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Always-on-top Mac scratchpad, menu bar toggle, and exact diff

Every DockTXT feature ships in the free Mac build. This is the full floating notepad — not a teaser list behind a paywall.

Always-on-top floating notepad

DockTXT lives above full-screen apps and across desktop Spaces. Pin it to the left or right edge and it stays in reach while you work.

Menu bar text scratchpad

Toggle the drawer from the menu bar extra or with ⌘⇧P. Hide collapses to a thin edge tab; your text stays put.

Auto-saving Mac scratchpad

Scratchpad and diff panes persist locally as you type. Work survives crashes and reboots — no Save dialog, no iCloud account.

Exact character-level diff

Compare Text A and Text B character by character. Case-sensitive mismatches highlight in red — built for API keys, tokens, and near-identical strings.

Strip & JSON tools

One click strips trailing spaces and leftover line breaks. Another pretty-prints JSON with two-space indent.

Offline and private

Native SwiftUI + AppKit. No analytics, no sync account, no network. Near-zero memory and minimal battery drain.

App chrome you will actually use

DockTXT is a menu bar text scratchpad and a floating drawer, not a hidden agent. Here is the real interface.
  • Menu bar extra — Title “DockTXT” with a plaintext icon. Menu: Open / Hide Drawer (⌘⇧P), Dock Left, Dock Right, Center Vertically, Pin / Unpin, DockTXT Support, Quit DockTXT.
  • Drawer header — Drag grip, Scratchpad / Diff / Our Apps tabs, Left, Right, Pin or Unpin, Hide, and a red Quit control. Narrow widths collapse actions into an overflow menu.
  • Scratchpad tab — Undo, Redo, Copy, Paste, Cut, Clear, Strip (whitespace), JSON (pretty-print). Status bar shows character count out of 25,000.
  • Diff tab — Text A (Base) and Text B (Compare) editors plus a result panel: Exact Match (green) or Mismatch Detected (red) with character counts.
  • Peek tab — When hidden, a 22×110 pt edge handle stays on screen: open chevron, drag grip, and a small quit control.

Limits that stay honest

Plain text only, up to 25,000 characters per pane. Toggle shortcut is ⌘⇧P. Drawer width is 380–800 points. No iCloud, no accounts, no telemetry.

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