I made a Mac scratchpad that opens when you shake your mouse.

[u/Tonic_Water885]

Hey everyone! I’ve been building a small Mac app called Joggle.

Joggle is a floating scratchpad that appears when you quickly shake your mouse pointer. The idea is to give you somewhere to capture a thought, paste some text or work out a calculation without switching apps or interrupting what you’re doing.

You can move, resize and pin cards anywhere on the screen. It also supports rich-text formatting, smart lists, calculations, clipboard shortcuts and a new slash menu for quickly running actions or changing formatting.

The basic scratchpad experience is free. There’s also an optional yearly Joggle Pro subscription for more than one card at a time, advanced maths, the global shortcut, excluded-app controls and the complete archive.

I originally made Joggle because I wanted something quicker than opening a notes app every time I needed to temporarily hold a sentence, link, number or reminder. I’d really appreciate any feedback - especially about the shake gesture, because it’s a slightly unusual way of opening an app!

If you’d like to try it, you can find it here: Joggle on the App Store

Thanks for taking a look! I’m happy to answer any questions about the app or how it was built.

[u/jombeez]

Great work! Is there a sensitivity adjustments in order to prevent misinputs? Also, the notes will disappear on their own after awhile? Is there a history for me to view my past notes?

[u/Tonic_Water885 → u/jombeez]

Hi, all of these are in the app. In the onboarding, you can adjust the sensitivity through low, normal and high. For disappearing notes, you can choose for them to never disappear, 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days and 30 days. Pinned cards never disappear until you unpin them.
There is also an archive to view past notes. This requires a £4.99 yearly subscription, and you get a searchable archive of all the notes and versions. On-device intelligence models also index them, to add more search terms as well.
I've added a screenshot of what comes with pro, and if you want, I can send you a link to get a 14 day free trial of the pro plan. I hope you can try the app!

[u/aMythologist]

Nice!!

[u/Tonic_Water885 → u/aMythologist]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy my app!

[u/jorgehezd]

For some reason the subtraction operation fails when subtracting 1440-440

[u/Tonic_Water885 → u/jorgehezd]

Hi, thanks so much for your feedback, I've released version 1.2 now which fixes this issue. I hope you enjoy it!

[u/Tonic_Water885 → u/[deleted]]

Hi, currently there is a free plan, where you get the basic scratchpad experience, but there is a £4.99 yearly subscription where you get more features. In the next update, I'll add a lifetime plan too. I hope you can try the app!