modes & the fan

press and hold “fink.” at the top left. the letters charge for about 0.7 seconds, then three nodes swing out from the end of the word on grooved tethers. keep holding, drag onto one, and release — the app rearranges itself into that mode. a quick click, under 0.2 seconds, still behaves like a click.

• settings — appearance, the orb, voice, and window behavior as a bento of cards. it sits closest to the wordmark because it’s the one you’ll want most often.
• watch — the surveillance grid. it’s shown dimmed and inert until the watcher ships as a full mode, so the fan is the same shape every session.
• apps — launchers for fink.browser and fink.notes, which open as their own windows.

when a mode opens, nothing pops over the app — the wallpaper stays put and the mode’s cards sit directly on it. the wordmark stays where it was and acts as the title: the screen simply reads “fink. settings.” that one decision is most of why the app feels like one continuous surface instead of a program with windows inside it.

answers the assistant fetches — a wikipedia summary, the weather, a download’s progress — arrive as floating widgets that cascade from the corner. two answers of the same kind stack; closing one is your call, not the assistant’s. the hardware monitor is the one exception: it’s a live view of one machine, so repeat requests update it in place. minimized widgets collect on a rail so nothing is ever lost off-screen.

widget titles are lowercase and say what you asked, not just what was fetched — ask for a fun fact about football and the widget is titled “fun fact about football.” the look of all of it follows themes & wallpapers.