Jot 1.6.0

Jot now works properly with a mouse, has real menus, and has a new Settings window. This release also finishes the requests in #12 and fixes two bugs @AB-boi reported. Jot has a website too: lsuryatej.github.io/jot.

New

• Line highlight. A faint band behind the line you're on, including its wrapped parts. Turn it on in Settings › Appearance. (#12)
• Get around with a mouse. The header's note counter is now "‹ 3 of 7 ⌄ ›": the arrows step through notes, and the number opens a list of every note. Your mouse's Back/Forward buttons switch notes, and Shift+scroll or a tilt/thumb wheel does too, every time. (#12)
• Move list items. Press ⌃⌘↑/↓ with the caret in a list item, or drag it by its checkbox, bullet or number. Sub-items move with it, and a numbered list renumbers itself. (#12)
• Menus.
  • New Window, Help and Services menus.
  • Delete Note (⇧⌘⌫), which ⌘Z brings back, reminders included.
  • Bigger / Smaller / Actual Size text (⌘+ ⌘− ⌘0), now up to 32pt.
  • The same commands are in the right-click menu and the menu bar icon's menu.
  • Move Note is now ⌥⌘↑/↓.
• A proper Settings window, with toolbar tabs. It reopens on the pane you used last, and its height fits each pane.
• Search with the keyboard. In ⌘⇧F, the arrow keys pick a result and Return opens it. Matches are in bold.
• Each note remembers where your caret and scroll position were, for as long as Jot is running.
• Theme notes: accent: now colours math results, ticked checkboxes and links. It's adjusted so it stays readable on your paper.

Fixed

• Pasting into the ⌘F find bar put the text into the note instead. (#18)
• Symbols your font doesn't have, like ⮑ in SF Mono, showed as empty boxes once typed or pasted. They now fall back to another font, as in Ghostty. (#19)
• With Caps Lock on, none of Jot's shortcuts worked, and ⌥⌘←/→ never worked from the keyboard at all.
• Screen Edge:
  • Cards no longer jump while you scroll, and only the card you're typing in redraws.
  • Cards use their note's own font.
  • The edge strip no longer steals clicks from other windows.
  • The sidebar opens on the display your pointer is on, and the stack fades at the top instead of being cut off.
• Dot and grid paper now cover the strip under the window buttons too.

Accessibility

• Settings opens with nothing focused, so there's no stray focus ring. Tab still moves through the controls.
• The new header controls and search results are labelled for VoiceOver.

Full changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0

Jot 1.5.0

A polish release. Most of it fixes visual bugs reported on the issue tracker, plus a pass against Apple's Human Interface Guidelines so Jot behaves like a native Mac app. Thanks to @AB-boi for the detailed reports.

Fixed

• Multi-line selection (#9). Selections now cover every line at its own height, including Cmd+A across headings. No stray line is left behind after you deselect.
• Pasted images (#10).
  • No more blank gap under a pasted image.
  • Arrow keys step cleanly over an image, and the caret sits right beside it.
  • You can't accidentally type into an image's hidden file name.
  • Backspace removes the whole image in one undoable step. From the line below, the first press selects the image and the second deletes it.
  • Drag an image's right edge to resize it.
• Headings (#14). Typing # on a new line no longer throws the caret back up to the previous heading. Headings after the first now get their proper spacing above.
• Screen Edge. The sidebar now slides in smoothly instead of popping in, mirroring the way it slides out. A hide during the slide-in no longer brings it back, and the docked sidebar can't be dragged off its edge.

New

• Cmd+B / Cmd+I add or remove **bold** and *italic* markers (also in the Format menu).
• Cmd+click opens links, like Zed and VS Code. A plain click on a shortened link expands it for editing.
• Real bold. Bold text, headings and numbered-list markers use a true Bold face. Some fonts used to get Semibold, and Monaco got no bold at all.
• Images in list items. - [ ] followed by an image works as one item, with a checkbox that toggles.

Accessibility and appearance

• VoiceOver speaks math results as you type, and has a Results rotor for jumping between lines with results. Images read as "Image", and icon buttons are labelled.
• Readable on every paper. Grey text, the accent colour and the timer chip now meet 4.5:1 contrast on every paper, and go further under Increase Contrast. Header controls, scrollers and the find bar now match a dark or light paper even when macOS is set to the opposite appearance.
• Reduce Motion is respected by toasts and the Screen Edge sidebar. Confetti still plays.

Docs

• The README now documents every feature, with a keyboard shortcuts table and an Accessibility section.

Full changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

Jot 1.4.0

What's Changed

• v1.4.0: fix the in-app updater, 12 bugs found in a pre-release test audit by @lsuryatej in #6

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0

Jot 1.3.0

What's Changed

• Integration/all fixes by @lsuryatej in #4
• Fix/settings typography sidebar by @lsuryatej in #2
• test: add opt-in window harness under tests/ui by @lsuryatej in #3
• fix: a zero-length pomodoro no longer fires the celebration every tick by @lsuryatej in #1

New Contributors

• @lsuryatej made their first contribution in #4

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0

Jot 1.2.0

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0

Jot 1.1.0

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

Jot 1.0.0

First public release.

A native, plain-text scratchpad for macOS — Swift and AppKit, zero
dependencies, ~950KB, no Electron. Global hotkey, four display modes
(floating, menu bar, dropdown, screen edge), swipe between notes, checklists
with click-to-toggle and list mode, inline images with OCR, native find,
inline math with variables and unit/currency conversion, optional one-way
Apple Notes sync, and a privacy-first default: zero network requests unless
you explicitly turn on live currency rates or update checks.

Install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lsuryatej/jot/main/install.sh | bash

See the README for the full feature list.