Overview
Jot sits in your menu bar and waits. Press Option+Space in any app and a borderless floating panel drops in, ready for the thought before it slips away. Save with Command+Return and the note lands in a searchable local history, or press Command+Down and Jot returns you to the app you were just in and pastes the note right where you were working.
The editor is small but complete. A slash menu brings up checklists, lists, and formatting, images paste or drop straight in, and Arabic flows right to left the way it should. Saved notes can be pinned, copied, edited, or deleted, and a delete is always one Command+Z from coming back. When a note should become an errand, one click turns it into an Apple Reminder with a list, date, and time.
Everything stays on your Mac. Notes live in a single local file guarded by a last-known-good backup and continuous draft auto-save, so a crash never costs you a line. The optional AI panel runs on Apple's on-device Foundation Models to refine, reformat, or draft from a note, and Jot makes no network connections of any kind. No account, no telemetry, no cloud.
Features
Catch the thought before it fades.
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Capture on Option+Space
One global shortcut opens a borderless floating panel over whatever you are doing, already focused and ready to type. Save with Command+Return, or dismiss with Esc and nothing is lost.
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Send it where you were working
Command+Down restores the app you were just in and pastes the note for you. Until you grant Accessibility, Jot copies the note to the clipboard instead so you can paste it yourself.
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Searchable local history
Browse and search saved notes in English or Arabic, then pin, copy, edit, or delete. Deletes are undoable with Command+Z.
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A real editor, slash included
Interactive checklists, lists, and pasted or dropped images, with a slash menu for fast formatting and full right-to-left Arabic support.
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Crash-safe storage
Notes live in one local JSON file in Application Support, guarded by a last-known-good backup and continuous draft auto-save. A crash or a closed panel never loses a note in progress.
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Note to reminder
Turn any note into an Apple Reminder with a list, date, and time picker. Uses EventKit and asks for Reminders permission on first use.
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On-device AI assist
An optional panel refines, reformats, turns a note into a prompt, or drafts an email using Apple's on-device Foundation Models. No API key, and nothing leaves the Mac. Requires macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence.
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Quiet in the menu bar
Runs as a menu-bar accessory with no Dock icon, and can start automatically at login.
Version history
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1.2.027 June 2026
Current build (CFBundleVersion 5). On-device AI panel using Apple Foundation Models (refine, reformat, turn into prompt, draft email); image paste and drop with downscaling; turn a note into an Apple Reminder with list, date, and time picker. Signed and packaged as a DMG.
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1.1.022 June 2026
Crash-safe storage hardening: last-known-good notes.json backup and continuous draft auto-save so a toggle-close or crash never loses an in-progress note. Settings Permissions section showing live Accessibility and Reminders status, with stable self-signed identity so the Accessibility grant survives rebuilds.
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1.0.019 June 2026
Initial release: menu-bar quick capture on Option+Space, inject-into-previous-app via Command+Down, searchable local history with pin, copy, edit, delete and undo, rich editor with checklists, lists, slash commands, and right-to-left Arabic support.
Privacy
No network connections. None.
Jot has no accounts, no analytics, and no cloud, and it makes no network connections at all. Notes are a single local file on your Mac, and AI features run entirely on-device through Apple Intelligence, so note text is never sent anywhere. System access happens only when you ask: Reminders on first use of the reminder button, and Accessibility for paste-into-the-previous-app, which never auto-pastes into a guessed field. Jot reads the clipboard only to offer a quick import and to paste images you copy.
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