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Rook is a native Mac notes app for the code you write, paste, and keep around. Built for anyone who copy-pastes code, prompts, snippets, or AI outputs. Fast, free, local, and private. Syntax highlighting for 17+ languages, rich text, code blocks, and markdown rendering. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Gemini CLI can save into Rook through the optional, open-source Rook MCP Server. Each AI gets its own inbox. No signup. Everything lives on your machine.
Every dev has a chaotic scratchpad full of unformatted code snippets and AI dumps. A local-first Mac app with an MCP server to pipe outputs from Cursor or Claude Code straight into dedicated AI inboxes is a brilliant workflow upgrade.
Quick question: Since AI streams can fill up an inbox fast, how does long-term organization look? Does Rook support global search or auto-tagging to keep snippets easily searchable over time?
I built Rook because I wanted a place to take code notes for things like commands, snippets, configs, and AI outputs, and nothing existing fit that well.
I usually defaulted to Apple Notes since it’s fast and local, but it doesn’t support code blocks. Today, with AI in coding, I realized I needed more space for notes around what I was building.
When working with AI, there is often a high degree of cognitive offloading, where too much of the thinking gets externalized into tools and generated output. That output tends to be transient, useful in the moment but not always revisited or effectively lost after a session.
Rook is my attempt to build a notes app for the AI-native coding era, where that cognitive context can be captured and revisited in a single dedicated place for code notes.
It works whether you’re coding traditionally or using AI tools. You can optionally connect AI clients via MCP so they can write directly into it instead of copy-pasting.
Rook is free, fully native on Mac, offline by default, and everything stays on your machine. The MCP server is also open source.
Rook is completely free, and the first 100 people who sign up today will get a special lifetime discount as part of the Product Hunt launch.
Would love to hear feedback and any feature requests!
“Notes app for code. Save directly from AI via MCP”
Rook was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 15 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #40 on the daily leaderboard. Rook is a native Mac notes app for the code you write, paste, and keep around. Built for anyone who copy-pastes code, prompts, snippets, or AI outputs. Fast, free, local, and private. Syntax highlighting for 17+ languages, rich text, code blocks, and markdown rendering. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Gemini CLI can save into Rook through the optional, open-source Rook MCP Server. Each AI gets its own inbox. No signup. Everything lives on your machine.
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Every dev has a chaotic scratchpad full of unformatted code snippets and AI dumps. A local-first Mac app with an MCP server to pipe outputs from Cursor or Claude Code straight into dedicated AI inboxes is a brilliant workflow upgrade.
Quick question: Since AI streams can fill up an inbox fast, how does long-term organization look? Does Rook support global search or auto-tagging to keep snippets easily searchable over time?