Tidbits
Quick save any text on Mac
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Tidbits - Quick save any text on Mac

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Quick save any text from anywhere on your Mac. Select text, press ⌘⇧., and a floating panel saves it to a local page, without ever leaving your app. No cloud, no account, no bloat. Everything stored as local files you own. Pipe them into Claude, scripts, or whatever. For people who hoard useful text but hate the overhead of Notion/Obsidian for quick saves. Open source.

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I journal, read, and research with LLMs all on my laptop. Between all of that, I'm always copy-pasting text into some new "simple" knowledge base that is just too bloated for what I need (Notion, Obsidian, Craft, etc). I honestly just prefer Google Docs but hate copy-pasting. So I made Tidbits to quick save text easily and have started hoarding all the interesting tidbits I want to keep for later. I've been using it for a few months: How I use it -- pages have a "Copy path" button, and so does the master folder. I'll use those paths with Claude Code when planning or journaling as a more explicit and intentional memory/context control. I really hate how ChatGPT will remember arbitrarily details like what I cooked for dinner but have no recollection of my ongoing physical injury. Or sometimes ChatGPT will just bring up irrelevant context to something I'm discussing with it. Open-sourced because I like transparency in anything new that asks for permission. Plus would love to get feature requests and expand this!