Tot - Your tiny text companion

Tot

Version History

Tot 2.0

August 2025

New Features

  • Custom Smart Bullets:
    • Assign symbols or standard Emoji to act as Smart Bullets
    • Create up to eight custom smart bullets via Settings > Appearance
    • Assign Custom Smart Bullets to Quick Key slots for instant access
  • Text Dividers:
    • Eight divider styles to choose from via the symbol picker
    • Assign text dividers to Quick Key slots for easy use
    • Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Minus to add a new divider
    • Dividers can be cut/copy/pasted at will
    • Uses Markdown horizontal rules
    • [Yay Funk_Shui & Stragen!]
  • Automatic indents:
    • Lines that begin with a bullet or Smart Bullet will automatically indent text that's wider than the window
    • The Cmd-[ and Cmd-] keyboard shortcuts can be used to indent any selection
    • Lines that begin with a space will use that for indentation, otherwise tabs are used
    • Works with plain text: great for writing in Markdown [Yay Gruber!]

Improvements

  • Improved text handling & bug fixes:
    • Paste as Plain Text can now strip Markdown and works better with rich text
    • Fixed a bug where bold stuck around after creating newlines [Yay Nathan!]
    • Improved handling of styling information while using drag & drop
    • Fixed a styling bug when pasting Smart Bullets in plain text mode
    • Fixed a big bug when opening links beginning with “HTTP”
    • New "Selected Dot" action for Shortcuts [Yay pseudometa!]
  • Updated User Manual:
    • Removed Twitter links because screw those guys
    • Updated for new features and settings
    • Added information and links for advanced users

macOS Improvements

  • Updated Settings:
    • Settings now open in their own popover / window
    • Settings re-designed for improved clarity and feature discoverability
    • Control: New option – invoke Tot using Both Icons for menu bar and Dock
    • Appearance: New vibrant background option, dot configuration, app icons
    • Behavior: Floating window, follow mouse, disable escape key
    • Overview for apps on iOS and watchOS
    • Better help links and support site access
  • Improved Editing:
    • Typing completions: Turn on Edit > Spelling & Grammar > Check Spelling While Typing + Correct Spelling Automatically
    • Smart Copy/Paste now stays disabled across launches [Yay Dustin!]
    • Added menu item for Remapping Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Window, Dock, and menu bar:
    • Added a setting to show selected dot color in menubar [Yay Tom!]
    • Better handling of smart icons (now works with all app windows)
    • Improved restoring window state when using menu bar and smart icons
    • Tot will only enter full screen mode when using Dock or Both icons
    • Tot can now appear over full screen windows
    • Fixed issues with icons stuck in Dock [Yay Ilia!]
  • Fixed issues using Cmd-1 to 7 on Czech keyboards [Yay Roman!]
  • Improved handling of page margins when printing [Yay Dan!]
  • What’s New video no longer shows in Now Playing

iOS Improvements

  • New main menu (⋯) item:
    • Access to new Settings
    • Bulk operations for Copying/Clearing/Replacing all text
    • Export operations for Sharing/Saving/Printing
    • Export works with selection or full text (if no selection)
    • Quick access to User Manual
  • Greatly improved keyboard input and status bar:
    • Re-designed to be more reliable on iPadOS
    • Two new Quick Key slots for greater customization
    • Dot's meta info now includes relative time since last update
    • New, explicit undo/redo buttons
  • Updated Settings:
    • Appearance section with new icons, Quick Keys, Smart Bullets, dot numbers, color highlights
    • Better preview and options to adjust Text & Layou
    • Behavior section to configure new options
    • Advanced settings to restore automatic backups and export data
    • Overview for apps on watchOS and macOS
    • New What's New section to review recent Tot changes
    • Quick access to get support documentation
    • Credits and links to our other apps
  • Improved menu bar on iPadOS
  • Automatic backup: Saves to device when changes are detected
  • Improved touch response speed

watchOS Improvements

  • Simplified and more modern UI for viewing text:
    • Colorful backgrounds
    • Corner controls
  • New "+" button:
    • Better UI & wording for adding text
    • New “After First Line” option [Yay Joey!]
  • Added “⋯” button:
    • Shows summary for characters/words/lines
    • New Share button
    • “Clear All Text” button
3 new features, 17 improvements
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