JUST ZEN
A launcher. Nothing else.
Just Zen lives in the menu bar. It has no browser, no window and no second inbox: a panel on the edge of your screen, and a finder on ⌥Space.
The panel
A floating strip, above every app and on every Space, holding the handful of places you move between.
Applications, web apps from a library of a hundred, any address you type, a document you are living in this week. Up to forty things, though six is usually the point.
Drag one icon onto another to group them, drag between two to reorder, drag anything onto a group to put it inside, and drag a whole group somewhere else. A group folds behind one icon made of what it holds.
When a favicon does not do a site justice, right-click it and choose a picture of your own — any image file, scaled and kept with the pin.
Drag a spreadsheet onto Excel and it opens there. Drag anything onto anything else and Just Zen opens it with that app.
Drag the grip and the panel goes wherever you want it, on whichever screen. It remembers.
With nothing pinned it stands taller with a glowing ＋, because the only thing to do is add the first thing.
When a new version has downloaded, a ↑ appears on the panel: click it to restart into it. A download in progress shows as ↓, and one that failed as a ! you can click to try again. The menu bar says the same.
No Dock icon, no window, no app switcher entry. It is the menu bar, the panel, and whatever you asked it to open.
⌥Space, the finder
One field over everything the machine can reach, ranked so two letters are usually enough.
Everything in /Applications and your own Applications folder, with its real icon. Enter opens it; if it is running it comes forward.
Spreadsheets, Word files, decks, PDFs, Markdown and text, found through Spotlight — including the ones in Google Drive, OneDrive and Proton Drive. Nothing is indexed twice.
A hundred known apps with their icons, plus any address you type: Just Zen reads the page's own title and favicon and keeps it as yours.
The tabs already open in Safari or Chrome, by title. Choose one and it comes to the front, in whichever profile it belongs to.
Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and Slack open through their own links, so you arrive in the conversation rather than beside it.
Anything the finder can reach can go on the panel without leaving the keyboard.
Your browser stays your browser
Just Zen does not render web pages. It opens them where you already keep your logins.
Going to a web app looks for a tab that already has that site open — in Safari or Chrome, whichever this Mac opens links with — and switches to it rather than opening another. macOS asks once whether Just Zen may control that browser; say no and it simply opens new tabs.
All of them keep working, because they are your browser's, not ours. A work profile and a personal one stay exactly as they are.
Keyboard
Try it for a week.
Pin six things. Press ⌥Space for the rest.
On Windows the panel and the finder reach your installed programs and your documents; reusing an open browser tab is macOS-only for now.