Index № notchpad February 2026 · Tiny Things Ship · 2026

NotchPad

Notes, clipboard history, snippets, voice notes, and Apple Notes moved into one private Mac inbox around the notch.

NotchPad is a Mac utility I designed and built solo. It treats the area around the notch as a persistent capture surface for the things you reach for constantly: quick notes, clipboard history, snippets, voice thoughts from NotchLive, and Apple Notes you already have.

Why it exists

Capture should be zero friction. Most note tools want you to open a window, find a folder, pick a context. NotchPad assumes you have a few seconds and one hand free, and works backwards from there. Hover the notch on a notch-equipped Mac, or hit ⌃⌃ on any Mac running Sequoia.

NotchPad notes view open around the MacBook notch over a mountain wallpaper. The dark panel shows Notes, Clipboard, and Snippets tabs, search, pinned notes, recent notes, settings, and a quick compose button.

What it does

Write quick notes without leaving what you’re doing. Speak with NotchLive, dictate, AI-clean, send the note back to NotchPad. Capture copied text automatically, then pin or merge what matters. Reuse repeated text as snippets for code, email, prompts, signatures, commands. Pull, browse, search, and edit Apple Notes from the notch without switching context. Drop documents and code files onto NotchPad to import them as notes. Passwords from 1Password, Bitwarden, and Apple Passwords are detected, stored locally with AES-256-GCM, and only revealed with Touch ID.

NotchPad clipboard view open from the notch. Search, filter, delete, pinned clipboard items, source app labels, timestamps, protected content, and a scroll state are visible in the dark local clipboard history.

What I own

Product direction. SwiftUI and AppKit implementation. Local-first storage and the encryption boundaries. Apple Notes integration. NotchLive hand-off. Mac App Store shipping. Reached Product Hunt top 10 without paid promotion.

NotchPad snippets view open from the notch. A new snippet action sits above reusable snippets for API fetch templates, git commands, Tailwind classes, SSH tunnels, and cleanup commands.

Built with

Swift native macOS app built as a local-first capture layer around the notch. The product combines quick notes, clipboard history, reusable snippets, Apple Notes import/sync, file import, sensitive-text protection, and NotchLive voice-note handoff into one searchable private inbox.

Stack: Swift, SwiftUI, AppKit, NSPanel, Liquid Glass, NSEvent global monitors, clipboard monitoring, Apple Notes integration, local-first storage, searchable note and snippet data, AES-256-GCM, Touch ID.

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