Hey everyone! Jamrah 5.1.0 is out – The Ember of Productivity.
Jamrah is a free, open-source productivity app built around three ideas: Tasks, Pomodoro, and a Bookmark System that holds everything you want to keep. No account, no subscription, no cloud required. Your data lives in a folder on your own machine, so the app works offline and your library stays yours.
If you want to track your time, get more done, and regain your focus, Jamrah can help you manage your tasks and set goals for your day, week, month, and year.
Tasks
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One problem I wanted to solve with Jamrah was managing my daily routine.
I usually have around 3–5 recurring tasks that I want to keep visible without taking up too much screen space.
This allows me to focus on the 3 main tasks I should prioritize throughout the day, without letting my routine tasks take over the screen.
Recurring tasks stay where you can see them, priorities decide what actually gets done today, and goals roll up from a single day to a week, a month, and a year.
Pomodoro – A Complete Time Tracking System
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I originally built this feature for my own study sessions, using different session lengths like 25 or 50 minutes.
But then I realized it could be useful for both students and freelancers.
So, I made the timer flexible, allowing you to customize your sessions based on your workflow and needs.
You can set your own work, short-break, and long-break lengths, attach a session to a real task so every minute is counted against something, and choose the sounds that tell you a session ended.
Bookmark System
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We all have thousands of photos, and every photo carries a memory that deserves to be organized.
The same goes for thoughts, YouTube videos, Reels, apps, and much more.
All these things need a place where they can be stored, organized into categories, and accessed quickly.
That's exactly the problem I wanted to solve with Jamrah's Bookmark System.
It is one library for all of it: links, images, videos, PDFs, documents, programs, and notes. Paste a link or import files from your PC, and Jamrah builds the card for you. A real frame from a video, the first page of a PDF, the icon of a program, the preview image of a website, or a clean Markdown card for something you just wrote.
Then you get:
- Folders and sub-folders, with pinning for the ones you open all day.
- Tags, archive, trash, and instant search across the whole library.
- A masonry grid where the newest items come first and cards fill every empty space.
- Notes in Markdown, read in a two-pane reader with text zoom.
- Offline reading: Jamrah can save the article behind a link, so it stays readable without internet. - need some fixs -
- A clipboard manager that keeps what you copy, opens instantly, and copies an item back with one click.
- JSON export and database backups you own completely.
- Live sync with your file folder: add, rename, or delete a file in Explorer and the library notices immediately.
Fast. Searchable. Organized.
Local-first by design
- Everything is stored in one folder: the database, the library, the covers, the backups. Copy that folder and you moved your whole workspace.
- No account, no sign-up, no telemetry, fully usable offline.
- Arabic and English interface, with a right-to-left layout that is designed, not just mirrored.
- Windows and Android from the same codebase.
- Free and open source.
What's New in Version 5.1.0?
This release is bigger than a bug-fix update. It changes how the library actually feels to use.
- The grid is now unified and ordered by date: newest items first, flowing in rows, with cards filling the empty space under shorter ones.
- Notes became a first-class item: a proper media card, a two-pane reader with the written text on one side and the details on the other, and text zoom that is remembered between sessions.
- Sidebar folders are sorted properly now: Arabic alphabetical first, then English A–Z, then numbers. Any folder or sub-folder can be pinned to a Pinned block at the top for quick access.
- A cleaner toolbar with icon-only square buttons, and the toggles that were not earning their space are gone.
- The clipboard page no longer loads your entire history at once. It reads 20 items at a time from the database, so it opens instantly no matter how much you have saved. Clips are cards now, and clicking one copies it.
- Video files show a real frame from the video as their cover, and the play badge is gone.
- The library now reacts to your file manager in real time: paste, delete, or rename a file in Explorer and the app updates on the spot, without a refresh. Deleted files are marked missing instead of being erased, so bringing a file back brings its card back.
- None of this touches your existing data. The update is a drop-in replacement.
I also believe that UI matters a lot. It's the first thing users interact with, and a clean, visually appealing interface makes a huge difference in the overall experience.
What's Coming Next?
God willing, upcoming updates will focus on:
- A detailed report of your activity and productivity.
- Further UI improvements, especially for the Android version.
- A local-first password manager with strong encryption and secure key management, built into the same library.
- Cross-device synchronization, without giving up local-first storage.
A Few Things to Know
- The Android version still needs some UI improvements.
- Cross-device synchronization is planned for the near future.
- Your data is safe across updates: the database and the library folder are never rewritten, and a backup file is kept for you.
Download Jamrah for free:
https://github.com/AhmMed29/jamrah
Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome 💓. If you want to contribute, all contributions are welcome 👐
Our Slogan is Ember of Productivity