Summon it anywhere
One shortcut over any app: browser, IDE, spreadsheet. The bar arrives in a blink and leaves the same way.
One keystroke, from any app
Type once. It knows where it goes.
Chute is a tiny command bar that catches a thought before it vanishes, then files it as a reminder, note, or calendar event. With the reason shown, every time.
Private beta · Made for Mac & Windows · ⌘⇧Space
Chute
live demo
Reminders
Apple Notes
Calendar
Slack
The app's actual routing brain, running in your browser.
Summon⌘⇧Space · global
StorageLocal SQLite · on device
UpdatesSigned · automatic
AccountNone required
Destinations8 built in
It lives in your menu bar
Summon it over anything.
File the thought. Keep working.
Then it tells you where everything landed, right in the notch.
Type like a person
“Buy milk tomorrow at 5pm.” Times, lists, and links are understood as you type. No syntax to learn.
Enter. Sorted.
It sends with the reason attached. Wrong guess? Flip it in one tap: ⌘Z brings anything back.
A capture surface should
disappear
when you don't need it, and arrive without ceremony when you do.
It should respect both your hands and your attention.
Nothing more is needed.
Nothing less will do.
The reflex
One key.
Over anything.
Mid-email, mid-code, mid-scroll: the bar drops over your work, takes the thought, and leaves. Your hands never leave the keyboard, your eyes never leave the page.
Explainable routing
It decides where things go.
And it shows its work.
No black box. Every capture carries a plain-English reason (“looks like a to-do”, “has a time”, “contains a link”), so you always know why something landed where it did, and you can correct it once.
Split on send
One mixed capture fans out: action lines become individual reminders, the prose stays together as one note.
One-tap correction
Every guess carries its reason and a “Not a to-do?” flip. You are never stuck with the machine's opinion.
Undo, even after send
A short grace window holds each capture back. ⌘Z pulls it back before it leaves your machine.
Updates itself
Signed builds arrive quietly in the background. Restart when you feel like it, never mid-thought.
Designed for thinking
A small surface,
considered in every detail.
Summoned, not opened
One shortcut over any app. The bar arrives in a blink and leaves the same way. No dock, no window juggling.
Tags, not taxonomy
One keystroke files a thought under work, personal, or idea. No sidebar, no folders to tend.
Lands in the notch
Rest on the notch to see where today's captures went and what's due. No dock icon, no window. Screens without a notch get a small tab.
Times find the right home
An appointment becomes an event, a deadline becomes a reminder. The distinction is automatic, and explained.
Undo, even after send
A short grace window holds every capture on your machine. Change your mind before it leaves.
Yours by default
Every capture lands in a local SQLite store before any network call. You decide what leaves your machine.
Integrations
Configured once.
Sent on capture.
Connect your tools during setup, then forget about them. Destinations are one tap away on every capture, and timed text finds the calendar on its own.
On device
Your thoughts
stay yours.
Every capture saves locally first. Connect destinations only if you want. You can run Chute completely offline with zero accounts.
- Local SQLite history on your machine
- No telemetry, no analytics
- OAuth tokens stay on disk, never on a server
- Sync only what you choose, when you choose
Changelog
Built in public.
Shipped weekly.
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Oct 22
v0.3
Finish it from the notch. Mark a reminder done, or snooze it to later, without opening Reminders. Copy any capture to paste into the app you're in.
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Oct 22
v0.3
Your day, in the notch. Rest on the notch to see where every capture went. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are one tap apart, and what's due today sits on top, with anything you missed in red.
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Oct 19
v0.3
Say it instead. Hold Right ⌘ and talk. Your words are transcribed on your Mac, never uploaded, and land wherever they'd go if you'd typed them.
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Jul 16
v0.2
Appointments know they're appointments. "Get biometrics done at 11am" becomes a calendar event; "…done by 5pm" stays a reminder. Deadlines and bookings route differently now.
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Jul 14
v0.2
Split on send. A mixed capture fans out: action lines become individual reminders, prose stays together as one note.
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Jul 12
v0.2
Updates itself. Signed builds download quietly in the background; restart whenever you feel like it.
Capture your first thought.
Chute is in closed beta. Drop your email in. It routes straight to us, and the installer comes back by hand.
Mac (.dmg) and Windows (.exe) installers sent by hand. Updates arrive on their own.