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First release.
Jot is a Mac menu bar app for capturing ideas by voice. Open it, speak, and your thought is saved, no typing, no
friction.
What's in this release
- Menu bar widget: lives in your status bar, out of the way until you need it. Click the waveform icon or press
Cmd+Shift+J from anywhere to open it. - Voice recording with auto-save: tap the mic, speak, and Jot saves automatically after 4 seconds of silence. No
button to press at the end. It just works. - Three transcription engines: Web Speech (free, on-device, works immediately), Whisper (OpenAI, higher accuracy), or
ElevenLabs Scribe. Switch between them from the record screen. - Jots gallery: chronological list of everything you've captured. Tap any jot to expand, edit, or delete it.
- GitHub sync: push your jots as markdown files to a private repo. Pull on another machine to get them back. Simple
UUID-based diffing, no conflicts. - Obsidian export: one click to export all jots to {vault}/Jots/ as markdown with YAML frontmatter, ready to link from
anywhere in your vault. - Config via env vars: all API keys and settings are stored in ~/.config/jot/.env with a JOT_ prefix. Set them in your
shell and they override everything.
Known limitations
- Not notarised: macOS will block the first launch. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
- Web Speech requires an internet connection (it uses Apple's speech servers).
- Jots are stored in the app's localStorage: if you clear WebView data, they're gone. GitHub sync is your backup.
Requirements
macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. Apple Silicon and Intel both supported.