... built Jot. Option+Space pops a little box over whatever you're in, you type, hit Command+Return, and it's gone again. Whatever you wrote drops into a plain text file on your Mac you can searchlater. It stays local, no account, and it doesn't throw permission prompts at you when you open it. Costs $4.99, once. Mostly posting because I'm curious how other people here deal with this, and whether a flat one-time price ...

... turning the agent into a structured analysis partner. Instead of one-shot answers, it guides you through a 5-step loop (Ask Look Investigate Voice Evolve) and saves each analysis as Markdown files you can Git-track and searchlater. Checklists nudge you to consider confounders, Simpson s paradox, and counter-metrics. Two modes: Quick (single file) and Full (multi-file + quality gates). Free and open source. It s scheduled to go live on the homepage ...