ARCWorks Calendar Widget is a lightweight, frameless desktop gadget designed for Windows. Featuring an ultra-clean glassmorphic UI with dynamic acrylic backdrop blur, it sits gracefully on your desktop to provide immediate date awareness, quick-jump month/year navigation, and date-based note taking without cluttering your workflow.
- 🪟 Glassmorphism Aesthetic: Frameless, translucent dark acrylic design with real-time backdrop blur and smooth rounded corners.
- 📅 Interactive Month Grid: 42-cell calendar grid with seamless date math, day-of-week headers, and month-spanning day displays.
- 📝 Per-Date Note Taking: Click any date to open an inline note dialog. Save thoughts, reminders, or agendas (up to 5,000 characters per note).
- 🎨 Visual Highlighting Channels:
- Today: Distinct electric blue outline and ambient glow.
- Active Notes: Warm amber tint on dates with saved notes.
- Weekends: Soft coral red accent for Saturday and Sunday.
- Adjacent Months: Low-opacity numbers for preceding and succeeding month days.
- 🔍 Dynamic Window Scaling: Quick size presets (70%, 80%, 100%, 150%) with intelligent screen-boundary clamping.
- 📌 Always on Top & Position Memory: Toggle window pinning on or off. The widget automatically remembers its exact desktop placement across reboots.
- ⚡ System Tray Integration: Stays discreetly alive in the Windows system tray with a context menu to Show, Hide, or Quit.
- ⌨️ Keyboard Friendly:
- Ctrl + S — Quick-save note in the editor.
- Esc — Close note editor, picker popovers, or settings panel.
- Ctrl + Shift + 0 — Emergency scale reset to 100%.
Download the latest version from the Releases page:
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
ARCWorks Calendar Widget Setup 1.0.0.exe |
Standard Windows NSIS installer with desktop & start menu shortcuts. |
ARCWorks Calendar Widget 1.0.0.exe |
Standalone portable executable. No installation required. |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + S | Save the currently active note |
| Esc | Dismiss note editor / close open panels |
| Ctrl + Shift + 0 | Emergency reset widget scale to 100% |
git clone https://github.com/ARCWorksPH/ARCWorks-Calendar-Widget.git
cd ARCWorks-Calendar-Widgetnpm installnpm startTo package both the NSIS installer and the standalone portable binary for Windows:
npm run buildPackaged binaries will be generated in the dist/ directory.
ARCWorks-Calendar-Widget/
├── assets/ # Application icons, logos, and graphic assets
│ ├── icon.ico # Windows executable & tray icon
│ └── logo.png # ARCWorks branding logo
├── data/ # Local data placeholder (.gitkeep)
├── docs/ # Documentation assets & screenshots
├── holidays/ # Holiday dataset directory (.gitkeep)
├── notes/ # Architecture notes and roadmap specs
├── index.html # Main interface DOM structure & dialogs
├── main.js # Electron main process (window, tray, IPC, persistence)
├── preload.js # ContextBridge security bridge
├── renderer.js # UI state management & date logic
├── style.css # Glassmorphism styling, layout & animations
├── package.json # NPM scripts, dependencies & electron-builder config
├── CHANGELOG.md # Version release notes
├── CONTRIBUTING.md # Guidelines for issues and contributions
└── LICENSE # MIT License
Personal notes and user preferences are automatically saved in the user's local AppData directory:
- Notes:
%APPDATA%\arcworks-calendar-widget\notes.json - Settings:
%APPDATA%\arcworks-calendar-widget\settings.json
(User data is kept completely local and is never tracked by git).
Contributions, feature suggestions, and bug reports are welcome! Please check out CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to get started.
This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.
Developed with ❤️ by ARCWorks.