---
name: AntiNote
subtitle: Notes that fight against organizing themselves
date: 2026-04-07
category: writing
tags: [macos, notes, scratchpad, productivity]
description: "A frictionless scratchpad for the moments where Notion or Apple Notes is too heavy to bother."
link: https://antinote.io/
---

import slide1 from '../../assets/reviews/antinote/swipe.mp4';
import slide2 from '../../assets/reviews/antinote/plaintext.mp4';
import slide3 from '../../assets/reviews/antinote/links.mp4';
import slide4 from '../../assets/reviews/antinote/math.mp4';
import slide5 from '../../assets/reviews/antinote/conversions.mp4';

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    <figcaption>Tap a hotkey, type, tap again — the floating sticky stays exactly where you left it.</figcaption>
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    <figcaption>Markdown formatting renders inline as you write.</figcaption>
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    <figcaption>Pasted links collapse to readable titles, expandable on click.</figcaption>
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    <figcaption>Inline math: type an expression, see the result alongside.</figcaption>
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    <figcaption>Unit conversions resolve as you type.</figcaption>
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> A floating-sticky scratchpad for thoughts that don't deserve a database row — phone numbers, half-finished sentences, a URL you need for ninety seconds. Hit a hotkey, type, hit it again. The note stays exactly where you left it; no naming or filing.

Multiple notes can float at once, snap to screen edges, and stack neatly. There's enough markdown to keep text readable (bold, italic, code blocks, headers), and code-fence detection kicks in automatically when you paste in JSON or a stack trace. No syncing, no tags, no folders — when something matters enough to keep, you copy it into Notion or Bear yourself.

macOS only, single-device, one-time purchase.
