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Personal OS

A Windows 11 home surface for one person's day: the hour, the weather, what's due, what arrived, and how the machine is doing. Truthful about what it cannot see yet.

The Living Horizon home surface: a scene that follows the hour, a clock, a day rail, a two-part deck, readiness chips and a dock A window wireframe. Across the top, a scenic band with an arc marking where the sun is in the day and a large clock beside it. Below, a rail of the day's hours. Then a deck with two panels side by side, the dayline and the attention list. Along the foot, a row of small chips naming each source with the word disconnected, and a compact dock. a scene that follows the hour: dawn, day, dusk, night the day rail Dayline what's on Attention what wants a reply calendar · off mail · off weather · off sleep · off machine · on dock · Alt+1 to 5 every chip says exactly what it can see. a source that is missing, failed or unavailable is never drawn as ready.
The Living Horizon, as approved and built. The browser mockups were preview only; the native surface is the product, and it has drifted from the preview once already and been rebuilt to match.

What it does

The home screen is a scene that changes with the hour: dawn, day, dusk and night each get their own light. On it sit a large clock, a rail of the day's hours, and a deck of two things worth looking at: the dayline, which is what's on, and the attention list, which is what wants a reply. Along the foot, small readiness chips say which sources are connected and which are not, and a compact dock launches the rest.

Where it's going: a second desktop. An in-app taskbar that gathers every AI tool on the machine into one surface, with the existing desk shell of wallpaper canvas and draggable panels as the base.

How it's built

The stack
.NET 10 and WinUI 3, self-contained and unpackaged, local-first. No account, no cloud, launches without elevation.
Truth as a build rule
A source that is missing, unavailable or failed renders as exactly that, never as ready. Two review passes over the core exist only to enforce it: one so missing data is never presented as ready, one so a failed diagnostic surfaces as unavailable instead of as a claim.
Sources
Calendar and mail connectors are written and read-only, waiting on consent before they connect. Weather starts keyless. System diagnostics, meaning CPU, memory, disk, uptime and network, need no special rights. A sleep-ring integration is planned.
Navigation
Alt+1 through Alt+5 move between the five surfaces. The dock does the same with a pointer.
The mockups
Browser previews are preview only. The native surface is the product, and when it drifted from the approved preview it was rebuilt to the approved hierarchy rather than the preview being bent to fit.

Where it stands

Under construction. The Living Horizon surface builds and passes its release test suite, and every external source is still disconnected and says so on screen. Only the dark theme has been seen live. A launch crash in a published build was reported and is not yet confirmed fixed, so "it runs" is not a claim this page makes.

Not public. One machine, one person, and nothing connected that could tell you anything about them.