The Desktop Companion is a Windows tray app that watches which apps and windows you're in, so the hours you spend outside the browser stop reading as idle. It also runs Desk View, a standing Context View window for a second monitor.
Grab the Windows installer from the showcase site's Get the Desktop Companion panel, run it, and click through the SmartScreen warning above.
Tabby Desk lives in the Windows system tray once it's running — everything else here happens from that tray menu.
Tray → 🔗 Pair Extension (copy token) copies a token; paste it into the browser extension's Settings → 🖥️ Desktop Activity → Companion Pairing → Save & Pair.
Full walkthrough: Pairing devices.Tray → 🕐 Clock In starts your shift from the desktop — the same shift the extension and Sidecar see, on the same clock.
Tray → 🖥 Desk View opens a standing Context View window; toggle 📌 Desk View Always on Top to keep it pinned above other windows. It's the closest thing this family has to a screensaver — leave it running on a second monitor.
Tray → ✅ Start on Login is on by default; toggle it off there if you'd rather launch Tabby Desk manually.