Telemak — the menu bar
No window, no Dock icon, no notifications. Telemak lives in the menu bar and stays out of your way.
Click the Telemak icon in the menu bar and you get the whole control surface.
Status, at a glance
Section titled “Status, at a glance”The top of the menu shows the daemon’s live state:
| Indicator | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Phase | idle · prefill · decode · streaming — what the daemon is doing right now. |
| Tokens / tok/s | the current request’s token count and decode speed. |
| Last error | the most recent failure, if any — so you don’t have to open the logs for the common case. |
| Endpoint | the address it’s serving (http://localhost:8003). |
Models
Section titled “Models”- Load model — opens the curated list; the dialog tells you which models fit your RAM before you commit. Several can be loaded at once.
- Models view — the loaded models with their wired-memory footprint, so you can see what’s eating the budget and unload what you don’t need.
- Unload — frees a model’s wired memory.
Daemon control
Section titled “Daemon control”- Start / Stop / Restart — control the serving process. Restart is the quick fix after changing something; the LaunchAgent restarts it on crash anyway.
The logs live under ~/.telemak/logs/ (daily-rotated JSON). The menu bar surfaces
the last error so the common case needs no terminal; open the log files when
you need the full trace.
Why no Dock icon
Section titled “Why no Dock icon”Telemak is a background service you talk to over HTTP, not an app you sit inside. A Dock icon and notifications would be noise. The menu-bar icon is the whole UI on purpose — glance, control, dismiss.
Read next
Section titled “Read next”- Architecture — the daemon and LaunchAgent behind these controls.
- Performance — what the tok/s numbers should look like.
- Getting started — installing and loading your first model.