Public repository and README only. Toolglass has not opened a binary or tested state recovery.
TESTED BY TOOLGLASS: NO
What is it?
pad.local arranges an editor, terminal, browser and related panels on an infinite local canvas. It is a spatial answer to the familiar problem of losing the reference material while moving between windows.
Why did Radar notice it?
Position can carry meaning. A terminal beside the file it changes is a small form of working memory. The risk is equally clear: a canvas can become one more thing to maintain.
What's the catch?
The project documents limits around supported editors and WSL, and describes unsigned binaries. The important test is not an empty canvas screenshot but whether a real working arrangement survives a restart.
Radar verdict
An appealing desktop experiment with a very practical question waiting behind the nice spatial metaphor: does it save attention over a normal window manager?
Next step
Build a modest workspace, restart it, and measure recovery and memory use.