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.

Nothing here is released.

The phases

1. Verifying

   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: Two monitors, mixed DPI scaling, acrylic, the Windows accent colour, the tray menu, and autostart surviving a reboot.

2. Written

   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 Windows notifications, once each.

   Not proven: All of it, on Windows. The parser has unit coverage; nobody has watched a reminder fire on a real machine.

3. Planned

   Task sync

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

4. 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.

5. Verifying

   Microsoft Store package

   An MSIX package and a Store subscription for the sync add-on, so the app can be installed and updated the way Windows expects.

   Not proven: Windows App Certification Kit, which needs a human to click through an elevation prompt; that app data really escapes the MSIX sandbox; and the Store licence check, which needs an add-on that does not exist yet.

6. Planned

   The rest of the Windows pass

   Everything above with an unproven line against it, walked on real hardware, including an Azure app registration for sync and a live API key for the AI features. This is what stands between the app and a download link.

7. Planned

   First release

   A direct download and a Store listing at the same version, with the phases above marked released rather than written.

8. Planned

   After that

   Notion as a second destination, Markdown folder export, 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.
• No Microsoft sign-in has ever completed, so no capture has ever appeared in a real To Do list.
• No request has ever been sent to Anthropic or OpenAI.
• Date parsing, reminders and the Settings toggles have never been exercised on Windows.
• Two monitors, mixed DPI, acrylic and the live accent colour: all untested.
• Windows App Certification Kit has not been run.

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.