Antinote
Antinote is a macOS scratchpad app for quick temporary notes, plain-text writing, and inline calculations without turning every idea into a permanent document.
What is Antinote?
Antinote is a native macOS notes app built for fast, temporary capture rather than long-term organization. It helps users jot down short thoughts, lists, links, and lightweight calculations in a minimal plain-text workspace that stays focused on the current note. The app supports quick navigation between notes, keyboard shortcuts, and modes such as Dock, Menu, and Dropdown use, which fit well into everyday desktop workflows. Antinote also includes export options so temporary notes can be sent to other apps when something becomes worth keeping. Notes are stored locally on the Mac, and the app offers local backup controls and settings for expiring older notes. This makes Antinote a good fit for people who want a lightweight scratchpad alongside a more permanent notes system.
Key features
- Capture quick temporary notes in a plain-text workspace
- Do inline calculations while writing short notes
- Swipe or use shortcuts to move between recent notes
- Auto-delete older notes based on your chosen retention settings
- Export notes to other apps when you want to keep them
- Customize themes, shortcuts, and window behavior
- Use Dock, Menu, or Dropdown modes to fit your workflow
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Antinote is a legitimate macOS productivity app for local note-taking. Its documented behavior includes storing notes on the Mac, creating local backups, and offering optional anonymized usage analytics that can be turned off in settings. Review the app's privacy settings if you do not want usage data shared, and remember that temporary-note auto-delete settings can remove older notes by design.
Recommendation: Keep Antinote if you use it for quick capture, temporary writing, or scratch calculations. If you no longer use it, removing the app is generally reasonable, but export any notes you want to keep first and check its local notes and backup data so you do not lose information you still need.
Common paths
/Applications/Antinote.app
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/Antinote/Data/Documents~/Library/Containers/com.chabomakers.Antinote
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