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Taskwright

An offline, local-first office suite — your own alternative to a Microsoft 365 subscription.

Desktop app Early build

What it does

Opens, edits, and saves ordinary Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files, so you can trade documents with anyone on Office without a subscription. Everything stays on your machine — no cloud account, works with no internet. Autosave, crash recovery, rolling backups, and version history mean a file never silently breaks.

The modules

Starting it

From the repo
npm run dev
Installed build
npm start

Why it runs here, not on the web

It reads and writes real files on your disk, so it runs as a desktop app rather than in a browser tab. A web edition would mean rebuilding how it touches the file system.

Source

JarridDavis/taskwright