Cortex ShelfThe smart notch for macOS.

Files, clipboard, notes, screenshots, search, focus, music and calls, living in the notch. Local, private, free, and asleep when you are not using it.

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The Cortex Shelf icon, a smiling black, white and tan dog on a turquoise rounded square.

Drop it on the notch

Drag files to the notch and they wait there, in named stacks, until you need them. QuickLook, export and the share menu, AirDrop included.

Shelf

A clipboard that remembers

Encrypted history with pins and search, named snippets, and a paste queue on ⌥⇧V. Format JSON, base64 or slug a clip in place.

Clipboard

Notes with backlinks

Quick capture on ⌥⇧N, markdown, checklists and a graph of [[backlinks]]. Locked notes open with Touch ID.

Notes

Search everything with ⌥Space

One palette over your shelf, clipboard, notes and the text inside your screenshots, read on the Mac with OCR.

You're on air

The notch shows who has your microphone or camera open, mutes the mic on ⌥⇧M, counts down to the next meeting and turns its link into Join.

Calls and calendar

Idle means idle

Collapsed and untouched, the island runs no animation and no timer. Measured, not promised. No account, no telemetry.

Privacy

Little notch. Big ideas.

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