The Pill

What the pill is

The small always-on-top overlay. It shows whether Dimmy is idle, recording, transcribing, or done.

The pill is the visual heart of Dimmy. It is a small overlay that floats above every window on your screen, like a tiny status light. It is the only persistent UI: there is no main window, no dock icon parade, no popup.

The Dimmy pill in its idle state, anchored top-right of the screen

Why it exists

You can see at a glance what Dimmy is doing without alt-tabbing.
It doubles as a click target: left-click toggles recording, right-click opens settings.
It changes shape and colour to reflect every step of the pipeline. No silence, no guessing.

Where it lives

By default the pill sits in the top-right corner. You can drag it anywhere on screen, or pin it to one of the four corners. See Move, resize, hide the pill.