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- make your won montaigne Apr 16, 2026 Hi everyone! anton here. I’m making a new tool called sublimated and it has a very unique feature that allow anyone to backup apple notes in real time with versioning an so on. it can be useful just for safety(you don’t want to loose something), or collaboration(you have a note you want t share and get comments form people) or you can make your own montaigne-like site from the folder. Demo is here Tool is available online and on the appstore . it’s still early days and i think setup process is a...
- april updates Apr 9, 2026 hi everyone, wrote last month how I quit my day job to focus on building my own products. quick updates from me: I’ve just released new app called popssh . if you are developer it’s a nice little app to connect to multiple ssh servers. I think it’s already better than most of the apps I known off. it’s an app for very specific technical audience, so most of you should ignore it. but you can still help me a bit by upvoting me on reddit here . I’ve also related bunch of changes this past month to:...
- good and bad news Mar 6, 2026 hi everyone! I just quit my day job. so good news - I will be able to make way more progress with Montaigne and all my other apps like and countless macOS apps. bad news - you will receive a bit more emails from me! I’m planning to write way more essays on my blog publish way more videos on youtube release few more apps and services for macOS, iOS and web! so please do stay with me! and if it’s too much - especially for those who are members of my other newsletters - I do apologize! so things...
- tinydot updates Jan 26, 2026 Hi everyone, Last week of December I launched first version of tinydot - tool to publish websites from macOS finder. Some updates after first month: - 87 users registered - 117 total sites created - 2600+ total pages published I personally ported over 10 of my own sites and I enjoy product so far, especially because I can use it with other tools I like - Zed editor and Claude Code. Last week iOS app was released. It’s here . So you can now use any editor you want on iPhone and make updates to...
- need your small help. got a problem with stripe Jan 10, 2026 Hi everyone, I have a small ask from you. In October I wrote to you about new service I’ve made called My goal was to allow people quickly support each other work with 0 platform fees(as opposite to Patreon, Gumroad etc). I wanted to make it for myself and maybe 100-1000 top. I think I had like 6 people making recurrent transactions each months (and I was working on new functionality for NGOs) to quickly accept donations with 0 fees. Unfortunately 2 not good things happened. This week I noticed...
- tinydot demo Jan 9, 2026 Hi everyone, Last week I wrote about new product called But I didn’t do demo here is one Some people already figure out bunch of things and even published a blog post like this Thank you Nicola! I already fixed several bugs that people found and few more will be fixed soon, but it’s already very interesting experience. I will soon make even more videos and demos. PS Next 4 days I have family time, but after that I’ll send few more emails. Excited about this one. PPS Thank you for everyone who...
- montaigne + websites Jan 4, 2026 Hi everyone, Few tings about Montaigne. I recently made few changes to make it a bit faster and also reduce cost. As always the goal to make it sustainable and I hope I can run it for many more years. It’s been 3.5 years now. In other news I’ve made one more service to make websites called It comes with its own macOS app and soon IOS. How does it work and what is different from Montaigne: montaigne only published online from Apple Notes while new services creates websites from folders/files in...
- updates from anton oct 22 Oct 22, 2025 Hi everyone, I didn’t write any updates here since June 25. What I did recently: - last week I launched new tool to showcase who you support(creators etc). it’s called It’s like full version of patreon, where not only creators have profile page, but people who support creators have first class page. So eg if I know you I can see who you support and discover new people I might follow too. It also allows people to get support with 0 fees from the platform(so better than patreon in that way). If...
- updates from anton Jun 25, 2025 Hi everyone, In the last email I’ve wrote about new macOS app I’ve made. It’s called alto.index and available on the app store . It allows you to export Apple Notes, Calendar events, Reminders, iMessage conversations into markdown. Website is here It’s a paid up, but apparently it’s good - so far 26 people paid for it, which is very good for an app that is 3 weeks old. I think it’s already my most successful app in terms of value it brings. In other news, I’m working on a new iOS app for Apple...
- new macOS app to make apple notes AI ready Jun 2, 2025 Hi everyone, I’ve just released new app for macOS. it’s called alto.index and you can get it from the App Store . There are more details about it here but briefly: it’s a paid macOS application that allow you to export all your apple notes, iMessage conversations, contacts as markdown files on your filesystem(your data stays on your macOS). Why is it important? Because you can use any AI tool to interact with those markdown files. Eg I use Claude Code a lot and I’m able to use prompts/questions...
- new app for screenshots May 28, 2025 Hi everyone, If you have tons of screenshots on your Apple devices I’ve just made an app called alto.caps. It’s IOS app that syncs your screenshots to your online account And there you can search all screenshots by text, filter by date and categories(eg all screenshots of Apple Notes), it will also automatically have groups where similar screenshots will be just grouped. It’s mostly a tool for people like product managers and designers - but if it’s useful to you - let me know. Anton
- let's do something good together Feb 21, 2025 Hi everyone, Anton here. As some of you might know I’m originally from Ukraine. Almost 3 years ago russia launched full scale invasion of my home country. Almost 11 years ago russia started the war annexing Crimea and launching military operation in the east of Ukraine. So let's do something good together. Donate money to any Ukrainian nonprofit and I will personally match it. All you need is to make your donation and send me a screenshot and I will do my matching donation(and I will send you my...
- web clipper for apple notes Feb 21, 2025 Hi everyone, Anton here. I've just released Apple Notes Web Clipper Safari extension for macOS. You can find it here or just search for “Notes Web Clipper” in the App Store. It’s based 98% on Obsidian Web Clipper - - but all the pages with metadata will be saved to Apple Notes instead. Check out Obsidian clipper documentation - it’s really cool! If you were looking for an easy way to save structured text content from various web pages to the Notes - this might be useful to you. PS As a reminder...
- apple notes exporter Feb 14, 2025 Hi everyone, I’ve just released a new app for macOS that allows you to export Apple Notes to the HTML files on your disc. It’s available here . Export functionality costs $4.99. If you need to backup your notes - try it. PS If you paid for export functionality using alto.computer but want to use new app - write to me. PPS I also have a new blog with my observations on tech. Please check it here and subscribe if you want. PPPS Also if you like running - join my Strava club - lets give each other...
- new blog Jan 17, 2025 Hi everyone, Anton here. Today a bit unusual update from me. I started writing a new blog. It’s about topics that I’m thinking about a lot: software, sales, processes, cultural shifts and so on. It’s called anti-antihuman It just bunch of my reflections on tech industry and some trends I’ve seen over the past decade. Some quick links to the things I wrote: - - - - - If you like it - please subscribe to the mailing list. I also started subreddit - but it’s empty for now. Join too if you want. PS...
- montaigne and other products. year in review Dec 18, 2024 Hi everyone. Anton here. I thought I'd share some numbers with you. I think some of you enjoy those updates. montaigne.io - 3700+ users and 4K sites creates since the launch in 2022. To this day I think it’s still my most popular project. It also has highest number of paying customers(thank you!). But unfortunately I still failed to make it break even in 2024. It brings a bit of money, but less than my expenses running it. alto.daily - iOS app to track habits backed by Apple Reminders. I only...
- Montaigne is back Dec 9, 2024 Hi everyone, Apple just unblocked montaigne's account and publishing is back. If you made changes in the past few days - they should be synced now. If they didn’t sync - try to make any small change to the note and it should resync. Few notes: - this is first time ever(2.5 years running Montaigne) where I get Apple account locked. I think publishing was disabled for around 2 days. - this is the second time this year when publishing was unreliable. If you remember there was like one month during...
- Montaigne downtime Dec 8, 2024 Hi Everyone, Today Montaigne Apple account was locked by Apple. That means Montaigne server cannot receive updates to your Apple Notes. I just reach out to Apple support to unlock my account. They told me it can take a day for them to get back. Still not sure what would be the result. This one is an unexpected issue. Seeing it for the first time since starting Montaigne 2.5 years ago. As a workaround (and if you have macOS) please consider my other product It allows you to publish online...
- Discounts for montaigne and other apps Nov 23, 2024 Hi everyone, Till Dec 2 there are 30% discounts for some of the plans I have. Coupon is FRIDAY2024 for all of them. montaigne.io plans: - 30% of 20USD annual plan for custom domain. - 30% of 50USD annual start plan . - 30% of 120USD annual pro plan . recuremail.com plans: - 30% of 4USD monthly start plan . - 30% of 40USD annual start plan . alto.so plans: - 30% of 20USD annual plan for custom domain. - 30% of 78USD lifetime plan for custom domain. alto.computer macOS app - 30% of Apple Notes...
- Montaigne and friends updates. Nov 9 Nov 10, 2024 Hi everyone, I just launched yesterday small new product which I announced one year ago(originally called bubbleboi) but never finished. It works in a similar way to Montaigne(which allows you to publish Apple Notes online). My new product is called public.me . It allows you to have microblog using iMessage. My page is here It’s like twitter but I can post on my devices without actually opening twitter. So you send a iMessage to hi@public.me <mailto:hi@public.me> address and it’s gets published....
- Montaigne/Alto updates. Sept 27 Sep 27, 2024 Hi everyone, Anton here. In the past two months I’ve release several macOS/iOS apps. Maybe they can be useful to you(and if they are, please leave a review on App Store). alto.computer - this is my main app. It allows you to publish your Apple Notes online(+ other things). It’s faster and more reliable than Montaigne. Please try it. It also allows you to backup your Apple Notes by exporting all of them to a separate directory as html files. alto.mail - my new macOS app that is extension of...
- Montaigne. September 5 updates Sep 5, 2024 Hi everyone, Anton here. Few updates from me. New app I’ve made a new iOS app. It’s called alto.calendar. You can get it here . It’s very good for sharing with your SO, family and friends when you are free or busy. It reads your existing calendars(which you select. Eg work one and personal) and creates new summary calendar. Eg “Anton Busy/Free”. It automatically creates events in this calendar based on your input calendars but without private details. So all events are “Anton busy” and it has 0...
- Apple Notes Exporter Aug 13, 2024 Hi everyone. Anton here. I just released first paid feature in Alto app. Apple Notes Exporter. It’s one time payment of $3.99. Video how it works Why is it needed? There are tons of stories like this online From time to time people lose their notes. So I made exporting functionality so that you can backup at least some information from the notes. Currently it exports notes to HTML format(with all the images, videos and files). If you try this tool and have some feedback - please tell me. Anton
- Montaigne. Aug 5 updates Aug 5, 2024 Hi Everyone, Anton here. I finally was able to port most of the functionality from Montaigne to Alto. See how to create new website from Apple Notes in 2 clicks If you didn’t have change before try alto macOS app You can create websites from Apple Notes, create Apple reminders in one click and many other things. I have bunch of demos here Longer term plan is following: 1. Alto is going to be in the beta for few more weeks. 2. After that I’ll add payments for custom domains. So you can still...
- Montaigne. End of July updates Jul 25, 2024 Hi everyone, Anton here. I didn’t send updates for a long time -> that was mostly because of the issues with recur.email newsletter service that I’ve used to send weekly updates. Bunch of spammers used recur.email to send emails and that damaged “reputation” of the whole service. So update number one: I’ve moved my newsletter from to It’s new domain, new landing page and better security - there is bot check now when people try to subscribe. Another update. I’ve made a lot of progress with Alto...