Pennant

Your Slack status, set from your calendar. Write a few rules once, and Pennant keeps your status and Do Not Disturb in step with your day from the menu bar.

How it works

• Rules

  Each rule is a regular expression for event titles, like standup|sync|1:1, plus a status emoji, text, and whether to turn on Do Not Disturb.

• Order

  Rules are checked top to bottom and the first match wins. Drag them into the order you want.

• Expiry

  Your status clears itself when the event ends, even if your Mac is asleep.

• Overlaps

  When events overlap, the higher rule wins, then the event that started most recently.

• Calendars

  Pick which calendars count. All-day, cancelled, tentative and declined events are skipped.

Polite by default

• Your changes

  Set a status by hand and Pennant leaves it alone until the next event it controls.

• Snoozes

  If you've already snoozed notifications for longer, Pennant won't shorten it.

• Pause

  Stop updates from the menu bar. It stays paused across restarts.

• Sync Now

  Reapply the current event's status right away.

Getting started

• 1. Install

  Open Pennant.dmg and drag Pennant to Applications.

• 2. Slack app

  Create a Slack app from the manifest, install it to your workspace, and copy the xoxp- user token.

• 3. Settings

  Allow calendar access, paste the token, and add your rules.

Details

• Native

  SwiftUI, sandboxed, and lives only in the menu bar. No Dock icon, no account, no server.

• Private

  Your calendar stays on your Mac. The Slack token is kept in your Keychain.

• Updates

  Signed, notarised, and kept up to date with Sparkle.