Current

Daily notes for Mac.

Write in today’s note, organize your work into streams, and scroll back through earlier days. Current saves your notes as local Markdown files.

Install CurrentSettings
brew install --cask iamrajjoshi/tap/current

Daily notes, grouped by stream.

Keep work and personal notes in separate streams. Each stream remembers your place and saves changes automatically.

Start with today's note.

Write meeting notes, add tasks, or paste text into the current day.

Today · Sun, May 3

08:47 Vendor review

- vendor review moved to Thursday

- ask Sam for the latest risk note

 

## Review

- [ ] read the contract diff

- [ ] send the renewal decision

One Markdown file per day.

Each stream has its own folder. Notes are stored by year and month.

~/Documents/current/streams/daily/2026/05/2026-05-03.md

Find earlier notes.

Scroll through a stream, choose a date from the calendar, or search across your notes.

Sat, May 2Contract reviewTwo tasks still open
Fri, May 1Renewal callRevised terms requested
Apr 20–30No notesExpand these dates
Older notesLoad as you scrollOr jump to a date

Markdown files on your Mac.

Current saves notes under ~/Documents/current by default. Open the folder to back up your library or edit a note in another app.

Choose a different folder in settings.Review conflicts when a file changes outside Current.
~/Documents/current/
├── .current-library.json
└── streams/
    └── daily/
        ├── .current-stream.json
        └── 2026/
            └── 05/
                └── 2026-05-03.md

Adjust the writing surface.

Set the editor font, text size, line height and column width in config.current. The same file controls your notes folder, history range and autosave delay.

View the settings reference
library-rootUnset, resolves to ~/Documents/current
font-size16
line-height25.6
autosave-delay0.55

Install Current on macOS.

Install with Homebrew or download the app from GitHub Releases. Current requires macOS 14 or later; releases are unsigned.

brew install --cask iamrajjoshi/tap/current
DownloadGitHub