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Day & Note

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New Keep your notes on your computer

Your whole day,
on one page.

Meetings, tasks and notes, split by project. Whatever you didn’t finish yesterday is already waiting today.

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Day & Note is a desktop app for Mac and Windows. Send yourself the link to install it there.

No account, stays on your computer · macOS 11+ · Windows 10 and 11 · Linux

Sound familiar?

  • Tasks lost somewhere in last week’s meeting notes.
  • Rebuilding the task list from memory every morning.
  • A calendar, a task app and three note apps for one day.

Day & Note puts the whole day on one page, and carries over what you didn’t finish.

New Google Calendar

Your meetings, already on the page.

Connect Google Calendar once and every day opens with its meetings in place, each with a notes page waiting. No copying times across, no second window. Flip the switches below.

Settings Calendar

Google Calendar you@gmail.com
Connected Connecting…

Show on my days

  • Work 3 today
  • Personal 2 today
  • Company events 1 today

Read-only. Nothing is written back to Google.

Sunday, October 25

Meetings 5

  • Gym 45m Personal Notes
  • Standup 15m Work Notes
  • Design review 1h Work Notes
  • All-hands 45m Company events Notes
  • 1:1 with Mia 30m Work Notes
  • Dinner with Sam 1h 30m Personal Notes

Synced just now

  • Read-only

    It reads your events. It never creates, changes or deletes one.

  • Your pick of calendars

    Work on, company events off. Only the calendars you choose show up.

  • Private either way

    On your computer, events stay there. With cloud sync, titles, your account and the token are sealed first.

  • Notes before the call

    Every meeting gets a notes page on its day, ready when you click it.

Free in the alpha: Settings → Calendar → Connect. How we handle Google data

How it works

Every day is a page.

The date is the headline. Meetings sit at the top, then your tasks, and the rest of the page is yours to write in. Try the pieces below; they work like the app.

Meetings

Notes that turn into work.

Type during the call. When someone says “I’ll send that by Thursday”, one shortcut makes it a task, tagged with the meeting it came from. Click a line to try it.
  • Click a meeting to open its notes right on the day
  • ⌘⇧A turns the line you’re on into a task
  • Raw while you type, Clean once it’s tidy
Design review
Raw Clean ⌘⇧A line → task

Tasks 1

Send the updated mockups Design review
Website Delete meeting

Now line New

Know what you’re working on.

A line under the date keeps the one task you’re on, with its timer. Pause it, switch to another, or mark it done. Press ▶ on a task to try it.
  • Press ▶ on a task, or ⌥↵, to start it
  • Worked time against the size you gave it
  • Pauses itself for meetings, sleep and quit

Good morning.

Wednesday, October 7

3 tasks open. Press ▶ on one to start.

Now 0:00

Tasks

Review the onboarding PR
Send the updated mockups
Call the bank

Images New

Paste a screenshot. Only you can see it.

Whiteboard photos, the mockup from Slack, the bug you just caught. Images go in any note, meeting or project page, and each one is sealed on your computer with its own key. Flip to Server sees for the server’s copy.
  • Paste, drop files from Finder, or type /image
  • Drag an edge to resize, double-click for full size
  • Resized on your device, with location data stripped
Website Today

Launch checklist

Mia’s final hero, approved this morning:

Ship once Safari matches.

Sealed on this device, with its own key, before it syncs The server stores this. The key never leaves your Mac.

Carry-over

Nothing unfinished gets left behind.

Tasks you didn’t finish wait for you under “From earlier”. Bring them here and get on with it. No copying lists by hand.
  • Shows on today only, with the day it came from
  • Moves sub-items with it
  • One click for all of them
Tasks 5

From earlier 3

Write the release notes Yesterday
Share the v1 scope with the team Mon · Sprint planning
Renew the domain Sep 28
Review the onboarding PR
Book the dentist
Add a task

Projects

One day, split by project.

Work, a client and your own life share the same morning. Switch tabs to see one project, or All for everything. Meetings always stay on top.
  • A colour per project: dots, checkbox rings, timeline blocks
  • Notes per project, per day
  • Sub-projects for clients with several apps
Review the onboarding PR
Send the updated mockups
Draft the Q4 roadmap
Pick up the dry cleaning
Build the new pricing page
Call the bank about the card

Notes for the day

Focus: roadmap before lunch, then the pricing page.

Day plan

See your day as time.

Tasks without a time wait in the tray. Drag one onto the timeline, or press Fill my day to put the rest into the free gaps, starting from now.
  • Meetings and planned tasks on one timeline, 6 AM to midnight
  • Pick a time from suggestions: next free, after a meeting
  • A red line for now, updated once a minute
Day plan 6 AM – midnight
2h 45mplanned 6h 15m free
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
Standup
Review the onboarding PR 10:00–11:00
Design review 13:00–14:00
1:1 with Mia
Draft the Q4 roadmap
Send the updated mockups
Call the bank
3 tasks in the tray

Project pages

The things you copy every day, one click away.

Each project gets a page for what outlives a single day, and a Kit: the URLs, keys and commands you keep looking up. Click a row to copy it.
  • Links as a favicon grid, and a free-form page
  • Text, links, secrets, code and whole .env files
  • Dev, QA and Prod, with a red edge on production

Acme

Kit
Copy all

On this computer, sealed with your key

Search

Find anything you’ve ever written.

Press ⌘K and start typing. Results show up grouped, with the day and the project, before you finish the word.
  • Meetings, notes and tasks, across every day
  • Searched on your device, so it works with encryption
  • ⌘↵ opens a result next to today

And the rest

The small things you’ll use every day.

  • Floating note

    Keep yesterday, or any day, in a small card while you work on today.

  • Dock

    Pin up to six projects, tasks or meetings to a floating dock.

  • Full-screen focus

    Meeting notes or the day’s writing, alone on the screen.

  • Markdown that formats itself

    Paste Markdown and get headings, lists and checkboxes.

  • Your shortcuts

    Every shortcut can be changed, and clashes are caught for you.

  • Light and dark

    Follows your system, with a switch in the top bar.

  • Sub-projects

    One client, several apps, each with its own links and Kit.

  • Updates itself

    Signed updates download quietly. You just click Restart.

Keyboard first

Your hands never leave the keys.

Every list ends in an input and Enter saves. Tab nests, ⌥⇧↑ moves a line. And every shortcut is yours to change.

  • ⌘K Search everything
  • ⌘T Jump to today
  • ⌘[] Previous and next day
  • ⌘⇧A Line to task
  • ⌥↵ Start a task (the Now line)
  • ⌘. Quick bar on a task
  • ⌘⇧F Full-screen notes
  • ⌘⇧O Floating note
  • ⌘\ Hide the sidebar
  • / Block menu while writing

Quick add

A task from anywhere, without switching apps.

Press ⌃⌘Space in any app and a small panel drops in over it. Type the task, Tab for a note, ⌘↵ and it’s on today and the panel is gone. You never leave what you were doing.

Animation: in a browser, a mail app and a chat app, pressing Control, Command and Space opens the Day & Note quick-add panel. A task and a note are typed, Command and Return add them to today and close the panel.

  • ⌃ ⌘ Space Open from any app
  • tab Add a note
  • ⌘ ↵ Add to today and close
  • esc Close without adding

The dock

What you keep opening, one click away.

Pin the projects, tasks and meetings you go back to all day. They float at the bottom of the window, a meeting counts down as it gets close, and a task ticks off without leaving the dock. Same dock on a Mac or a PC.

Try it: open a pin, or drag one somewhere else

  • 1–6 Open a pin
  • J Hide or show the dock
  • Drag to reorder, up to six pins

Private by default

Your notes stay on your computer. Unless you say otherwise.

Day & Note starts with your notes in a folder on your computer: no account, no internet, nothing on our servers. Want them on every device? Turn on cloud sync, and everything is end-to-end encrypted before it leaves. Switch any time, nothing is lost.

Where your notes live

A folder on your computer.

Your days are saved in ~/Day & Note: one database file, your images and a daily backup. It opens instantly, works on a plane, and you can copy, move or back it up like any other folder.

  • No account

    No email, no passphrase. Download it and start.

  • No internet needed

    Write, plan and search with no connection.

  • Nothing on our servers

    What you write never leaves your computer.

  • Backed up daily

    A copy of each of the last 7 days, in the folder.

Sealed before it leaves.

Everything you write is sealed on your computer before it syncs, and the server only ever stores ciphertext. Your passphrase never leaves the device, so nobody else can read your days: not us, not our host, not anyone who breaks into the server.

Never sees

  • Notes and meeting notes
  • Images and screenshots
  • Tasks
  • Meeting titles and project names
  • Links, secrets and .env files

Still sees

  • Dates and times
  • Project colours and done flags
  • How many items, not what they say
  • Your account email

Lose both your passphrase and your recovery code and the data is gone for good. There’s no back door to reset it.

Switch any time in Settings. A move only finishes once every note is checked on the other side, so nothing gets lost on the way. Read the full policy.

Fast and light

Instant, and it stays out of the way.

A native app that stays light on the machine. It uses next to no CPU while it sits open all day, and every change is held to these budgets.

from launch to a usable day
< 5s
to switch days, with no spinner
< 50ms
Windows installer
3.3 MB

macOS download 9.3 MB, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel.

In the lab · Day & Note AI

Something is learning to read your days, so you don’t have to. That’s all we’re saying for now.

Off until you turn it on, and you choose what it reads. Everything in the app today stays free.

Download

Start tomorrow morning with it.

Free, and in alpha. Version 1.28.0, released Oct 25, 2026. It keeps itself up to date after that.

Day & Note is a desktop app for Mac and Windows. Send yourself the link to install it there.

macOS Apple Silicon and Intel · macOS 11 or later .dmg 9.3 MB Download for macOS Your system Windows Windows 10 and 11 · 64-bit · no admin rights needed .exe installer 3.3 MB Download for Windows Your system

No account. Not even an email.

Download it and start your day. Your notes are saved in a folder on your computer, and nothing you write goes to our servers.

Want them on another device? Turn on cloud sync any time and everything comes with you.

On your computer, your notes are as safe as the computer. The app keeps a backup from each of the last 7 days in the folder, and you can export everything whenever you like.

With cloud sync on, everything you write is end-to-end encrypted on your device before it leaves. We can’t read it. Read the details

On Linux? Get the AppImage (updates itself) or the .deb.

The app isn’t signed by Apple or Microsoft yet, so your system asks you to confirm once. It takes a minute.

Your download has started

Install on your Mac

Day & Note isn’t registered with Apple yet, so macOS stops it the first time with a message that it’s damaged or can’t be opened. It isn’t damaged. One command tells macOS you trust it.

  1. Open the .dmg from your Downloads folder, and drag Day & Note into Applications.
  2. Open Terminal: press ⌘ Space, type Terminal and press ↵.
  3. Paste this command and press ↵. It prints nothing when it works.
    xattr -cr "/Applications/Day & Note.app"
  4. Open Day & Note from Applications. That’s it.

You only do this once. Updates install themselves after that. Already saw the “damaged” message? Click Cancel, not Move to Trash, then run the command.