jot — a terminal notebook
for thoughts you’re embarrassed to open Notion for.
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Isaiah ntina

jot — a terminal notebook - for thoughts you’re embarrassed to open Notion for.

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Most note apps assume your thoughts are already clear. Mine usually aren’t. jot is a tiny CLI tool for capturing raw thoughts, half-ideas, and nonsense — directly from your terminal. No tags. No folders. No setup. One notebook. Chronological. Local. You type. You press enter. You go back to work. Over time, patterns show up on their own. If you want a second brain, this isn’t it. If you want a place to be early, welcome.

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Isaiah ntina
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I didn’t set out to build a note app. I built jot because I kept having thoughts that felt… too messy for Notion. Too half-baked for a doc. And definitely not something I wanted to explain to another human. So they’d live in my head. And then come back at 1:43am. Louder. One day I opened my terminal — the place where nothing judges me — and thought: why can’t I just put it here and move on with my life? That’s jot. It’s a single notebook. In the terminal. For nonsense. No tags. No folders. No “organize later” guilt. You write the thought. You press enter. You go back to whatever you were doing. If this feels unnecessary, amazing — you probably already think clearly. If it feels obvious… that’s who I built it for. Happy to answer questions. Unhappy to add tags.
Imtiyaz
Curatora

@intina Not every thought deserves structure. Some just need somewhere to land so they stop looping at 1:43am.

The terminal as a judgment free space is such an honest insight. One notebook, no organization, no guilt. That constraint is the feature.

We see the same thing with Curatora when people just want raw ideas without dashboards, filters, or pressure to polish. Sometimes dumping the thought is the clarity.

Respect for saying no to tags. This will find its people.

Isaiah ntina
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@imtiyazmohammed well put, dashboards make people productive. jot is for when you’re just trying to sleep.

Tetiana
MultiDrive

@intina cool tool and the story behind it. Congrats on your launch!

Isaiah ntina
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@tetianai Thanks T.

Vasily Andronov

If I understand correctly, to launch it you need to run a command in the PC terminal?

Isaiah ntina
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@voxdecaelo install it using 'npm i -g @intina47/jot' and then each time a thought comes to you just run ' jot init '