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Jot 2.0

Select text, tap Shift twice, it's a markdown file

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Jot is a capture inbox for macOS. Select anything, tap Shift twice, and it becomes a markdown file in a folder you own. Hold fn to dictate into any app. Ctrl+Opt+A grabs a region of the screen to mark up. Jot 2.0 is rewritten in Rust, off Electron: 675 MB down to 43 MB on Apple silicon. No account, no sync. Speech runs on your Mac with 59 local models. A CLI and an MCP server let Claude Code, Codex and Cursor read, search and tag your notes. One-time license.

PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 81 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views

Niche: note-taking and writing apps · 264 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Notes

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Could you build this?

Partial The capture workflow, markdown files, and screen-region tools are doable with AI help. Global Shift-double-tap detection, system-wide dictation, and native macOS integration require low-level platform work.

What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app (Swift, or Rust with native bindings) using Accessibility and global event-tap APIs for text capture and hotkeys, ScreenCaptureKit for region grabs, and on-device speech (such as Whisper) for dictation. The hard part is reliable system-wide input handling and permissions, plus memory and footprint tuning, which requires macOS platform expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 627 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #15 of 628 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Jot · hn · 2026-11-09 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Parlin · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • MuM · ph · 2026-09-28 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • HoldTalk · ph · 2026-11-03 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Plainkeep · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Exporter · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Listener · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Clementine · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47

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