Complications and double tap
Start capture from the watch face or with a double-tap gesture. The Daily Log shows any day's notes on your wrist.
Apple Watch to Markdown
Speak it on your wrist. Find it in today's note.
MacroMark is a capture tool for people whose notes live in Markdown. Tap the complication, talk or type, and lower your wrist. The thought is added to today's YYYY-MM-DD.md file in iCloud Drive.
- Free, no subscription
- No account
- Plain-text daily notes
- iPhone + Apple Watch
A note before the thought cools.
MacroMark is built for the moment when taking out your phone is enough friction to lose the idea. The watch captures, the iPhone processes, and your notes folder gets one clean Markdown entry.
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Tap the complication.
Open straight into capture from your watch face, or double-tap to start your chosen capture mode.
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Speak or type.
Instant audio capture handles long, rambling thoughts. The keyboard button opens the watchOS text input for dictation or typing.
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Lower your wrist.
The capture is saved on the watch with its original timestamp and waits there until the iPhone confirms it's safe.
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Find it in today's file.
The iPhone transcribes, expands macros and appends the entry to that day's Markdown file.
Your notes, your files
Designed for vaults, not inboxes.
Captures go to plain text in iCloud Drive, or a folder you choose, so Obsidian, Logseq and any folder-based notes setup can read them. You can also send a capture to Drafts, Obsidian, Bear or Day One, or share it anywhere.
- One file per day, named
YYYY-MM-DD.md, instead of hundreds of tiny notes. - Timestamp style, separator and an optional heading are yours to set.
- Browse any day's captures on iPhone or in the watch's Daily Log.
- Every capture shows whether it was saved or needs attention, with a retry.
9:05 AM ## Standup - Shipped App Store metadata - Wire screenshot automation 11:20 AM Meeting follow-up - [ ] Send beta invite - [ ] Draft release notes 2:35 PM Idea: double tap on Apple Watch starts a durable audio capture.
An example daily file in the default format: time-only timestamps with a blank line between entries.
Nothing silently dropped
You can see where every capture is.
Each capture stays queued on the watch until the iPhone has processed it and the export has succeeded or is saved for a retry. If a transcription only partly works, MacroMark keeps what it heard and tells you, so you never get a half-saved note without warning.
- Status on every note: saved, pending, or needs attention.
- Replays, retries and reconnects never duplicate an entry.
- If iCloud Drive isn't available, the note waits and retries.
- Settings can write a test note to prove your save location works.
Verbal macros
Say the shape of the note.
Spoken trigger words turn into Markdown. Built-in macros cover headings, lists, tasks, quotes and code. Variables like {date}, {time}, {location} and {clipboard} fill in when the note is processed. Add your own, edit the defaults, or restore them anytime.
| You say | You get | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Heading Two | ## | Section heading |
| Task | - [ ] | Checkbox item |
| New Journal Entry | ## {date} at {time} | Dated journal heading |
| Timestamp | {time} - | Inline time |
| Dropoff | {location} - | Where you were |
| Block ID | ^id-{uuid} | Block reference |
| Backspace | {backspace} | Delete the last character |
Works with the rest of your Apple setup.
MacroMark uses Apple's own frameworks rather than a proprietary sync service, so your words stay in files you control.
App Intents
Start an instant or typed capture, open a daily log, or append text to today's note from Shortcuts and Siri.
WatchConnectivity
Captures and audio wait in a queue that survives restarts, and leave the watch only after the iPhone confirms them.
iCloud Drive
Markdown files stay readable, portable and easy to automate, organised by date in a folder you choose.
Coming in 1.1
Direct Send: straight from your watch.
After a one-time setup on iPhone, typed and dictated watch text can go directly to a GitHub repository, an HTTPS webhook, or both. Your phone doesn't need to be nearby. Phone and iCloud delivery stay the default, and audio recordings always go through the iPhone.
Apple Watch
Each note stays in the watch outbox until every destination you chose confirms it.
GitHub
Appends to
YYYY-MM-DD.md on your branch. A hidden marker in each entry stops retries from adding it twice.
HTTPS webhook
A JSON POST with a stable
Idempotency-Key, so your receiver can deduplicate.
Replies written to a GitHub .reply.md file can be read on the watch. Details are in the Direct Send guide.
Privacy stays plain.
No account, no analytics or tracking SDKs, and no selling of personal data. KinNoKi Labs doesn't run servers that receive your notes. The full privacy policy has the details.
Your notes
Captures, queued audio, macros and export status stay on your devices and in your iCloud Drive as they move through the capture queue.
Speech
Dictation uses Apple's Speech framework. Depending on language, device and network, Apple may process the audio to produce a transcript.
Location
Location is used only when a macro asks for {location}. Direct Send, if you turn it on, sends text only to destinations you set up.
Where MacroMark is now.
MacroMark is open source under the MIT licence. The source and the weekly devlog follow the work in public.
1.0 on the App Store
Released October 2026 for iPhone and Apple Watch: watch capture, daily Markdown notes, verbal macros, browsing by date, visible export status and Shortcuts actions. Free, with every feature included.
1.1 in testing
Direct Send to GitHub and webhooks, replies on the watch, a complication for pending and reply counts, and audio transfers that keep retrying until the iPhone confirms them.
Support
For setup help or privacy questions, email dan@kinnokilabs.com. Bugs and feature ideas are welcome as GitHub issues.
Make your Watch a Markdown button.
Free on the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch. Or build it yourself from the MIT-licensed source.