Building Meeting Reminder: An ADHD-Focused Menu Bar App for macOS

The problem I lose track of time. Not in a cute “oh wow, 3pm already” way — in a “the meeting started 4 minutes ago and nobody’s in the room but me and confusion” way. Calendar notifications are too quiet. Slack DMs asking “you joining?” are too late. And the moment I’m deep in a document or a terminal, the rest of the world stops existing. I’d been using In Your Face for a while — a brilliant macOS app that throws a full-screen block in front of you before meetings. It’s excellent. But I wanted to tinker, I wanted something free and open source, and I wanted to layer in a few things specific to how my brain misses meetings.