Five apps · Mac, iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch · 2026

Five apps that work together.

On the Mac, each app is one keystroke away, from whatever you're doing.

01 · Read

Clipfile

MaciPhone & iPadSafariChrome & Brave

A read-later research tool.

Press ⌥⌘S in Safari and the whole article is saved, text and all, and you can note why it mattered while you still remember. A folder is suggested for it within moments, and the classifier that picks one sees only the title and the URL, never the article.

When the story finally needs it weeks later, ⌥L brings your list up over any app on the Mac, search gets you back to it, and a page you saved is readable with no connection at all. Read in Chrome, Helium or Brave? A direct-download Mac version saves from those too, unlocked by the same App Store purchase.

On the App Store Mac, iPhone and iPad. No account to create.

See what it does App Store Chrome & Brave version

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

02 · Note

Jottle

MaciPhone & iPadApple WatchWidgets

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 file to name. A note is plain text with a date on it, and the first line is the title.

Notes sync through your own iCloud to iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The ones you'd rather not leave lying around go in a locked note, under a passphrase only you know. Export the lot as ordinary Markdown whenever you want out.

On the App Store One download covers Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

See what it does App Store

Called QuickNote while I was building it — that name was taken on the App Store.

03 · Write

Prexy

MaciPhone & iPadMarkdown mirror

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

A story starts as a note and ends as a published piece, and Prexy tracks everything in between — not started, in progress, completed — on one board, filtered by beat. The beats are yours to rename and reorder, so the board describes your desk rather than someone else's.

One keystroke from inside any app opens the capture panel: type a slug, pick a beat, and the story exists. Every note also mirrors to a plain Markdown folder on disk, so your reporting is never locked inside the app.

On the App Store Mac, iPhone and iPad, one download.

See what it does App Store

04 · Follow up

Notch

MacMenu bariPhone & iPadWidgetsCapture

Your reminders, made calm.

Notch keeps no database of its own, because your iCloud reminders already are one — everything you see is your real data, and Apple's own app keeps working alongside it. Type "call the office tomorrow at 9" and the date is lifted out of the title instead of left sitting in it.

On the Mac, ⌃⌥⌘C opens a small panel over any app: type a task and press Return, or see what's coming and tick it off. Links buried in a reminder become marks you can open — an email, a file, a web page, or a story in Prexy.

A direct-download Mac version adds capture: press ⌃⌥⌘C over Mail, Prexy, Finder, Photos, Messages or WhatsApp and the task links straight back to what you were looking at. The same App Store purchase unlocks it.

On the App Store Mac, iPhone and iPad are one app, not three.

See what it does App Store Capture version

05 · Reach

Deets

MaciPhone & iPadApple WatchWidgets

A hotkey, a name, the number.

Reporting runs on being able to reach someone in the next thirty seconds, and an address book you have to go and open is the wrong shape for that. Deets is a search field that appears over whatever you're doing: three letters of a name and the card is there, number ready to dial, gone again on Escape.

It reads the Apple Contacts you already have — no import, no second address book, no account. A business card becomes a contact by scanning it, and all of that reading happens on your device.

On the App Store Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

See what it does App Store Support

Free on iPhone and iPad. One price on the Mac.

Every app is free for 14 days on the Mac, then a one-time purchase — $9.99 for Jottle, Prexy, Notch and Deets, $6.99 for Clipfile. No subscription, no account. Four of them keep your data in Apple's own apps or your own iCloud, so nothing is held hostage if you stop.

$9.99or less, once, per Mac app

The rest of the shelf

Ten more, built for an audience of one

Each of these solved exactly one problem I had, and then I just kept using it. They're here so you can see what I've made — not because I'm selling them. Several need an API key, a paid service or a setup only I have, and none of them are supported.

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