Quick Scrap Note

I use Apple Notes as my main note-taking app.

While Apple Notes has Quick Note, every word I jot down there is automatically saved into Apple Notes. This ends up piling a lot of junk notes that I have to manually clean up at the end of the day. I often find myself jotting down quick, temporary things—like a phone number, a serial number, or a quick calculation. These are scrap notes that I don’t really care to keep permanently inside Apple Notes.

That’s the purpose of this app.





It is plain text only. No frills. It's quick to launch (set a global hotkey in Settings. I prefer to use ⌃ Space). With the hotkey it's fast to show the app window, typed something, and hide it.

Oh, I can choose to save it into Apple Notes (via shortcuts) and it's like a fast and simple front end to Apple Notes.

Keyboard Shortcuts

⌘ N create new page
⌘ D delete page

⌘ - smaller font
⌘ = bigger font

⌘ ← previous page
⌘ → next page

⌘ E clear the current page
⌘ S save into Apple Notes [via a Shortcut link, which is included in the Settings of the app).

⌘ , open settings (or click the menu Scrap Note > Settings...)




You can do quick calculation by typing an equation followed by == (This is powered by SoulverCore, so you could do unit conversion too).

Oh, and it's Free to use. Enjoy!





For those who are adventurous, you can edit the shortcut to save into another app, for example, Obsidian. Please make sure to keep the same Shortcut Name: ScrapNoteToNotes
Here is an example of how the Shortcut looks:



P.S. if you would like to buy me a coffee ☕, I'd appreciate it very much. I only have this PayPal setup to receive funds, so here it is: PayPal.Me/belfong I'd much prefer 5-star App Store review, if you could so oblige. Thanks ♥️♥️♥️



Version History:
V1.4:
[Fixed] A pesky bug was intercepting keyboard shortcuts, which sometimes prevented you from creating a new page, deleting a page, or changing the font size. This has finally been fixed (hopefully), and it warranted an emergency update to V1.4.

[New] Keyboard shortcuts have been added to navigate between pages. Use ⌘ + Left Arrow and ⌘ + Right Arrow to go to the previous and next page, respectively. Hope this helps you work faster!

V1.3:
[New] Updated marketing screenshot.

[Fixed] Made the app icon smaller so it looks nicer in the Dock. I want to provide an option to hide the Dock icon, but this is more complicated than expected. It might break the menu (and with it, your keyboard shortcuts), so I’ll need more time to test this properly. I’m currently between project - thanks for your patience!

[Fixed] The “New Page” toolbar icon was not showing in Sonoma and earlier macOS versions.

[Fixed] Undo/Redo, ⌘z, was not working - this has been resolved.

[Fixed] When your current page is yellow and you add a new page, the new page was also yellow. I’ve changed this so new pages default to white instead.

V1.2:
[Fixed] New user starts with Page 1 of 0

[Fixed] New user toolbar is hidden. Toolbar should always show for new user

V1.1:
[New] Colors

[New] Multiple pages

[Fixed] When the app launch, it will always show the text edit window

V1.0:
New launch!

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