Where this actually stands.

The vocabulary

Four words, used strictly:

Written

The code exists and its tests pass. Nothing more.

Verifying

Parts of it have been walked on real Windows hardware.

Released

You can download it and it works.

Planned

Nothing has been built.

The Store package is released. Features still marked verifying or planned have the limits shown below.

The phases

1. Released

   Capture

   The hotkey, the overlay, the local database, the tray icon, drafts that survive a dismissal, and the confirmation that appears without stealing a keystroke.

   Not proven: The 100ms hotkey-to-paint budget and mixed-DPI multi-monitor behaviour are not yet measured on representative hardware.

2. Verifying

   Dates, tags and reminders

   Natural-language dates, #tags, >lists and the importance flag read out of the line as you type it. Due captures become Jot popups or Windows notifications, once each.

   Not proven: The packaged notification path passed a real Windows smoke test; timed reminder and restart catch-up journeys still need a full pass.

3. Written

   Portable capture workflows

   Markdown export puts a readable copy of every current note and todo in a folder you choose. Quick-add templates get meeting notes, daily plans, quick tasks and follow-ups started faster; an optional daily review summarizes open work at a Windows-local time.

   Not proven: The export flow, templates, review schedule and native test notification have unit coverage, but still need a final pass in the packaged Windows build.

4. Verifying

   Meeting minutes

   A Meeting tab in the capture box: type a line per point and Jot sorts it into decisions, actions for named people, notes and open questions. Actions keep a checkbox across meetings, a small pill stays on screen while the meeting runs, and the minutes copy into a reply - or, if you turn it on, open as a reply in classic Outlook.

   Not proven: The parser, minutes and storage have unit tests and the screens run in a browser harness. Hiding the overlay from a real Teams screen share and opening a reply in a real Outlook still need verification.

5. Planned

   Task sync

   An optional way to take selected Jot tasks beyond this PC, without making an account a requirement for capture.

6. Written

   Bring-your-own-key AI

   Paste an Anthropic or OpenAI key and Jot can tidy a rushed capture, split a run-on line into separate items, or suggest which list something belongs in. Free, because you are paying the provider.

   Not proven: That either provider accepts what Jot sends. No real API key has ever been used against it.

7. Released

   Microsoft Store package

   An MSIX package that Windows can install and update through the Store. The packaged build keeps its data in the app's own storage and has no sync subscription or Microsoft sign-in in this release.

   Not proven: The 0.5 MSIX passed Windows App Certification Kit on 2026-10-07 and its packaged update check recorded the current version. Store delivery of an available update still needs real Store verification.

8. Verifying

   The next Windows reliability pass

   Save failures, recovery, Store-delivered updates, mixed DPI, real provider calls and meeting flows need a final installed-build pass.

9. Released

   Microsoft Store release

   Jot is available through the Microsoft Store. The direct-download installer is a separate build and is not the public update channel.

10. Planned

    After that

    Notion as a second destination, a reminder lead time separate from the due time, and capturing the address of the page you were on and not just the app.

What has actually been confirmed

On 2026-08-19, one person at one Windows machine walked the top of the verification checklist against a development build, an installed release build and a sideloaded package. This is what came back true:

• The global hotkey opens the overlay from another app, with Jot idle in the tray, on a dev build, an installed release build and a sideloaded package.
• Focus lands in the input with no click, and goes back to the app you came from when you dismiss.
• The confirmation appears bottom-right, about 16px clear of the taskbar, and does not take focus.
• Six captures in quick succession, then a hard kill of the process: all six were on disk and the database's own integrity check passed.
• The installer builds, installs and runs. So does an MSIX package, sideloaded.

What the first hour on Windows found

The overlay was appearing in Alt-Tab. The code that hides it there runs once at startup, and Windows silently discards that setting the first time a transparent window is actually shown - which is a thing you cannot learn from a test suite, a cross-compile or a screenshot. Every capture the app had ever made, in every build, had been leaving a window in the switcher. It is fixed by reapplying the setting on every show, and it is the reason none of the rest of this page says "done".

The longer version, including why no amount of testing from another platform could have caught it, is written up here.

What is still unproven

The more important list of the two:

• The 100ms figure is a design budget. Nobody has put a timer on it.
• Microsoft To Do sync is planned and is not available in this release.
• No request has ever been sent to Anthropic or OpenAI.
• Timed reminder and restart catch-up journeys need a complete installed-Windows pass.
• Two monitors, mixed DPI, acrylic and the live accent colour: all untested.
• The 0.5 MSIX passed Windows App Certification Kit; delivery of its update through the Store is untested.
• Meeting minutes: hiding from screen sharing and the Outlook reply have never run on Windows.

Why this page exists

Because the alternative is a roadmap with green ticks on it, and a green tick is a claim nobody has to stand behind. Every item above can be checked against the verification checklist in the repository, which is a 540-line document listing everything that needs a Windows machine and a person, with the ticked items dated.

If something on this site claims more than that file supports, it is a mistake and worth telling us about: support.