Recently, I’ve been hacking on Jot, a notepad that lives in your menubar. It’s a place to quickly take a note and quickly get back to the task at hand.

One fun thing I added was an MCP server. Truthfully, I didn’t have a strong use case for it just yet — I wanted to build it and see what it inspired. The video shows the create_note tool being used by Claude Desktop.

Already, I found a few interesting uses for it. For example, I wanted to create a note explaining what Jot does. I had Claude Code scan the repo, summarize the functionality, and create a note explaining how to use it.