Writing

Engineering.

How the thing is built: window handling, storage, sync, and the seams that make any of it testable.

  1. 2 min

    Remembering which app you were in when you captured something

    Each Jot capture records the app you were in, like "via OUTLOOK.EXE". How it reads the foreground process on Windows, why it happens before the overlay appears, and what it does not record.

  2. 3 min

    The first date wins - how Jot decides which date in a sentence is the reminder

    A line like "push the meeting from Tuesday to Thursday" contains two dates. Why Jot's parser takes the first one, strips tokens before reading dates, and shows the result before saving.

  3. 2 min

    Hidden from the screen you share

    The meeting you are taking notes in is often the one you are presenting to. Jot's next release keeps its windows out of screen sharing with one Windows call - and here is what is still unproven about it.

  4. 4 min

    Parsing a meeting line without a model

    The Meeting tab sorts every line into a decision, an action for someone, a note or a question - with a page of rules, no AI and no network. The interesting part is what those rules refuse to guess.