Notes that live on your desk.

Classic stickies

Always there, and they can't hold much. No checklist you can tick, no voice memo, no code that survives pasting.

Note databases

Hold everything, inside an app you have to go open. A note you have to remember to look at isn't a sticky.

The toolbar belongs to the note you are using. It fades in on focus, out when you leave, so nine notes on screen is one toolbar, not nine.

Eighteen tools ride in a capsule that sits outside the note, attached to whichever edge you choose and floating a set distance off the window, so none of the writing space goes to chrome. It resizes with the note, so a small note gets a small capsule. Push a note against the side of the display and the capsule flips to the opposite edge rather than falling off screen.

Double-click the title bar and a note rolls up to a strip you can still identify. A note's title is its first line, so "Untitled" cannot exist.

Written, not filed

The tag stays in the sentence where you wrote it — mid-line, at the end of a checklist row, anywhere at all. It is text and filing at the same time.

Folders you never made

A slash makes a parent. #product/names files the note under Names, inside Product, building the tree as it goes. Untagged is a place of its own, so nothing quietly disappears.

Three ways back

Type #tag into the search field, click the tag in the sidebar, or walk the whole tree from the menu bar without opening a window first.

The whole app lives in one menu bar icon. Three of those items have a global key combination — and those three are the only ones Pinora registers.

General

Open at login. Reopen the notes that were on screen when you quit. Spell-check that underlines as you type, never rewrites what you wrote, and leaves code blocks alone.

Toolbar

Park it on any edge of the note — top, bottom, left or right — and set how far off the window it floats, one point to ten.

Note windows

Drop the shadow, square off the corners, pick one of four title-bar transparencies, and nudge the checklist indent until nested boxes line up under the row above.

Backup

Hourly or daily, into any folder — including an iCloud Drive, OneDrive or Google Drive folder, so the file leaves the Mac by a service you already use. Keep 1, 3, 5, 10, 25 or all.

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com.apple.security.app-sandbox                     = true
com.apple.security.network.client                  = true
com.apple.security.device.audio-input              = true
com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write  = true
com.apple.security.print                           = true

One thing it does keep: an identity

Pinora makes a fixed identifier for this install once, with a signing keypair beside it. Nothing reads it, nothing sends it, and it never touches a note you write — it is groundwork for sharing notes with other people later on. The private key is shown only after Touch ID or your Mac password, every time you ask, and you can regenerate the pair whenever you want.

Pricing

Free for 3 notes

every feature included

$12.99, once

removes the note limit. Nothing else is held back.
No subscription — there is no server to pay for.