![]() ![]() Hockenberry wrote a small shell script that works as a command-line companion tool - you can use it to append to or get the contents of any dot by number. Tot isn’t properly scriptable with AppleScript, but it does have a URL scheme (documented in Tot’s excellent Help - just that fact that Tot has excellent Help is commendable nowadays) that you can call from AppleScript or shell scripts. You want to sync your dots to an excellent iPhone/iPad version of Tot, too? $20. You want to use Tot on your Mac? It’s totally free. And this is a simple one-time purchase, not a subscription, not an in-app purchase. $20 is, no question, a lot by iOS standards, but the “standards” for iOS utility app prices are so low as to make it not worthwhile to create iOS utility apps. The Mac app is the main attraction for me, and it’s completely free. Some number of you read the preceding sentence and thought, “ $20 for a simple note pad, that’s fucking nuts.” Well, then don’t buy it. The Mac app is free of charge, and the iOS app is $20. Two quick months later, and here we are: Tot 1.0 is shipping, in both the Mac and iOS App Stores. Hockenberry’s colleagues at The Iconfactory made the whole thing beautiful. Somehow, Hockenberry put that together too, with (in my experience) bulletproof syncing via iCloud. Once it became obvious that Tot was useful as a Mac app, it became obvious that it would be really nice to have an iOS companion app. ![]() I, of all people, was actually against the Markdown feature on the grounds that parsing Markdown is a tricky can of worms, but Hockenberry made it work, and at this point, it’s hard for me to imagine Tot without this feature. ![]() You can toggle each dot between a basic rich text view (bold, italics, links) and a plain text representation that uses a small subset of Markdown for formatting. The seven scratchpads are called dots, and each dot has its own color. But a prefs setting lets you turn it into a menu bar app, which, I suspect, is how a lot of Tot users will use it. Tot was largely inspired by Andre Torrez’s utterly simple but deceptively clever app Tyke - a simple scratchpad that lives in your menu bar.īy default Tot works like a regular Mac app, with an icon in your Dock and a regular window. Tot is a replacement for temporary Untitled documents in your favorite text editor or full-blown notes app. Tot is most certainly not a full-blown notes app - it’s like the difference between scrap paper and a notebook. The basic idea: Tot has one window containing seven and only seven scratchpads for collecting text. Over the holidays, my friend Craig Hockenberry started working on a small Mac app with a small name: Tot. ![]()
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