A temporary ledge for everyday thinking.
Ledge is a small native scratchpad for iPhone and Mac. It gives notes, screenshots, links and loose ideas somewhere to sit for a while, then helps you send them to the right place when they are ready.
What it does
Ledge is a lightweight place to put the thing you do not want to lose, but also do not want to organise yet.
It can sit always-on-top on the Mac, ready for quick notes, screenshots, links, files and snippets of text. On iOS, the share sheet lets you send an article, post, image or passing thought straight to a pad. Each user’s notes live in their own CloudKit database, so the same ledges can be available across iPhone, iPad and Mac without adding another account.
The point is temporary capture. A ledge is not meant to become the whole knowledge base. It is the place before the place: somewhere to hold QA notes while testing an app, park a family reminder, collect links for a project, or jot down the shape of a business idea before it disappears.
How it fits into a workflow
Ledge works with Obsidian and file-based journals rather than trying to replace them. Notes can be sent into an Obsidian vault, copied into another app, dropped onto another window, or left to fade if they never become important.
Different pads can hold different contexts: one for QA, one for venture ideas, one for personal notes, one for whatever is currently scattered across the desktop. Ledge can also surface aggregate views of open to-dos and saved links across pads, so useful fragments do not get buried inside a pile of notes.
What makes it useful
- Native iOS and macOS apps, synced through each user’s own CloudKit storage.
- Always-on-top desktop scratchpads for quick capture while working.
- Drag-and-drop support for files, screenshots, text and links.
- Share sheet capture on iOS for articles, posts, images and ideas.
- Obsidian-friendly filing for notes that should become permanent.
- Aggregated to-dos and links across pads.
- AI-assisted grooming, including suggested to-dos, note pruning and lightweight organisation.
- Notes that fade over time, because not everything deserves to become permanent.
Status
Ledge is in development and already useful as a personal tool. The public page is a working template for now. Screenshots and a sharper product story will be added as the interface settles.