Save selected text to a note with one key.
Select text in any app on your Mac, press one key, and it’s in your notes, with the name of the app it came from. Nothing opens, nothing interrupts.
$9.99 onceOne key, any appmacOS 14 or laterApple silicon and Intel
Select it, press three keys. Stay where you are.
You never leave the app you’re reading.
The sentence is selected. Click 02 to press the chord.
With a note open, the text is added to it as a new line instead. ⌥⇧Space needs macOS’s Accessibility permission, asked once on first launch.
Where it earns its keep.
Three places it saves you a trip back.
Reading and research
Keep the sentence that mattered instead of another open tab. It lands in your notes with the name of the app it came from.
Mid-meeting
The address in the chat, the time in the email, the number in the doc. One chord each, and the meeting never loses you.
Terminals and code
Error messages, snippets, and commands land as plain text, ready to paste, with the app they came from remembered.
Every capture
keeps its source.
The Shelf’s Captures tab files every clip under the day it happened, wearing the icon of the app it came from. Peek at one to copy it, or jump to the note it went into.
- Filed under the dayToday, yesterday, then by date. The way you remember when someone said it.
- The app it came fromIts name and icon ride along with every clip. You can switch this off.
- Peek, then copyA quick read-only card with Copy, and Show in note for a clip that went into one.
- One search for all of itPlain keyword search across every capture and note. ⌥⇧S opens the Shelf from any app.
Click a capture to peek at it.
Asked, answered.
What people ask before they press the keys for the first time.
Any app with selectable text: browsers, editors, chat, terminals. A few apps do not expose their selection; for those, the Capture in HushNotes item in the right-click Services menu does the same job.
To the note you have open, if one is open; otherwise the capture stands on its own in the Shelf’s Captures tab, filed under the day it happened. A small “Text captured” pill confirms it, with Undo.
No. Capture is silent by design. You stay in the app you were reading, and the pill confirms the text landed.
Yes. The pill shows Undo from the moment the capture lands.
No. A capture is written straight to disk on your Mac.
The ⌥⇧Space shortcut needs macOS’s Accessibility permission, so it can read the text you selected. The Services menu item works without it.