inspired by the a simplicity of TextEditor, and an intuitive distractionless of Left. Powered by Tauri, a framework for building tiny, blazingly fast binaries for all major desktop platforms.

features

• lightweight (~3mb)
• writing-focus only
• quick inserts
• quick word referencing
• support extensions .txt, .md, .doc, .docx, .rft, .rtf

download

download latest installer at release page, support major platforms(Win/OSX/Linux)

usages

marker will be created by #, ## or ###. eg. `# header marker`, or ## sub-header marker or ### marker for quickly navigate between header.

for word referencing(eg. word¹), use ^ follow by any number eg. word^1 and type Cmd+Shift+6 (make sure the cursor is within the target word) will be converted to word¹ and append reference to the end of the file.

shortcuts

• Cmd+o : open file
• Cmd+n : new file
• Cmd+s : save file
• Cmd+Shift+s : save as file
• Cmd+f : find text
• Cmd+' : toggle navigator
• Cmd+b : open url
• Cmd+[ : move to previous marker
• Cmd+] : move to next marker
• Cmd+Shift+6 : convert to footnote superscript
• Cmd+Shift+; : switch between dark/light theme

inserts

• Cmd+d : Date
• Cmd+t : Time
• Cmd+p : Path
• Cmd+h : Header¹
• Cmd+H : Sub-Header¹
• Cmd+/ : Comment

¹will create marker at navigator

QA

is this WYSIWYG editor?

it intentionally designed to focus on distractionless writing, thus textarea is being used. in this sense, jot is NOT a WYSIWYG editor.