Getting started

Install

1. Download the latest .dmg from the download page.
2. Open it and drag Atlas into your Applications folder.
3. Launch Atlas. It’s signed and notarized, so it opens with a normal double-click — no right-click-to-open, no Gatekeeper warning.

Atlas needs an Apple-silicon Mac (M1 or later). It’s free, and there’s no account to create.

First look

Atlas opens on Home, and Home opens on today — not on a monthly grid you have to interpret. You get today’s date, a progress pill showing how much of the day you’ve cleared, your daily note, the tasks that are actually due (overdue first, then due today) with a quick-add box right there, and today’s lectures and events below.

The sidebar on the left switches between the modules: Subjects, Notes, Calendar, Ingest, Graph, Archive and Plugins.

To add your first task, type it into the quick-add box on Home. To capture one from anywhere — including when Atlas isn’t focused — use the global quick-add hotkey.

Three things worth doing early

• Subscribe to your timetable. In Calendar, paste your university’s TimeEdit iCal feed. It refreshes itself, so your lectures land on the same grid as your own tasks and stay current all term without you copying anything across.
• Point Atlas at a notes folder. Your notes are ordinary .md files in a folder you choose. Nothing is locked in a database — you can open them in any editor, back them up, or walk away with them.
• Press ⌘K. The command palette is the fastest way to reach anything: jump between views, open a note, create a task, start today’s daily note.

Make it yours

• Light or dark theme follows macOS automatically, with a manual override in Settings.
• Choose which view Atlas opens to — Home, Notes, or whatever you last had open.
• Hit a snag or have an idea? Use the Send feedback form in Settings — with an optional diagnostics log, it goes straight to the developer.