Copy it twice to keep it.

What happens when you copy

1. Notchi reads the clipboard if it holds plain text of 2 to 1,500 characters. Items a password manager marks as concealed or transient are skipped.
2. Text that looks like a password, key, token or card number is skipped before anything else runs. The rules are on Passwords and keys.
3. A classifier decides what the text is: a task, a date, a question, an idea, a personal detail such as an address or order number, or something copied only to paste.
4. If it is worth keeping, the closed notch shows To Save or To Ask.
5. Copy the same text again, a moment later, to confirm. A line that names a time goes to Reminders with the time filled in; anything else goes to Notes, or to your Markdown folder if you chose one. A question opens a new conversation and asks it.

If you do nothing, the hint goes away and nothing is saved.

On-device or Jev

By default the classifier runs on your Mac and the copied text does not leave it.

Once you have added $1 or more to your Notchi Balance, Copy sensing can use Jev, a model by TypeSafe that runs on Cloudflare Workers AI. The text goes to our gateway and on to Workers AI; the gateway does not store it. Using Jev costs nothing. If a request fails, the on-device classifier answers instead.

Settings

Settings → Shortcuts → Copy sensing turns it off, keeps it on-device, or uses Jev. On macOS 15.4 and later, the system may ask whether Notchi can read the clipboard; if you deny it, Copy sensing does nothing.