One note that stays with the work
Keep a calm note window beside your current task. Fold it, pin it, make it translucent, or hide it when you are done.
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Coming soon · macOS · rev. 2026.06
Floatnotes
A beautiful local note that floats beside your work.
Capture the thought, checklist, or snippet you need right now without opening a full notebook app. Floatnotes stays light, local, and keyboard-friendly.
A scratchpad for the edge of the screen.
Floatnotes is for the small working notes that are easy to lose and too useful to bury. It is not a knowledge base, team workspace, cloud notebook, or subscription sync service.
Write naturally with invisible Markdown
Use headings, links, highlights, inline code, bullets, numbered lists, and checklists while keeping Markdown ready to copy out.
Capture without context switching
Create notes from the menu bar, use Option-J while Floatnotes is active, or capture clipboard text from the Capture menu.
Search working notes fast
Search by title or body, filter by pinned notes, color tags, and open tasks, then jump back to the note you need.
Export when a note needs to travel
Copy Markdown, copy a note as a PNG, or export a polished sticky image.
Local by default
Notes stay on your Mac as JSON in Application Support, with automatic backups kept beside the store.
Keep the note where the work is.
Floatnotes is planned as a $9.99 one-time Mac App Store purchase. It stores notes locally at ~/Library/Application Support/DetachedNotes/notes.json with automatic backups in DetachedNotes/Backups/.
There is no account, sync service, advertising SDK, production analytics, or tracking service in the current app build.
↳ native Mac app ↳ local JSON notes ↳ no account
macOS · $9.99 one-time · notify list