Sticky notes for the Mac

Your notes, tucked into the notch.

A deck of notes in your Mac's notch. Checklists, attachments, reminders, locked notes and iCloud sync.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store

macOS 14 or later
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A fan of coloured notes below the MacBook notch, with tag pills above them and a round plus button below.

How it works

The notch at rest: the NoteNotch icon and a note count on the left, a coloured dash for each of the newest notes on the right.

In the notch

The left side shows how many notes you have, the right side the colours of the five newest.

The deck fanned out below the notch, the blue card lifted forward under the pointer.

Point at the notch

The deck fans out: 3 to 10 notes as cards, the rest behind “Show All”.

The notes window: a list of notes on the left, a yellow checklist note on the right.

Click a card

The note opens in a window. Esc closes it.

A new note being typed in a card right below the notch, with the keys for save, new line, open in window and discard below it.

Quick capture

Press ⌃⌥N in any app. A card opens below the notch. Type, press Return, and the note is saved.

⌘Return saves and opens the note in the window
Send selected text from any app through the Services menu
Shortcuts actions to create, append to, find and open notes

A checklist note with three attachments below the text: a picture, a PDF and a CSV file, and a field to drop more.

Checklists, pictures and files

Notes hold checklists, lists and formatted text. Pictures go into the text or below it. Any other file up to 20 MB can be attached and opens with its own app.

Drag files, text or links onto a note
Find text inside a note with ⌘F, search all notes with ⌥⌘F
Attachments sync and back up with the note

A locked note in the notes window: a lock, the words This note is locked and an Unlock button.

Locked notes

Lock a note and its text and attachments are encrypted, on your Mac and in iCloud. The title stays readable. Touch ID or your Mac password opens it.

A locked note takes no changes until you open it
It closes after 5 minutes, when the Mac sleeps or the screen locks
The key is in your keychain and reaches your other Macs through iCloud Keychain
Shortcuts and AI agents never get a locked note's content

A single yellow note as its own small window, with a checklist and three small buttons in its title strip.

Notes on the desktop

Put a note on the desktop as its own small window. It stays there while you work, and you edit it in place.

Keep it in front of other windows
Roll it up to its title strip
It is back where you left it after a restart

The deck filtered by the work tag: only the work notes fan out.

Tag notes, then pick a tag below the notch and the deck shows only those notes. Pin notes to the front and drag the rest into the order you want.

The same filter in the notes window
The archive keeps finished notes out of the deck
Deleted notes stay in the trash for 30 days

Reminders and agents

Reminders

Set a time on a note. You get a Mac notification, and the notch shows what is due.

Apple Reminders

Optional. Notes with a reminder also appear in Apple's Reminders, so they ring on iPhone and Apple Watch. Tick one off there and the note is done here.

AI agents

Connect Claude Code or another MCP client. Each agent gets its own key and its own rights: read, create, append. Nothing is reachable until you add one.

Your data

Stored on your MacNo account, nothing to sign up for.

iCloud sync is optionalOff by default. When on, notes and attachments sync through the private iCloud database of your Apple Account.

Daily backupsOne copy of all notes per day on your Mac, kept for 7 days. Bring back single notes from any of them.

Markdown exportExport every note as a Markdown file with its attachments, and import them again.

Out of screen sharesThe notch and the note windows can be kept out of screen sharing, recordings and screenshots.

No trackingNo analytics. The privacy manifest declares no tracking and no collected data.

Questions

My Mac has no notch. Does NoteNotch work?

Yes. NoteNotch draws a notch at the top edge of the screen. It only takes clicks on itself. In Settings you can switch to a small pill below the menu bar instead.

Do I need iCloud?

No. Notes are stored on your Mac. iCloud sync is off until you turn it on in Settings.

What happens if I lose the key of a locked note?

The note can't be opened any more. The key lives in your keychain. With iCloud Keychain on, your other Macs have it too. If no device has the key, nobody can read the note, including us.

Which files can I attach?

Any single file up to 20 MB. Folders and apps can't be attached. Pictures can also stand in the text.

What can an AI agent do with my notes?

Only what you allow for that agent: read, create notes, append to notes. You can limit an agent to one tag. Agents can't delete or archive, and they never see locked, archived or deleted notes.

I use more than one display. Where does it show?

On the display you choose in Settings, or on Automatic.

What does it cost?

The price will be announced at launch.

NoteNotch

macOS 14 or later