Stash

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Stash is for short thoughts, not documents. When an idea comes back days later, add to the thought you already have. Each addition keeps its own date, so you can see how the idea grew.

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A reading nook under the stairs

Started Monday 12 October · 4 entries · last added today

The thought so farA bench seat in the 1.9 m space under the stairs, lit by a plug-in wall light. Sam can build it in November.Made on this Mac
  1. Mon 12 Oct08:52

    Could the space under the stairs be a reading nook? Bench seat, one shelf, a wall light. Needs measuring.

  2. Next morning

  3. Tue 13 Oct07:40

    Measured: 1.9 m long, 74 cm deep at the low end. Room for the bench, not the shelf.

  4. 7 days later

  5. Tue 20 Oct18:15

    A plug-in wall light with a cloth cable would save chasing a wire into the plaster. · Voice

  6. Next day

  7. Today09:14

    Sam can do the joinery in November.

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Write it down before it goes.

One key opens an empty thought with the cursor already in it. Type, press ⌘↵, and get back to what you were doing. If it belongs with something you wrote last week, choose that thought and it becomes an addition.

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From anywhere on your Mac

⌘N in Stash, or a global shortcut from any other app, opens the capture panel. ⌘↵ keeps the thought; Esc closes the panel and clears it.

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Speak it on your iPhone

Hold Compose to dictate a thought. It's saved as text and marked as voice.

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Or wherever you are

Siri and Shortcuts, a Home Screen widget, a Control Centre button, the share sheet and a browser extension all save straight into Stash.

It files itself.

Stash reads each new thought on your device and puts it in the categories it fits. You never have to pick a folder.

  • Your corrections always win. Move a thought to another category and Stash won't move it back.
  • Unfiled shows what it wasn't sure about. It suggests a category, and you can accept or skip it.
  • Search finds every entry as you type, additions included, grouped by thought.
Today
A reading nook under the stairs
↳ Sam can do the joinery in November.
Home3 additions09:14
Cairngorms maps from the library
Travel08:30
Yesterday
Retry the sourdough with less water, about 68%
↳ Better. Crumb more open, still a bit flat.
Cooking1 addition19:02
Talk on local-first sync, and why it keeps the last upload
Workyoutube.com12:41
Birthday ideas for Robin
Unfiled07:55

Your notes stay yours.

Stash has no account and no server of its own. Thoughts sync through your iCloud, and the clever parts run on your Mac and iPhone. The privacy policy has the details.

On device

Filing and summaries run locally

Categories and "The thought so far" come from Apple's on-device model. Nothing is sent to a cloud AI service.

iCloud

Synced in your private iCloud

Your notes, links and pictures are stored in iCloud with encrypted fields, between your own devices.

Never lost

Built not to lose a word

Once you press Keep, a crash can't lose the thought, and an edit is saved as you type. Deleting goes to Trash, and an addition made on another device brings a trashed thought back.

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Save the page you're on.

Click the Stash button, press ⌃⇧S, or right-click and choose Save to Stash. The page arrives as a thought, with anything you'd selected quoted under the link.

  1. Download the extension and unzip it.
  2. In Stash on your Mac, open Settings → Save from Chrome and click Copy Key.
  3. In Chrome, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and choose the unzipped folder.
  4. Paste the key into the extension's options and click Save. On your first save, tick Always allow and click Open.
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Using Safari? The extension comes with Stash. Turn it on in Safari → Settings → Extensions on your Mac, or Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions on your iPhone.

Stash is in beta.

It's being tested on TestFlight for Mac and iPhone, and needs macOS 27 or iOS 27. A link to join the public beta goes here once Apple approves it.

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