Pin a note to one Affinity document and it shows only on that document. Switch to another file and it's gone — back to where it belongs the moment you return.
You've got several Affinity documents open at once — a logo here, a layout there, a photo edit in the next window. Revision notes pile on the desktop and bleed across every file you switch to. The one tweak that belongs to THIS layout is lost among the rest, and the note you needed is never on screen with the document it's about.
Tack a note while a document is open and it binds to that file. TackNote reads the document name from the Affinity window title — and ignores the changing zoom % — so the note knows exactly which file it belongs to.
Choose at tack time. Bind the note to just this document, or let it cover all of Affinity. One quick pick when you make the note, and it stays that way.
Open another document and the note hides. Come back to the one it belongs to and it returns on its own. No clicking, no managing — the note follows the file you're in.
Affinity is a Deep-tier integration — TackNote scopes per document using the window title, with the zoom % stripped so the note stays bound as you work. It supports the new all-in-one Affinity and the v2 apps: Photo, Designer, and Publisher.
Bind a note to "this document" or "the whole app." Document-scoped notes hide on every other file; whole-app notes ride along across all of Affinity.
Switch documents and notes appear and disappear on their own — no clicking, no managing. They follow the file you're in.
Notes, voice memos, and transcripts live encrypted on your Mac. No cloud, no account. Our only analytics is an anonymous version number, sent once on first launch.
Record a revision note hands-free while designing, keep an export checklist with a live "N of M" tracker, or sketch a quick mark.
Affinity does not answer AppleScript for its open document, so the approach that works for Photoshop is unavailable. TackNote reads Affinity's window title instead and parses the document name out of it, which sounds fragile and is the reason the parser is specific rather than generic.
Affinity puts its open document inside angle brackets in the window title. That is the preferred key, because it is unambiguous even when the rest of the title changes.
An Affinity title carries a trailing zoom, like @ 63%, which changes constantly as you work. If that rode along in the key, a note would come unstuck the moment you zoomed. TackNote removes it before matching.
The new all-in-one Affinity and its single .af format, plus Affinity Photo 2, Designer 2 and Publisher 2 with .afphoto, .afdesign and .afpub. Each ships a different bundle identifier, and all of them are recognised.
Where a title carries no document at all, TackNote does not guess. It falls back to scoping the note to the Affinity window rather than binding it to something that might be the wrong file, because a note on the wrong document is worse than a note on the app.
"The revision note shows up on the right document — right where the work is — not lost on the desktop."
Yes — the new all-in-one Affinity and Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher 2 are all supported.
Yes. TackNote ignores the zoom % in the window title and stays bound to the document, so the note holds as you zoom and pan.
Yes. Choose "whole app" when tacking and the note shows across Affinity instead of binding to a single document.
Yes. Notes follow the Affinity window wherever it is, including across multiple displays.
Yes — a 7-day free trial, no credit card required. After that, a one-time $24.99 license unlocks TackNote on up to 3 computers.
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Every note is sealed with AES-256 encryption the moment you write it — the key lives in your Mac’s Keychain, never on a server. Switch on iCloud sync and your notes are encrypted on your Mac before they travel through your own iCloud. Apple holds the keys to that sync unless you turn on Apple’s Advanced Data Protection, which makes it end-to-end encrypted and readable only on your devices. No accounts, no trackers, no servers we control. Not even we can read your notes.