Valet Notes

iPhone, iPad & Mac

Park your notes until you know where they go.

Valet Notes is a scratchpad with four spaces for quick writing. Leave a note there as long as you need. When you know where it belongs, send it on or archive it.

Try Valet Notes on TestFlight

The public beta is for iPhone and iPad, through Apple’s TestFlight app. The Mac app is in private testing.

The Valet Notes drawer at the top of a MacBook screen, with four colored spaces side by side Meeting notes in Valet Notes on a landscape iPad, centered at a comfortable reading width A Markdown note with a heading and a list in Valet Notes on iPhone

A place for notes in between

Not every note needs a home yet.

Some writing only needs to last a day or two. Picking a folder and a title for each one takes longer than writing it down.

  1. Write it down.

    Open a space and start typing. Notes are Markdown, with headings, lists, and checkboxes.

  2. Leave it parked.

    Start with four named spaces, each in its own color, and add more when you need them. Your spaces sync between devices with iCloud.

  3. Send it on.

    Send a note to Drafts, Apple Notes, or Obsidian. Send tasks to OmniFocus, Things, Todoist, Reminders, or NotePlan. Or archive it.

A note titled Thursday with a short list of gift ideas, on iPhone
Write in any of your spaces.
The Commands list on iPhone, with Send to Drafts, Send tasks to OmniFocus, Send to Apple Notes, and Archive note
Commands lists every action for the note.
The Send Tasks sheet on iPhone, ready to send four tasks from Task Inbox to OmniFocus
Send tasks, then archive the list.

On Mac

A drawer at the top of your screen.

Move the pointer to the top edge of the screen and scroll down, or press Control–Option–Command–Space. Your spaces open side by side over whatever you’re working on. Press Escape to close the drawer. It stays out of the Dock.

The first two spaces of the Mac drawer, Scratch and Meeting notes, with archive, preview, copy, and settings buttons in each header
The first two of four spaces in the Mac drawer.

Also in the app

Small things that help.

Automatic archiving

Spaces you haven’t touched in 14 days are archived for you. Choose 7 or 30 days, or turn it off.

Browse the archive

Archived notes are dated Markdown files. Search them, copy them, or restore one to an empty space.

Share to a space

On iPhone and iPad, share a web page or selected text into any space from the share sheet.

Widgets and Shortcuts

Show a space on your Home Screen, or read and add to spaces from the Shortcuts app.

Try Valet Notes.

Join the public beta on iPhone and iPad through TestFlight.

Try Valet Notes on TestFlight