Digital tools for the spaces in between.
Liminal HQ is an independent studio building local-first software for calm, durable personal computing. We focus on tools that help people stay oriented across time, information, and everyday systems while keeping ownership with the person using them.
- Time tools
- Threshold — flexible time-window alarms for life-first scheduling.
- Knowledge tools
- Liminal Notes — local-first, Markdown-based notes.
- Coherence Chat Exporter — archive AI conversations into portable Markdown.
- System tools
- SMDU — terminal disk usage analyser.
- Desktop tools
- Emoji Nook — native Linux emoji picker that blends with your desktop.
- Media tools
- Spindle — desktop optical-disc authoring studio.
- Developer tools
- Flow — terminal-native working memory for developers.
- Platform and infrastructure
- Tauri Plugins Workspace — shared Tauri v2 plugin ecosystem.
- Skills — reusable multi-agent workflow skills.
- Local first: cloud is optional, not foundational.
- User sovereignty: open formats and portable data.
- Calm computing: reduce cognitive noise instead of increasing it.
- Craftsmanship: optimise for durability and maintainability over novelty churn.
- Studio site: liminalhq.ca
- Threshold: threshold.liminalhq.ca
- SMDU: smdu.liminalhq.ca
- The Lab: liminalhq.ca/the-lab
Shared CI and cross-repo automation live in .github, including org-level image pipelines and reusable workflow tooling.