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Skedoff Workstation: Edit Social Media Drafts From Your PC — No Cloud Required

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Most content planning tools want the same things from you.

An account. A connected social handle. A monthly payment. And your drafts — sitting on a server you don’t control.

Skedoff does none of that.

It is a privacy-first, offline-first social media content planner. No account. No cloud. No auto-posting. Everything lives on your device. The workflow is simple: Draft → Queue → Published. You write, you decide when to post, you publish manually.

That was v1.0.0.

But one thing kept bothering me after shipping to Google Play.

Typing long captions on a phone keyboard is painful.

Not unusable. Just slow. And if the whole point of Skedoff is to write without friction — a small keyboard is friction.

So I built something.


What Is Skedoff Workstation?

Skedoff Workstation is a desktop companion app that connects to your phone over local Wi-Fi and lets you edit your drafts directly from your PC.

How it works:

  • Open Workstation on your desktop
  • Connect via local Wi-Fi — same network as your phone
  • Your drafts appear, editable with a full keyboard and mouse
  • Changes save instantly back to your phone

No cloud. No accounts. No relay server.

Just your phone and your PC, talking locally.


Why Local Wi-Fi and Not Cloud Sync

The easy answer would have been: sync to a cloud backend, edit from anywhere.

That is also the wrong answer for Skedoff.

The moment I introduce a sync server, I have changed what the product is. Suddenly there is a backend. Suddenly there is an account. Suddenly your drafts live somewhere you do not fully control.

That is exactly what I built Skedoff to avoid.

Local Wi-Fi keeps the same promise:

  • zero backend
  • zero account
  • data stays on your device
  • the desktop tool is just a window into your phone

It is a constraint. It is also intentional.


The Things Skedoff Will Never Do

This has not changed and will not change:

  • no auto-posting
  • no social API connections
  • no account required
  • no cloud sync
  • no analytics
  • no telemetry

The core workflow stays Draft → Queue → Published.

You write. You decide when to post. You publish manually. You stay in control.


Download

AndroidGoogle Play

Linux (.deb and AppImage) — GitHub Release v1.0.1

Windows (.exe) — GitHub Release v1.0.1


What Is Next

v1.1.0 will focus on:

  • Local notification reminders for queued posts
  • Bulk actions — move or delete multiple drafts at once
  • Share to Skedoff from other apps

Still keeping it narrow. Still resisting feature creep.


Skedoff is built by FlagoDNA — a solo digital studio building privacy-first tools.

If you have been using Skedoff or have thoughts on the desktop direction, I would genuinely like to hear it.

Product pageflagodna-developer.github.io/skedoff

Building in public, one intentional feature at a time.