Hejour
A calm macOS notebook where every day is a page
Hejour is a calm, day-based notes app for the Mac. Instead of folders, tags, and a sidebar you have to maintain, every note lives on a day — you open the app and today's page is already waiting. Meeting notes, todos, half-thoughts, links: everything goes on today, top to bottom, the way the day actually happened. Tomorrow you get a fresh page.
It started from a familiar frustration: every notes app becomes a graveyard. You build the perfect structure, write for three weeks, and six months later you're staring at hundreds of notes you never open again. The problem is the question every app asks before you can write: "where does this go?" Hejour removes the question. The answer is always today.
Finding things works the way memory works. Humans remember when, not where — so you search with one shortcut and every day you ever mentioned something lines up, or you open the calendar and jump straight to when it happened. Finding a note feels like remembering, because that's literally what it is.
What makes it different:
- One page per day — no folders, no tags, no filing decisions, nothing to maintain
- Write to the future: type @ and leave a note on another day, where your future self will actually see it
- Unfinished todos carry forward on their own, with optional reminders
- Command palette search across every day you've ever written
- Quick capture from anywhere on your Mac with a global shortcut
- Routines and a calendar overview to see your days at a glance
- A real native AppKit app — instant launch, buttery typing, even a full Vim mode
- Snippets, code blocks, images, and text formatting when you need them
- Privacy first: your notes are files on your Mac, local-first with optional iCloud sync, no account, no server
- Touch ID app lock for what you write at 11pm
Who it's for: developers keeping a work log, founders juggling ten threads, journalers, and anyone who has ever written "figure out where to put this" inside their notes app. It's not a company wiki or a 10,000-note research vault — it's more like a good desk: everything from today is on it, and every evening it clears itself.
