JotNow Documentation

General

• Menu Bar Icon — click to see options
• Show Open Notes — ⌥⌘J — available from any application
• MCP Documentation
  • Use Settings to enable the local MCP server
  • Connect using your favorite AI agent
• Profile Documentation
  • Use Settings to update your Profile
  • Share listed notes to add posts to your Profile

Note Manager — Main Window

• New Note — ⌘N
• Print Selected Note — ⌘P
• Find Note — ⌘F
  • ↑ ↓ to navigate the note list, ↵ to open
• Context Menu — right-click (ctrl-click) any row in the list

Tip: Drag selected text or text files (RTF, TXT) onto this window to create notes. You can also drag exported backups (JotNow [*.jnb], Evernote [*.enex], etc.) to this window to import the notes in the selected notebook.

Notes

• New Note — ⌘N
• Show Note Manager — ⌥⌘M
• Show Open Notes — ⌥⌘J
• Show List (To Do) — ⌘L
• New To Do — ⇧⌘L
• Close Note — esc
• Dock Note — ⇧⌘D
• Shrink / Collapse Note — ⌘S
• Insert Date — ⌘D
• Insert Date & Time — ⌃⌘D
• Rename Note — ⌘R
• Print Note — ⌘P
• Zoom In — ⌘+ or ⌘=
• Zoom Out — ⌘-
• Reset Zoom — ⌘0
• Selected Text:
  • Bold — ⌘B
  • Italic — ⌘I
  • Underline — ⌘U
  • Remove Formatting — ⇧⌘T

Context Menus:

• Header (title bar) or footer — change note colors, styles, notebook, etc.
• Text area — spell check, paste, etc.
• To rename: press ⌘R, then ↵ to commit or esc to cancel

Tips:

• Change the content type to Markdown using the Format menu in the header (title bar).
• Activate a link by highlighting it and using the context menu.
• Jump to the last to-do item with ⌥↓ while the list is visible.

Open Notes — ⌥⌘J

• New Note — ⌘N
• Open Selected Note — ↵
• Dock All Open Notes — ⇧⌘D
• Shrink / Collapse All Open Notes — ⌘S
• Choose Note — ↑ ↓, then ↵ to show
• Show Note Manager — ⌥⌘M