZIP export, revisions and explicit save-recovery paths.

Public browser source and signed, notarized macOS release. Apple Silicon runtime was tested; physical Intel and macOS 14 qualification remain separate. The capture shows the bundled example workspace, not customer data.

An independent project by Kian Konrad Tajbakhsh. Original code is MIT licensed; W95FA by Alina Sava is credited under SIL OFL 1.1. Not affiliated with Microsoft.

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