Design.
The mark, the palette, the rules about shadows, and what the product refuses to look like.
Keyboard-first design on Windows - lessons from building a hotkey app
Designing an app that is mostly used without a mouse. What keyboard-first means in practice - focus, shortcuts, discoverability and accessibility - with examples from Jot.
A dark theme that is not black - choosing a warm near-black for Jot
Pure black and cold grey make dark themes harsh. Why Jot uses a warm near-black (#14120E), cream text and two fixed accents, and how the light theme mirrors it.
One field is a design decision - why the capture box has no title, no list picker, no buttons
Most capture forms ask for a title, a list, a date and a priority. Jot's box has one text field. Why every other field was pushed into the sentence or removed.