Jot is a macOS notes inbox designed to capture things from whatever app is currently open. Select text and press Shift twice to save it as a jot; images in the selection and screenshots on the clipboard can be captured too. Other shortcuts create quick notes, dictate into the active app, record speech as a jot, annotate screen regions, or draw a page into the inbox. A keyboard-first interface provides search, command palette, archiving, merging, and agent-sharing tools. Dictation and text cleanup can use on-device options or a cloud provider chosen by the user.
The central selling point is ownership and simplicity: each jot is a plain Markdown file stored locally in ~/Documents/Jot, with no account or built-in sync, and analytics disabled unless enabled. Notes can be read by other tools, and Jot includes a command-line utility and an MCP server for agents to search, read, add, finish, archive, and tag jots. It can open new chats in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or T3 Code, without sending anything until the user confirms. The app supports Intel and Apple silicon Macs running macOS 12 or later; some Apple speech features require macOS 26. All features are available in a three-day trial, followed by a one-time license for one, three, or ten Macs. Launch prices are $9, $24, and $69, with a seven-day refund period.
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