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Freeze your thoughts
Free your mind
Press Ctrl+Shift+Space,
type what's in your head,
hit Enter. Done.

No editing. No deleting. No formatting.
Just your thoughts — exactly as they arrive.
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thawts capture window
thawts menu bar app

Two ways to capture

Menu bar app (macOS)

Lives quietly in your menu bar. Press Ctrl+Shift+Space from any app to open the capture window. No Dock icon. Zero distraction.

Terminal TUI (macOS, Linux, Windows)

Run thawts --tui in any terminal. Same capture-and-review workflow, anywhere you have a shell.

Your data, your device

Fully local

All thoughts are stored in a single SQLite file at ~/.thawts/thawts.db. No account. No cloud. Nothing leaves your machine.

Open source

MIT licensed. Read the code, fork it, or contribute at github.com/thawts/thawts.
~/.thawts/thawts.db
→ ship the new onboarding flow
→ call mom on sunday
→ look into that weird latency spike
→ refactor auth middleware before next release
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Built to stay out of your way

Features

Instant capture

Global hotkey brings up the capture window from anywhere. Type, press Enter, and you're back to what you were doing.

Search & review

Flip to review mode to browse, search, edit, or delete your thoughts. Find anything fast with full-text search.

Local SQLite

One plain SQLite file. Back it up, sync it yourself, or just leave it alone. No proprietary format, no lock-in.

Terminal TUI

Full capture and review experience in the terminal. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows — wherever you have a shell.

Menu bar app

The macOS GUI lives in your menu bar — no Dock clutter. Auto-hides when you click away. Signed and notarized.

Private by default

No account, no telemetry, no network requests. Your thoughts never leave your device.

Install

Homebrew

# macOS GUI app
brew install --cask thawts
# CLI/TUI (macOS + Linux)
brew tap thawts/tap
brew install thawts

Direct download

Grab the latest binary for your platform from GitHub Releases.

GitHub Releases