# Clipfile, Jottle, Prexy, Notch & Deets

> Five small Mac and iPhone apps, each one keystroke away on the Mac

- Page: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/clipfile-jottle-prexy-notch-deets
- What it is: Desktop app, for productivity, also writing
- Made by: [Michael Shear](https://www.whatwemade.app/u/shearmds)
- Showcase: see how it was made, sometimes with a recipe to start from
- Website: https://mikeshear.com/coding
- Languages: English
- Tags: macos, ios, keyboard, reporting, swiftui
- Upvotes: 3, comments: 0

## About

Five small apps I built for my own work as a reporter, for Mac, iPhone and iPad (Jottle and Deets also run on Apple Watch). On the Mac each one is a panel you call up over whatever app you're in with Option and a letter. Clipfile (⌥L) is a read-later list that saves the whole article from Safari, so it can be read offline. Jottle (⌥J) is a notepad for a quick thought. Prexy (⌥P) tracks every story from pitch to filed on one board, and mirrors each note to plain Markdown files on disk. Notch (⌥T) is a keyboard-first client for Apple Reminders. Deets (⌥C) finds a contact by name from your Apple Contacts.

I made them because switching apps was where things got lost: a link I never saved, a thought I didn't write down, a call I meant to return. Each app does one thing, and on the Mac you type, press Return and you're back where you were.

They were written with Claude Code, starting in June 2026, mostly in SwiftUI. The apps began separately and later moved onto a shared Swift package for the panel, theming and the Mac license, and they also run together inside a single Mac app I use every day. The hardest parts were the things Apple makes awkward: a panel that appears over any app, syncing, and saving from browsers that the Mac App Store sandbox won't let an app talk to. So Notch and Clipfile also ship a direct-download Mac version outside the store, while the iPhone and iPad apps stay on the App Store.

## How it was made

- Claude Code, 90% of the work: Wrote most of the Swift code, tests and build scripts
- Stack: Swift, Cloudflare

## What you need to run it

- Platform: macOS, iOS / iPadOS (optional), watchOS (optional)

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