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Make better use of the text you keep.

Setup steps, practical workflows, and honest comparisons for notes, clipboard history, and the MacBook notch.

Your notes deserve a little more room.

Write rich notes in a full Mac workspace with tabs, split editing, pinned notes and themes. Switch to the notch without changing libraries. Try NotchPad for 14 days.

Keep the draft and the reference in view.

Use tabs and split editors in NotchPad to write beside a brief, compare notes and keep a checklist open. A practical guide to the Mac desktop workspace.

A quick thought and a working draft need different amounts of room.

Choose the right NotchPad view for the task: quick capture in the notch, longer writing in the desktop workspace, or a sticky beside a window. The same notes throughout.

Connect Claude or Codex to NotchPad

Save AI drafts as editable notes. Set up folders, permissions, and formatted output.

Keep a sticky note on a window or page

Choose where a note belongs, resize or stack it, and learn when its attachment returns after a restart.

How to find something you copied earlier on Mac.

Find earlier copies on Mac with Spotlight clipboard search or NotchPad. Learn setup steps, saved snippets, trial and license details, and what cannot be recovered.

Best MacBook notch apps in 2026: choose the job first.

Compare MacBook notch apps by the job you need: notes, clipboard history, captions, widgets, file shelves, media controls, or hiding the notch.

Paste vs Maccy vs NotchPad: which fits your day?

Choose a Mac clipboard app by workflow: NotchPad for notes and snippets, Paste for synced clipboard history, or Maccy for a lightweight keyboard-first tool.

Open the Apple Note you already have, from the notch.

Browse, search, and edit your existing Apple Notes from NotchPad. Learn setup, permissions, and how Apple Notes differs from NotchPad notes.

Say the thought. Keep the note.

Dictate directly into a NotchPad note with on-device Apple speech recognition. See setup, language downloads, microphone permissions and privacy.

Ghost Privacy: read your notes while you present.

Read talking points while presenting with NotchPad Ghost Privacy. Learn what capture exclusion does, how to check it, and when to lock notes instead.

Keep the useful text from your day within reach.

Keep work notes, copied links, and reusable replies near the app you use. Organize them into folders, attach stickies, and control AI sharing.

What happens to sensitive text in your clipboard history?

Understand what clipboard history stores, how NotchPad protects recognized sensitive text, and why ordinary local history is not all encrypted.

Keep work notes useful without keeping secrets everywhere.

Keep project notes useful without exposing sensitive details. Understand NotchPad note locks, local storage, Ghost Privacy, and AI folder sharing.

NotchPad 1.5: the original AI and rich-notes release

The historical announcement. For current features, see the release notes.