Tap Shift twice.

Select text in any app and tap twice. rjot keeps it as a note, along with the app it came from, and you never leave the app you were in.

Install for Mac View source

macOS 11+, Apple silicon · 5.2 MB · MIT

Notes 4QueueScratch

Capture now, sort later.
Claude · 2m
Meeting moved to Thursday 10:30, same room.
Messages · 9m
Browsers often leave AXSelectedText empty, so fall back to a copy and put the clipboard back.
Notes · 24m
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY can't run inside a transaction block.
Claude · 1h

Double-tap Shift to save selected text

Try it here: select any text on this page, then tap Shift twice.

The kits

rjot is a to-do list, a clipboard and a scratchpad, and it doesn't try to be more. Each kit comes with its own caps. Every view is the real app.

The Notes list: captured snippets, each with its source app, time and color label

Base kit: Notes

6 caps

Every selection you keep lands here, newest first, with the app it came from, and the page when it came from a browser. Select an image and it's kept too. Pin what you need at the top and archive the rest.

Save the selection

Save a typed note

FSearch

The Queue: prompts saved for later, one checked off

Queue kit

7 caps

Write prompts before you need them. In ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor, press Option-Shift-V, pick one, and it's pasted in and checked off.

VPaste a prompt, anywhere

2The queue

3Scratch pad

Sensitive kit

4 caps

Note text blurs until you hold Option, and the window stays out of screenshots and screen sharing. Copies a password manager marks as secret are never saved.

SSensitive mode

Hold to peek

Novelties: color labels

6 caps

Six labels for anything you want to find again. Tag a note from its card, then filter the list to one color.

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple

Colorways

6 themes · 12 colorways

Follow your Mac's appearance, or pick one and keep it.

Settings: appearance, the six themes, sensitive mode and sound

Specifications

What it is, what it reads, and where your notes go.

Gesture: Two taps of Shift alone, under 350 ms apart
Reads: The focused app's selected text through Accessibility; otherwise C, with your clipboard put back exactly
Keeps: One JSON file, ~/Library/Application Support/dev.rjot.rjot/notes.json
Sends: Nothing on its own. No account, no sync, no analytics; it asks GitHub for a newer version only when you click Check for updates
Copies: Optionally, every note as a Markdown file in a folder you choose, such as an Obsidian vault
Lives in: The menu bar too: recent captures, quick note, pause, launch at login
Skips: Copies a password manager marks as concealed
Runs on: macOS 11 or later, Apple silicon
Writes: Any language, Khmer included: shaped properly, with subscripts stacked and vowels in place
Weighs: 5.2 MB zipped
Built with: Rust and egui, one native binary
License: MIT, source on GitHub

Assembly

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Install
Paste this into Terminal. It downloads the latest release, checks its SHA-256, puts rjot.app in Applications, clears the quarantine flag and opens it. Run it again to update.
```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yoouTaro/rjot/main/install.sh | sh
```
Allow Accessibility
Click Open System Settings in rjot and switch it on. That lets it hear Shift and read the selection.
Tap Shift twice
Select something anywhere. A short pop means it's kept.

Or download the zip

A downloaded zip is not notarized yet, so right-click rjot.app and choose Open the first time. Free and open source. Or build it from source.