very good notepad

whenever i want to save or jot down some text i open textedit. it's a habit, or quirk. i know there are more efficient ways but here we are.

it works and i like the isolation of these notes. i don't want them in apple notes, some code editor, web app, or system. it's the equivalent of taking a scrap piece of paper and writing something down. maybe it gets discarded, maybe saved. mostly discarded.

problem with textedit — it asks you if you want to save, delete, or cancel when you close a note. after a while notes collect and it annoys me to revisit them and decide what to do.

so i built this. it behaves like textedit but auto-saves and names notes so i don't have to care about any of that.

i built it using claude code and its new xcode integration. it's a nice example of how easy it's become to build software that does exactly what you need. i made this for myself but maybe someone else finds it useful too.