BiTodo is a tiny macOS menu bar todo app for people who want their active tasks to stay visible without opening a full productivity system.

It keeps a compact todo popover in the menu bar, can pin a small task strip near the top of the screen, and saves tasks as a simple local Markdown file.

• Menu bar app with a lightweight SwiftUI popover.
• Add, rename, complete, restore, delete, and reorder tasks.
• Optional always-visible task bar for the active queue.
• Local Markdown storage at ~/Documents/BiTodo/tasks.md.
• Launch-at-login toggle powered by SMAppService.
• No account, sync service, analytics, or network dependency.

• macOS 14.0 or later
• Xcode 16.4 or later
• Swift 6

Open BiTodo.xcodeproj in Xcode and run the BiTodo scheme.

You can also build from the command line:

xcodebuild \
  -project BiTodo.xcodeproj \
  -scheme BiTodo \
  -configuration Release \
  CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO \
  build

The project also includes project.yml for XcodeGen users:

xcodegen generate

BiTodo stores tasks in ~/Documents/BiTodo/tasks.md.

The current format is deliberately simple:

6月3日创建Write the README
6月3日创建Ship the icon（6月3日完成该任务）

BiTodo/
├── BiTodo/                 # Swift source and asset catalog
├── BiTodo.xcodeproj/       # Xcode project
├── docs/images/            # README images
├── project.yml             # XcodeGen project definition
└── README.md

Most todo apps are too large for the smallest kind of work queue. BiTodo is intentionally narrow: keep a few tasks close, finish them, and get back to the work.

BiTodo is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.