Chewing Gum

Key Features & Outcomes

Three-state interaction — a resting pill, a fanned deck of shingled tabs, an expanded note — driven by pointer position, not clicks

Tabs shingle like roof tiles, sized to the longest title on the deck, so the whole thing stays to roughly half the screen height

Every deck metric (tab width, lap, chip size) scales off one multiplier, so resizing never drifts the proportions out of sync

Signed, auto-updating releases via Sparkle rather than manual DMG re-downloads

The idea

Sticky notes that don't compete for space with everything else on screen — no window to manage, no dock icon, no clutter. Slide the pointer to the screen edge and the deck of notes fans out; move away and it tucks itself back to a single pill.

The build

Three states, one movement — rest (a coloured pill on the edge), fan (notes shingle out as vertical tabs 45ms apart), expanded (a note slides clear at full size, its tab staying visible behind it as a way back).
Shingled tabs — each tab is full height but only a strip shows below the one before it, like a roof tile, keeping the whole deck to roughly half the screen height instead of running its full length.
One multiplier for everything — deck size, tab width, the lap between tabs, and the resting pill all scale off a single setting, so resizing never breaks the proportions.

Why it matters

Started as a fork of an existing open-source notes app ("Noty"), then diverged enough — a full rebrand, a different interaction model, its own release pipeline — that it stopped being a fork of anything. Knowing when to cut the upstream tie and own the direction outright was the real decision here, not any single feature.