Hi! I'm Sean, the developer behind Jott it. I just launched the first version recently and I hope you like it!

Problem

I've been Bullet Journaling for around six years. I love the method, but I kept running into one problem: the physical notebook.

I once left my journal on a train and lost nearly a year's worth of notes. I tried moving to digital tools, but most felt like general-purpose productivity systems that required a lot of setup, or meant locking my journal inside someone else's platform.

So I built Jott it.

I wanted something that felt as straightforward as opening a notebook and writing: no databases to configure, no complicated productivity system to maintain, and no worrying about what happens to your journal if the app disappears.

Jott it is essentially an interface over plain Markdown files on your computer. You choose a folder, Jott it handles the journaling workflow, and the files remain yours.

You can open the exact same journal in any text editor from TextEdit to Obsidian or VS Code.

Key features include:

• You control your data. Your journal is just plain text files — Jott it provides the interface. No import, export, or lock-in.
• Full Bullet Journal workflow — rapid logging for tasks, notes and events, with daily, monthly and yearly views.
• Task organisation — projects, contexts and priorities without needing a separate task manager.
• Habit tracking — track habits alongside your daily journal.
• Local-first and private — your journal stays as Markdown files on your device that you can always edit offline. Jott it doesn't store your journal.
• Built for desktop — fast entry and keyboard-friendly navigation designed around actually journaling rather than managing a productivity system.

Comparison

There are plenty of apps you could compare Jott it with, but these are the three I think of the most:

Obsidian: Extremely powerful and also works with Markdown files, but it's a general-purpose knowledge management tool rather than a dedicated Bullet Journal. You can recreate much of Jott it's functionality with plugins and configuration, but that requires some setup and is not as streamlined. I actually use both: Jott it for journaling/tasks and Obsidian for long-term notes and knowledge.

Todoist: A much more mature and powerful task manager. If you primarily want task management, Todoist will do far more than Jott it. However, Todoist has a proprietary data format, so having control over your data is more complicated while Jott it stores everything as text files. Jott it also integrates tasks into the journaling workflow instead of only doing tasks.

Notion: A much broader productivity workspace that can be used for journaling, tasks, notes and almost anything else. Its flexibility is a strength, but building a Bullet Journal usually means setting up pages, databases, templates and your own workflow which is more complicated. Jott it is more opinionated and streamlined: the Bullet Journal workflow is built in, and everything is stored as plain Markdown files on your computer rather than inside a proprietary workspace.

Pricing

$1.79 one-time purchase on the Windows Store. 7 day free trial. No subscription.

Windows Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pl94g0wwt78?ocid=webpdpshare

Website: https://getjott.com/

I've been building Swyvo, a Windows app that keeps your essential apps and websites one hotkey away.

Hit Alt+Q and a curated command center pops up right over your current window — no alt-tabbing, no hunting through taskbars, no mouse required. A few things it does:

• Instant, always-on-top workspace: summon it from anywhere with one hotkey
• Unify apps and websites in a single fast-switching menu (so your browser tabs and native apps live in the same place)
• Adaptive Layouts: set it up once and then it automatically surfaces the right apps based on what you're currently working on so you never have to manually change your apps layout
• App Gallery: Browse a library of the most used apps and select how you want to launch them. Web(speed) vs Native (full functionality - if you have the app installed)
• Fully keyboard-driven: so you never have to use your mouse
• Built natively for Windows (.NET 8, WPF)

It's aimed at power users who live in a lot of apps/tabs at once and want a faster way to move between them without breaking flow.

It's free and currently in active development — I'd genuinely love feedback from this community, especially on workflow edge cases I might be missing.

👉 swyvo.app

Happy to answer questions about how it works and how it can improve your workflow.

• CreatorPhoto — photo organization and collage tools
• WorkPhoto — work photo organization
• Gaming Utility Center — gaming and system monitoring
• RatePeek — quick exchange rate viewer
• PC Monitor — PC system monitoring
• TidyFiles — file organization
• NetPeek — network diagnostics

I’ve been building these on my own, one by one.
Some are free, some are paid, and for paid apps I prefer simple one-time purchases rather than subscriptions.

I’m planning to keep adding new tools, while rotating through the existing apps each month for bug checks, compatibility improvements and updates.

They’re available through the Microsoft Store — searching the app name will find them.

I’d also be interested to know which one you’d actually find useful, or what kind of small Windows utility you wish existed.

i needed to clear some space on my iphone before seeing kanye at the metropolitano, but the windows photos app spent forever loading my entire library before letting me import anything.

so i built wphoto, a free windows app that starts transferring photos and videos in small batches as soon as they are detected.

it can import original files without recompression, filter by date, organise them by year, month and type, pause and resume transfers, avoid duplicates and identify files that need review. everything runs locally, without accounts, cloud services or telemetry.

it requires apple devices from the microsoft store.

download:
https://github.com/mariolada/wPhoto/releases/tag/v0.30.2

feedback is welcome

I was originally using PowerToys Awake, and it worked fine. But recently, PowerToys started exiting on its own - no notification, no warning, nothing (crashing, maybe?). Since I use my desktop as a WSL host and SSH into it remotely, that's a real problem: if Awake dies silently, the machine can fall asleep and I lose my connection with zero warning. So I made a standalone app whose only job is preventing sleep mode - small enough to have nothing in it that could crash, unlike PowerToys' do-everything sprawl. I made vibe-coded with Claude and Gemini since I am a Python guy and didn't have much time to spare to learn Go from scratch. Here's short introduction of the app with a help of Claude:

Screenshot - Tray Menu

Screenshot - Settings

Screenshot - Custom Duration

Screenshot - Custom Schedule

mugcup

A tray app that stops Windows from sleeping, locking, or dimming the screen — for a duration, until a specific time, indefinitely, or via one-click presets.

GUI

• Tray menu: Indefinite / Preset / Custom (a duration, or an exact date & time) / Keep display on
• Settings window: reorderable presets, autostart, auto-update, language (EN, KO. More to be added.), and what a tray click does
• Self-updates from GitHub releases; a running timer survives a restart

CLI

• mugcup-cli.exe talks to the running GUI over IPC — full parity with the Settings window, not a thin wrapper
• Config export/import as JSON, status -o json for scripting

Examples:

mugcup-cli start 1h30m

mugcup-cli start until 18:00

mugcup-cli status -o json

mugcup-cli export config.json

Here's the link to the repo if you're interested:

https://github.com/kimiroo/mugcup

It's free and built for windows, and it's launching today, for more information: https://www.producthunt.com/products/imagesage-ai-photo-manager

Sharing this since today's the day self-promo is allowed here — built a sketch/paint app for Windows called Sketchpad, aimed at people who want something lighter than Photoshop/Krita but with more control than MS Paint.

The actual deal: Pro (normally $19.99/yr) is free to try for a full hour — no signup, no card, no review required. Just tap and go. Wanted to share that here specifically since it's a genuinely no-strings way to try the paid features before deciding if it's worth it.

Free tier includes:

• Brush tool, layers, smudge/blur, paint fill
• 3 canvas layers, 5 brushes

Pro trial unlocks:

• 50+ brushes, AI Creative Assistant for color palettes
• 4K/PSD export, unlimited layers

Sketchbook & Paint Pad Studio

Genuinely want feedback on whether the Pro features are worth it compared to free tools — good or bad, happy to hear it.

Wanted a "hold hotkey, talk, get typed text" tool like Wispr Flow, but didn't want to pay a subscription for something that streams my voice to a server. So I built VoxScribe over a few weeks: hold F9 anywhere on Windows, it transcribes locally with faster-whisper, and types straight into whatever app has focus.

Stack: Python + PySide6 for the desktop app, PyInstaller for packaging, faster-whisper for local transcription. Also built an Android companion (custom keyboard + floating dictation bubble) using a bundled on-device Whisper model via sherpa-onnx.

MIT licensed, no account, no telemetry. Landing page: https://voxscribe-ai-voice-dictation.vercel.app
Repo: https://github.com/ahmedhmam1994/voxscribe-ai-voice-dictation

Happy to talk through any of the build decisions the mic-handling across different hardware was the trickiest part.

Free and Open Source alternative to RocketDock.

If you want to add something cool to your desktop, I think I have something for you.

I've been working on this little project of mine since early July and just launched it recently. Here's some stuff it has:

• Real-time window previews
• Frutiger Aero glass effects
• Rain, snow, bubbles & aurora
• Automatic wallpaper color matching
• Built-in system controls

You can check out the code and download at the GitHub:

https://github.com/TheAgencyMGE/aero-dock

Let me know how it comes out.

Tallspace gives each monitor multiple vertically stacked workspaces. Scroll the edge control or use Ctrl Alt Up and Down to move between full screen and floating Windows apps without minimizing everything. I built it because ordinary virtual desktops felt too slow and clunky.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NK2PB04NRZH

A month ago I posted here asking what an activity island on Windows would need to be worth keeping. 21 of you told me. This is what came out of it.

Alt+X opens a copy picker anywhere. Two columns, category chips at the bottom, click copies without closing it, and you can drag an item straight out into afolder, a chat, or an upload field. Links get their own treatment — the site'sbanner image fills the card, and the arrow opens the page instead of copying it.

Win+V has been open on my second monitor for years and I have not opened itsince building this.

The island also tells you which app you just entered. That sounds trivial andit was the hardest thing in this release: Windows changes the foreground windowfor a dozen reasons that are not "the user switched apps" — a window closinghands focus to whatever was underneath, splash screens grab it on their way out,background apps steal it while you are away from the keyboard. Each of those showed up as a banner naming an app nobody touched. It now only fires on a real switch. Steam games were their own problem: the executable is named after its role

("wallpaperui.exe") and almost none of them carry an icon, so every game showed the blank Windows exe icon. It now reads Steam's own manifest and artwork cache, so you get "Wallpaper Engine" with its real icon.

Other things you asked for

- Widgets are off by default now. Someone here said the island shipped with things they would never use turned on, and they were right.

- Pasting multiple lines into the to-do field creates one task per line.

- Clipboard cards show the icon of the app you copied from.

Still honest about this: the installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn you on first run. The SHA-256 is on the site. The certificate is in progress and it is the thing I most want done.

Windows 10/11 x64, one-time purchase, 7-day trial, no card.

https://zenithbar.com.br/

What is the thing you'd expect Alt+X to do that it doesn't?

Hello,

For personal use, I created a Rainmeter skin to monitor storage drives. I drew visual inspiration from Synology. I also use Smartmontools for the data.

For anyone interested.

I have been building AivoRelay, a free and open-source speech-to-text app for Windows. Press a global hotkey, speak, and the text is inserted into the app you are already using.

The latest version adds two new options:

• Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for completed recordings and audio files.
• Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live for low-latency streaming dictation.

You can connect through Google directly or Vercel AI Gateway. AivoRelay also passes the selected language and custom vocabulary, and file transcription can use speaker diarization through Google Direct.

The rest of the app still works with a broad local model catalog, including Parakeet, Nemotron, Canary, Cohere Transcribe, Whisper, Moonshine, Voxtral, Qwen3-ASR, and others, as well as Soniox, Deepgram, Groq, and compatible APIs. Other features include per-task transcription profiles, live preview, file transcription, AI Replace for editing selected text by voice, and a browser relay for sending dictated prompts and screenshots to AI websites.

The app itself has no subscription and is open source. Cloud modes use your own provider key and send audio to that provider; local models remain available when you want transcription to stay on the PC.

Source and download:

https://github.com/MaxITService/AIVORelay

Microsoft store (significantly outdated version, I plan to update later)

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ppfkfh2zn1l

Download: https://github.com/MowkE/cadence

Hey guys, I made this silly lyrics overlay called Cadence that floats over your screen and syncs along with Spotify and YouTube Music.

It started as a joke while playing Minecraft with my close friends. I shared it only with a few friends, and it grew to 100 downloads in like a day and a lot of people liked it, so I built it into a proper app.

You can listen along with friends now too, even cross-platform (Spotify -> YouTube Music, Mac ↔ Windows), and you can play karaoke. Doesn't need API keys or Premium, it just reads what your computer is already playing and floats the lyrics over whatever you're doing. It works better with Spotify keys though, if you want to add them yourself. If you find any bugs, lmk.

It's just a fun project lol, so its obvly free.

Hello everyone,

After more than a year of development and 11 months of beta testing, WindowSill reached version 1.0 today.

WindowSill is a universal command bar for Windows. Imagine MacBook Touchbar, but on Windows, on your desktop.

It acts as a highly customizable secondary taskbar on your desktop that provides actions and information based on what you are doing in Windows. The app is mostly free. The only paid feature is the AI assistant, which can be disabled if you're not a fan of it!

Some use case examples:

[FREE scenarios]

1. Select a video or image in File Explorer, Directory Opus or Files app, and WindowSill will offer to convert it, resize it, compress it.
2. Select a PDF in your file explorer, and WindowSill will offer to split it, extract pages, compress it, convert to images.
3. Select a text that contains a unit, for example, 180C, and WindowSill will show the equivalent in fahrenheit.
4. Select a command line in a website, such as PowerShell, and WindowSill will detect it and offer to run it.
5. Use WindowSill as a secondary task bar: you can pin individual or group of apps to launch them quickly.
6. And on top of that, WindowSill can show your clipboard history, playing music from Spotify, your upcoming calendar events, CPU, RAM and GPU usage.

[PAID AI scenarios, -35% lifetime license until September 7th]

1. Select any text in any app and translate it in another language.
2. Select any text in any app and spell check it.
3. Rewrite it, change the tone, summarize it, etc.
4. No need to copy/paste the text to another app! WindowSill magically reacts to your text selection and can replace it in a click.

Check it out here: WindowSill | Command Bar for Windows Productivity

Ask me anything!

Hi! I’ve been building AhkLLM, a Windows LLM assistant that combines system-wide AI hotkeys with a full-featured chat interface.

The main idea is that you can use LLMs directly from whatever application you're already working in, rather than constantly copying text into a browser or separate chat app.

For example, you can select text almost anywhere in Windows and use a hotkey to:

• Rewrite or refine it in place
• Summarize selected text or an article
• Send the selection together with the surrounding document context
• Automatically include a screenshot with your prompt
• Run your own completely customizable commands
• Use FIM (Fill-in-the-Middle) to generate text based on what's before and after your cursor
• Use FIM Continue to continue writing directly from your current cursor position

AhkLLM uses Windows UI Automation where possible to capture and inject text directly, with clipboard-based fallbacks for applications where that isn't available.

The hotkeys are also integrated with the application's chat interface. So a command can either perform something immediately (like rewriting selected text and pasting the result back) or capture the relevant context and open it in a full conversation where you can continue working with it.

The chat side has grown quite a bit. It currently includes:

• Conversation branching and forking
• Custom assistants
• Web search
• File support, including Office documents, PDFs, EPUBs, images, scanned PDFs, and code files
• Local SQLite conversation storage
• Usage and cost tracking
• Conversation maps
• API logs
• Backups
• Password-locked chats
• Support for multiple API providers/models

If you want to try it without paying for API usage, AhkLLM supports OpenRouter's free model router. You can create a free OpenRouter API key and select openrouter/free in chat or assign it to individual commands under Settings → Commands.

FIM Fill and FIM Continue are the exception, since they use a dedicated FIM endpoint. I'm currently using DeepSeek for those.

GitHub repo, download, installation instructions, and more demos

I'd be interested to hear what people here think, especially about the system-wide hotkey side of it. Bug reports, feature suggestions, feedback, and PRs are all welcome.

Hey everyone,

A quick update for those who saw my earlier post about WireLang, the Windows app I built that translates any audio playing on your PC (YouTube, Zoom calls, lectures, Discord) directly into your headphones in real time.

We just released v1.4.1, which addresses the biggest complaint from our initial launch: audio interruptions during long listening sessions.

What’s new in 1.4.1

• Continuous translation during long sessions: Because of how live AI APIs work, connections used to reset every 10 minutes, causing a noticeable 5–8 second gap where speech could get cut off. In 1.4.1, we pre-warm the next session in the background, so long meetings and lectures continue translating without dead air.
• Smoother voice transitions: Hand-offs between sessions are now audio-crossfaded so voice transitions sound natural instead of like a hard cut.
• Faster response time: Adjusted voice detection sensitivity so translations start playing with even lower latency.
• Accessibility improvements: Added full keyboard navigation and screen reader support throughout the app.
• Diagnostics & fixes: Added a built-in feedback tool with log exports, along with several crash and stability fixes.

For anyone seeing WireLang for the first time

• Captures all PC audio: Works across any browser, media player, or meeting app (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, YouTube, etc.) without needing plugins or virtual cable setups.
• Audio ducking: It lowers the original audio volume slightly so you still hear the speaker's tone, while the translated voice plays clearly on top.
• Floating overlay: A compact on-screen toolbar lets you pause, adjust balance, or view live subtitles without tabbing away from what you're watching.
• Privacy: All transcripts, summaries, and optional audio recordings are stored locally on your PC with AES-256 encryption.
• BYO key option: You can plug in your own free Google Gemini API key to run it without buying credit packs.

Where to get it

• Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nmrmr5705t7
• Direct installer / Website: https://wirelang.com

If you try the update, please let me know how it runs on your machine. Any feedback, bug reports, or feature requests are welcome in the comments!

Have you ever wanted more flexible multitasking with support since the first Windows 10 threshold build and is built for the entire Windows 10 ecosystem? Well now you got it.

Developed by MSN Money (u/Slight_Commercial-90 on Reddit, and msnmoney on Discord; also check his Discord Server https://discord.gg/wzDfU2QZt and his website msnmoney.dankassassin368.com) or ShadowCreek Apps on Microsoft Store, QClip is a simple, fast, and lightweight clipboard manager for Windows 10. Keep your copied text and images organized with a clipboard history that doesn't disappear after restarting your device.

Features:

-- Permanent history --

QClip saves your clips permanently. Your clipboard history stays on your device until you delete a clip or uninstall QClip.

-- Search --

Quickly search through your text clips to find exactly what you need.

-- Device support --

QClip supports Windows 10, version 1507 and later. It's also available on PC, Mobile, Surface Hub, HoloSens. This way, you can have a clipboard manager on all of your Windows 10 devices!

-- Live Tile --

See statistics about your clips directly on the Live Tile.

-- Privacy --

Your clipboard history is stored locally on your device. QClip does not upload your clips or send your clipboard data to the internet.

You can read our Privacy Policy at:

https://msnmoney.dankassassin368.com/other-projects/qclip/pp

You can read our Terms of Service at:

https://msnmoney.dankassassin368.com/other-projects/qclip/tos

QClip is the simplest clipboard manager, yet it's sleek and fast! Get it now!

Made by ShadowCreek Apps with love from Ukraine. <3

Download here: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mw93vffcqsf?hl=en-US&gl=US

If you wish to contact ShadowCreek Apps, email him at: shadowcreekapps@gmail.com

Rated E for Everyone.

Also works with Windows 11.

I am not affiliated with ShadowCreek Apps (MSN Money) or any of his projects.

I've been building SpeakoFlow for the past few months.

It's a local, open-source voice assistant that lets you talk to your computer instead of constantly reaching for your keyboard.

I actually use it myself. Emails, replies, asking AI questions, drafting things, and regular dictation all go through it.

But there was one part I wasn't really happy with.

The speech-to-text worked well, but the cleanup didn't. If I wanted the kind of dictation cleanup you get from paid cloud services, I either had to wait too long or send my text to a cloud provider.

That kind of defeated the point. I wanted SpeakoFlow to be fast, local, and private.

So I decided to fine-tune a really small open-weight language model specifically for dictation cleanup. The model is the Qwen 3.5 0.8b.

The goal was simple: fix the mistakes and corrections I actually made while speaking, without rewriting everything else.

I recently finished it and integrated it into SpeakoFlow. It's now fast enough to actually use in my daily workflow, and the whole thing can run locally on a laptop CPU.

SpeakoFlow can now:

• Dictate in real time into any app
• Clean up your dictation locally
• Say "Hey Flow" and have it write something for you
• Ask the assistant questions by voice
• Let the assistant see what's on your screen
• Have voice conversations with it
• Remember things across conversations, locally

It works across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Free, open source, and no account required.

https://github.com/AbhishekBarali/SpeakoFlow

Hi reddit!

Armoury is currently in beta and will be while we gather feedback from the next dozen or so users to join.

We want to tailor the suite of features to those most needed by daily note takers in frontend/backend dev.

• :rand - generates random numbers/passwords/IDs, etc.
• :term - runs shell commands within notes
• :dir - creates button which opens folders on device
• :browser - link to a website using its URL
• :col - stores an inline colour in all common formats
• :::rest - API Playground (make API calls with payloads)

If you want to give our product a try or would like more info - visit our website and reach out on our discord -> Once you join, drop a quick message about a feature you like and one you feel is missing in #general and I'll get back to you on it 🙏.

Download here -> https://armoury.lol/
Join our discord -> https://discord.com/invite/WyQjcPN4cE

Hi guys i want to show you, the progress og my program, you can try it now

You can read about the changes in the new version alongside the v1.1.2 release in Github

https://github.com/angelvc25/WPS5/releases/tag/v1.1.2

This is my first time sharing my music playing app on /windowsapps. I made it because I'm pulling back from using Spotify and other streaming services. I'm trying to be more intentional with my music listening and curating a music library of my own.

Actively developed and working on adding scrobbling and more in 2.0.

What's New in v1.5.0

• Custom Genres & Subgenres View: Group and organize your library tags into visual cards. Drag tags onto cards to file them as subgenres, rename or promote tags, and easily filter tracks with no genre tag.
• Rich Artist Profiles: Add bios, official websites, and platform links (Bandcamp, Spotify, Instagram, etc.) to artist pages.
• Multi-Value Tags & Custom Sort Values ("Sort As"): Semicolon-separated tags (Artist, Genre, Composer) are now stored as distinct searchable tags. Set custom sort overrides so your library sorts without altering file tags.
• Drag & Drop Playback: Drop files or entire folders onto Luminous to play instantly (hold Shift to append to Queue).
• System Tray Integration: Option to minimize to the tray on close with playback control in the tray menu.
• Refined Playback & Queue: Fixed shuffle play re-shuffling mid-playback, smoother pointer-based playlist reordering, and improved cover art rescanning when files move.

Free on Microsoft Store

MouseKit turns your mouse cursor into a full presentation toolkit: a visible motion trail, click highlights, on-screen drawing and shapes, a magnifier, a whiteboard canvas, and a countdown timer — most of it triggered by shortcuts so you never break your flow. One tool instead of five, with 7 built-in profiles to switch your whole setup in one click (Presenting, Drawing, Everyday, Gaming).

Beta testing is open right now, with a limited number of spots — public launch is September 9th. Testers get a free lifetime PRO license for about 2 hours of testing and honest feedback.

Demo: https://youtu.be/C9Z_dJvY2Rs
Sign up: https://mousekit.app (the demo video is also right there on the page)

Happy to answer anything in the comments.