A macOS menu bar app for quickly saving things to Are.na. I built it because I constantly have links and photos floating around in my DMs and Slack. Why open the browser when a system tray feels cooler?
Hit Ctrl+Option+A (customizable), drop a link, paste text, or drag a file and it goes straight to your Are.na channels.
- Menu bar app — lives in your tray, toggled with
Ctrl+Option+Aor a click - Drag & drop file uploads — images, PDFs, videos, etc.
- Link and text blocks — paste a URL or type text to create blocks
- Channel picker — search your channels or browse recents, connect to multiple at once
- OAuth login — authenticates via Are.na's OAuth flow in an embedded webview
Are.na doesn't expose a direct file-upload API endpoint. Instead, uploads go through a 3-step presigned S3 flow. The catch: Are.na's S3 bucket CORS policy only allows *.are.na origins, but a Tauri webview runs on tauri://localhost. The fix: route the S3 PUT through Rust, bypassing the browser's CORS enforcement entirely.
- Tauri 2 — Rust backend, native webview frontend
- React + TypeScript — UI
- Vite — bundler
- reqwest — HTTP client (Rust side, for S3 uploads and OAuth token exchange)
Releases are fully automated via GitHub Actions. Tagging a version triggers a build, sign, and notarize pipeline that creates a GitHub Release with the .dmg and updates update.json so existing users get auto-updated.