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Notes that live at the edge of your screen.

Push your cursor into the screen edge — or hit a hotkey — and the panel slides in over whatever you're doing: fullscreen video, a deck, another Space. Write the thing, press Esc, it's gone.

Try it — rest your cursor on the right edge of the window beside this text, or:

or press Control + Option + N ⌃ ⌥ N
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One-time. No subscription, no account, no telemetry.

Draft — quarterly review. The team presents shipped work and the roadmap in turn, and notes from the previous session are read back before new items are raised.

Costs held flat through spring while usage nearly doubled, attributed to the caching work landed in March. The mobile release slipped two weeks; hiring remains open for two roles.

The board asked for a written follow-up on the pricing experiment, circulated before the next session.

Press Esc to send it away

Built around one motion

Above fullscreen, across Spaces

The panel joins every Space and floats above other apps' fullscreen windows, so summoning it never yanks you somewhere else. Sandboxed notes apps can't do this — it's why EdgeNotes isn't in the App Store.

Plain markdown, on disk

Notes are ordinary .md files, saved as you type. No database, no export step. Point the folder at iCloud or a git repo and you have sync.

Quiet by design

No Dock icon, no window, no permission prompts on first launch — the hotkey and hot edge avoid Accessibility gates entirely. Every action is reachable from the keyboard.

The honest bits

Your notes stay yours. Every note is a markdown file in a folder you choose. Delete EdgeNotes tomorrow and the notes are still sitting there, readable in any editor. Nothing is uploaded, nothing phones home.

Not in the App Store, on purpose. Floating above fullscreen apps and joining every Space isn't possible inside the sandbox. The app is Developer ID signed and notarized instead, so it opens clean on any Mac.

What it doesn't do. No iOS app, no sync service, no AI, no folders-and-tags system to maintain. It's a scratchpad that shows up fast and gets out of the way — that's the whole product.

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  • Signed and notarized, opens clean
  • Automatic updates, forever
  • Support at support@edgenotes.app
  • macOS 13+, Apple Silicon & Intel
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Lives on the keyboard

Toggle the panel (Control + Option + N)⌃ ⌥ N
Summon it pinned (Control + Option + Shift + N)⌃ ⌥ ⇧ N
New note⌘ N
Commands and jump-to-note⌘ K
Search every note at once⌘ F · ⌘ G
Markdown preview · timestamp⌘ P · ⌘ T
DismissEsc

Hotkey, edge, size, opacity and fonts are configurable — live in Settings, or by hand in a plain config.json. Scriptable from Raycast, Alfred or the shell.