{"id":12,"date":"2026-04-19T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/installing-the-desktop-app\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:45:00","slug":"installing-the-desktop-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/installing-the-desktop-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing the desktop app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Lattica&#8217;s web app is the same code as the desktop app \u2014 but the desktop app gives you global shortcuts, native notifications, and quick capture from anywhere on your machine.<\/p>\n<h2>Download<\/h2>\n<p>Grab the right build for your platform:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>macOS<\/strong> \u2014 Apple Silicon and Intel universal build, signed and notarized.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Windows<\/strong> \u2014 10 and 11, x64 and ARM64.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Linux<\/strong> \u2014 AppImage, Snap, and .deb for Ubuntu\/Debian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you manage devices through Jamf, Intune, or Munki, the silent-install packages and configuration profiles are documented separately in the IT deployment guide.<\/p>\n<h2>Sign in<\/h2>\n<p>Open the app and click <strong>Sign in with browser<\/strong>. Lattica opens your default browser, logs you in there, and bounces back to the desktop app with a session token. If your workspace requires SSO, the same flow respects it.<\/p>\n<h2>Quick capture<\/h2>\n<p>The single most-used desktop feature. Press the global shortcut and a small input opens above your active window \u2014 type a task, hit return, and Lattica creates it in your default project. Default shortcuts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>macOS<\/strong> \u2014 <code>\u2303 Space<\/code><\/li>\n<li><strong>Windows \/ Linux<\/strong> \u2014 <code>Ctrl + Alt + Space<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can rebind these in <strong>Settings \u2192 Shortcuts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Updates<\/h2>\n<p>The app auto-updates in the background and applies the new version on next launch. To force an immediate update, choose <strong>Lattica \u2192 Check for updates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Notifications<\/h2>\n<p>Native OS notifications are off by default to keep things calm. Turn them on per-project, or per-event-type, in <strong>Settings \u2192 Notifications<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux \u2014 plus quick-capture shortcuts and update behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,16,15,17],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-getting-started","tag-desktop","tag-macos","tag-shortcuts","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}