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TomTrove.Every day, a little smoother.
Work, learn, live. All smoother. TomTrove is a personal assistant built on your own notes: in any app, select what you don't get to explain it, polish what you wrote with one key, and turn meeting notes into minutes. It works from what you gave it, and shows which notes it used.
Five steps before. One now.
Making sense of an email or wording a reply well should take seconds.
- 1Copy the text
- 2Switch to ChatGPT and open a new chat
- 3Paste it, then explain the background again: who the client is, what the quote was
- 4Wait for the answer, tweak it
- 5Copy it back and paste
The result appears right in the app you're in. No need to explain the background: it looks in your knowledge base and shows which notes it used.
One key, in any app
No switching windows, no pasting text into a chat box to ask again.
They need the quote by Thursday and sound a bit rushed. Reply today.
Explain
Select a message someone sent you: see what it means, the tone, what they want, and a few suggested replies.
Polish
Write what you want to say and press once. Pick natural, formal or casual, and it replaces your text in place.
Panel
Clipboard history, quick replies and your notes. Search, press Return, and it pastes. Clipboard history works without an account.
Lease · clause 7: give 30 days' written notice to move out.
Grounded in your notes, not made up
Explain, polish and plugins pick the few relevant notes from your knowledge base each time. What isn't there doesn't get invented.
Getting notes in
Write a note, paste a long text and have it split, add a web link or a PDF / Word / Markdown file, or just drag it into the Mac window.
Sources shown
When your knowledge base is used, the result lists which notes, so you can check.
Newest wins
When an old and a new note cover the same thing, the newer one is used.
About me and house rules
Who you are, who you talk to, the tone you like, and rules like "no exclamation marks with clients". Polish follows them.
Install what you need
Plugins add actions below your explain and polish results. Install them from the Plugin Store in the Mac app; before installing, you see exactly what data each one can read.
Q4 report due Friday · owner: Lina
Work Assistant
Turn meeting notes into minutes, reply to emails, pull out to-dos, write status updates. Names, projects and numbers come only from the text and your notes.
I led a team of five and cut our release cycle from six weeks to three.
Job Hunt
Select a job posting: tailor your resume points, write a cover letter, prepare for the interview. Experience comes only from your notes; gaps are marked.
Pay the $800 deposit by Friday. $25 for each day late.
Life Assistant
Bills, contracts and notices in plain words: what to do, by when, and what it costs. Polite replies to landlords and businesses.
Order before 10 a.m. and it arrives the same afternoon.
Delivery policyStore & Brand
Reply to customers, write posts and talk to partners for your store or brand, in your brand voice. Prices and policies come only from your notes.
Language Learning
Learn as you go: learning points in every result, sentences and words you meet become review cards, and unnatural phrasing in what you send gets flagged.
Plugins on iPhone and the web are coming.
Fix the error on the login page, then run the tests.
AI Remote
Direct the AI coding agent in your terminal away from the keyboard: press to speak, the AI turns it into a clear instruction in the input box, press again to send. Arrow keys pick options and switch sessions.
Built into the Mac app, off by default. All you need is a Bluetooth remote or page turner with 6 or more keys — a quick button setup and it's ready.
Choosing a remote and setup
- Round key: talk / done
- Center key: send, confirm
- Arrows: pick options, switch sessions
Illustrative animation, drawn after the real Mac app.
Where you use it
One account everywhere. Your notes, quick replies and settings stay in sync.
Mac
A menu-bar app plus a main window: ⌥E explain, ⌥R polish, ⌥V panel, and your knowledge base and plugins in the window. Free to download.
iPhone keyboard
Coming soonThe TomTrove keyboard works in any app: copy a message you got and tap Explain; tap Polish on what you wrote; insert quick replies with one tap. Switch languages with one tap; Chinese comes with pinyin.
Chrome extension
Coming soonChrome extension: select on any web page to explain, polish in any text box with one key.
Web
Manage your knowledge base and quick replies in the browser. With the Language Learning plugin, review here too.
The interface is in English, Chinese and French. Explain and polish work in English, Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Portuguese.
Your notes work for you, and only you
TomTrove reads your notes to be useful, so here is exactly where they go.
Stored on servers in Germany
Your account and notes are stored on Hetzner servers in Nuremberg, Germany. The model that searches your knowledge base runs on that same server, not with a third party.
Only what each request needs
When you explain or polish, only the selected text and the few relevant notes are sent to the AI providers (xAI, Microsoft Azure OpenAI). Never sold, never used for ads.
Sensitive details masked first
Passwords, card numbers and keys are masked before anything is saved, and replaced with placeholders before the AI sees them.
Plugins read only what you allow
Before installing, you see what data a plugin can read, such as the selected text, relevant notes or About me. Anything not listed is off limits.
Delete any time
Delete any note in your knowledge base and turn clipboard sync off. To delete your whole account, email us and it's done within 30 days.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes. The Mac app is a free download, and the clipboard panel works without an account. Signed in, the free plan includes 200,000 tokens a month, up to 20 explains or polishes a day, and up to 30 notes.
Can I try a paid plan first?
Yearly Lite, Plus and Pro come with a 7-day free trial, once per account. See the pricing page for prices.
Windows or Android?
Not yet. There's the Mac app (macOS 14 or later) and the web app; the iPhone keyboard and the Chrome extension are coming soon.
Does it need to be online?
Explain, polish and plugins need a connection. The Mac clipboard history is stored locally and works offline.
How is it different from just using ChatGPT?
No switching windows, no copy and paste: select in the app you're in, press one key, and drop the result right back. It also knows your notes, shows which ones it used, and doesn't invent what isn't there.
