Notes on building a Windows quick-capture app: performance budgets, focus handling, local storage, and what has not been proven yet.https://jot.wrivio.com/enhttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/capture-action-items-during-meetings/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/capture-action-items-during-meetings/A practical Windows workflow for recording meeting tasks, notes and reminders in seconds without leaving Teams, Zoom or the document in front of you.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTHow-tohttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/the-free-tier-is-not-a-trial/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/the-free-tier-is-not-a-trial/Everything Jot does on your own machine is free and stays free. Working out which single thing to charge for was harder than deciding to charge at all.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:35:00 GMTProducthttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/notes-and-todos-are-different-animals/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/notes-and-todos-are-different-animals/One has a deadline and wants to leave. The other has no deadline and should stay. Jot captures both through the same box, and the entire distinction is one key.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:25:00 GMTProducthttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/choosing-a-global-hotkey/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/choosing-a-global-hotkey/Windows has hundreds of reserved and squatted combinations, and it will not tell you who owns one. A practical method for picking a shortcut that works everywhere.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:10:00 GMTHow-tohttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/read-your-own-database/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/read-your-own-database/Jot stores everything in one SQLite file with no proprietary format. Here is how to open it, query it, export it, and confirm for yourself what is and is not in there.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:05:00 GMTHow-tohttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/backing-up-a-local-first-app/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/backing-up-a-local-first-app/The trade you make for owning your data is that nobody else is holding a copy. Here is what that actually requires of you, in about fifteen minutes of setup.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMTHow-tohttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/getting-more-out-of-microsoft-to-do/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/getting-more-out-of-microsoft-to-do/It is already installed, already on your phone and already wired into Outlook. Most people use about a third of it. Here is the useful third, and the parts that are genuinely weak.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:55:00 GMTHow-tohttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/the-windows-utility-buyer/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/the-windows-utility-buyer/A category where people happily paid twenty dollars once and will not pay three a month. What that tells you, and why this product is charging monthly anyway.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:35:00 GMTIndustryhttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/small-tools-in-the-ai-everything-era/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/small-tools-in-the-ai-everything-era/Every product is expected to have a model in it now. For a tool whose whole value is speed and predictability, that expectation is mostly a trap — with one narrow exception.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMTIndustryhttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/not-a-note-app/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/not-a-note-app/Every capture tool eventually grows an editor, then folders, then a graph view, and stops being usable for the thing it was built for. Here is the anti-persona, written down so it can be enforced.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTProducthttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/quick-capture-on-windows/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/quick-capture-on-windows/Compare Sticky Notes, OneNote, Microsoft To Do and AutoHotkey for capturing a task or note on Windows without breaking your concentration.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMTHow-tohttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/reminders-that-reach-your-phone/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/reminders-that-reach-your-phone/Jot has no phone app and no server, and it still gets a reminder to your phone. It does that by writing into Microsoft To Do, which already lives there — here is exactly what that involves.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTHow-tohttps://jot.wrivio.com/blog/local-first-and-bring-your-own-key/https://jot.wrivio.com/blog/local-first-and-bring-your-own-key/Two patterns that used to be ideology are turning into ordinary product decisions, for unglamorous reasons — subscription drift, model prices falling, and platform apps going quiet.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMTIndustry