A Mac menu bar notepad that keeps you on task

Hello Reader,

You start a task, switch to another app while it runs, and ten minutes later you cannot remember what you were doing.

Sounds familiar?

Why This Matters

When you run every part of your business, you rarely work on one thing at a time.

Each switch between projects costs you a few minutes to find your place again.

A small notepad that is always one click away gives you that time back.

Tot is a small notepad app for your Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

It is free to download, with optional paid features.

Seven dots: Tot gives you seven color-coded dots, so you can keep one note per project.
Menu bar control: You can control Tot from the menu bar, so your notes stay one click away.
Over full-screen windows: Since Tot 2.0, the app can appear over full-screen windows, and you can display it as a floating window.

Open Tot's settings to choose between the menu bar icon, the Dock icon or both.

Plus, you can configure your own keyboard shortcut and open it with your Stream Deck

Jan Trautwein, a business and life coach, runs multiple projects at once with AI.

Here is how he uses Tot to keep them straight.

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I write like, 'Okay, this is the project number one, next step there. Number two, next step there.'

— Jan Trautwein

One line per project is the whole system.

In episode 179, Jan and I also compare how each of us fills the waiting time while AI works.

Cheers,
Damien