Open and write
Launch Shard and the cursor is already blinking. Type a note or a task, hit send, done. No menus, no friction, nothing between you and the thought.
Shard
Ship the LP today
post task
Post
Quick capture for Obsidian
Quick capture, straight to your vault.
Shard is the fastest way to get a note or task into Obsidian from your phone. Open, type, send — it’s saved as Markdown in your vault, even offline.
Free on the App Store.
Write a post and hit Post — watch it land in today’s daily note on your desktop, as plain Markdown.
Daily/2026-06-08.md
# 2026-06-08
- Morning walk, felt good (08:14)
- Reading: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (09:02)
Your notes, not ours.
Shard never stores your notes. Every capture is written straight into your own Obsidian vault — and nowhere else.
Plain Markdown, forever.
Everything is standard Markdown in your vault. No proprietary format, no lock-in. Open it in anything.
Always within reach.
Capture works offline. Your notes are written into the vault the moment it’s reachable again.
Shard Free on the App Store. Features
Lives in your vault
Writes plain Markdown straight into your Obsidian vault — iCloud Drive, Obsidian Sync, or on-device. It even reads your Daily Notes and Periodic Notes settings so entries land in the right file.
Daily/2026-06-08.md
# 2026-06-08
- Stand-up notes (09:30)
- Idea: ship the LP today (14:12)
- [ ] Email the designer
Works offline
No network needed. Shard writes straight to the copy of your vault on your device, so capturing works exactly the same with or without a connection.
saved · offline
Tasks, on your phone
Point Shard at one task file and run it from your pocket — complete, edit, add, and set due dates, all as plain Markdown checkboxes in your vault.
Book the venue
Draft the agenda Jun 10
Send invites
Also on your Mac
One hotkey away, in any app.
Press the hotkey and a capture bar drops over whatever you’re doing — your browser, your editor, a PDF. Type, hit return, and it’s in your vault as plain Markdown. The bar vanishes, you never left the page.
⌥ Space by default — remap it in Settings
Download for Mac
macOS 14+ · free
Quick capture for your Obsidian vault.
Free on the App Store.
No account · Shard never stores your notes