Four apps that work together

Clipfile

A research tool wearing a read-later app's clothes.

Save a link from anywhere — the share sheet, a browser toolbar, Raycast, a Siri shortcut — and annotate it while you still remember why it mattered. When the story finally needs it weeks later, search and filters get you back to it. Save a page now and it's readable later with no connection at all; the article bodies are encrypted end to end, so offline doesn't mean handing the text to anyone.

Called Research Sync until August 2026 — same app, better name.

QuickNote

A thought caught without leaving the page you're on.

Press ⌥ Space and a notepad drops in over whatever you were doing. Type it, save it, and it's gone — no window to hunt for, no app to switch to. Notes sync over iCloud to a full app on iPhone, a two-pane layout on iPad, and a glance on the Watch, and the ones that matter can be pinned to a widget. Anything you'd rather not leave lying around goes in a locked note, encrypted and opened with Face ID.

Story Desk

The whole distance from pitch to filed, on one screen.

A story starts as a note and ends as a published piece, and Story Desk tracks everything in between — in progress, filed, published — in one dashboard organised by beat. One keystroke opens the new-story panel: type a slug and it builds the note from your template, dated and tagged, ready to write in. Every note also mirrors to a plain Markdown folder on disk, so your reporting is never locked inside my app.

Notch

Apple Reminders, with the clutter taken out.

Notch keeps no database of its own, because iCloud Reminders already is one — everything you see is your real Reminders data, and the Reminders app keeps working alongside it. Lists in a sidebar, a filter switcher built into the header, and a menu bar extra for when you don't want a window at all. Links buried in a reminder become pills you can tap: an email in Spark or Mimestream, a file, a web page — or a story in Story Desk.

Called CleanReminders until August 2026.