Notes, tips, and updates from the Fresh Jots team.
The operator's companion to the dead-man's switch overview: every step to arm one on a note, by hand or by script, with the exact API requests, the JSON you get back, and every way it can refuse you.
Read moreMost alerts fire when something happens. The hardest failure to catch is the opposite — when something that should keep happening quietly stops. The dead-man's switch is Fresh Jots watching for that silence: a healthy script never emails you, a dead one emails you exactly once, and a recovery resets it automatically.
Read moreA good PR description is high-effort and instantly lost in GitHub. Paste one prompt into Claude Code, then run /write-pr-description-to-freshjots <pr-url>: it reads the PR via the GitHub CLI, crafts a structured description, stores it in a pr_descriptions folder, and — the point — writes a durable local backup before the upload, so you never lose it and can gh pr edit --body-file straight from disk even if Fresh Jots is down.
Read moreEvery "write to Fresh Jots" guide assumes you write the integration. With an AI coding agent, the agent writes it for you from one prompt. Here's what's generic (a plain REST call), what's just delivery (the slash command or hook), and how to point Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, or any agent at Fresh Jots — plus the one API idiom every from-scratch reimplementation gets wrong.
Read morePaste one prompt into Claude Code. It walks you through Fresh Jots sign-up, verifies your token, writes a slash command file, and bootstraps the session_summaries folder — end to end. After setup, /summarize-session-to-freshjots posts a curated digest of any session on demand.
Read moreThe zero-install Fresh Jots + AI workflow: make one ordinary folder in the web UI, then just tell Claude Code to write a plain note into it. No hook, no slash command, no script on disk — one sentence and a curl.
Read morePaste one prompt into Claude Code. It walks you through Fresh Jots sign-up, verifies your token, writes the hook script, merges the settings.json hooks block, and bootstraps the claude_sessions folder — end to end. Under five minutes, zero manual setup.
Read moreFor readers who already have FRESHJOTS_TOKEN exported. Two Claude Code hooks plus one bash script auto-archive every /clear, /compact, and window close into a dedicated ai_sessions folder on Fresh Jots, with a 50-file rolling local stash as a fallback.
Read moreA spin-off from Write a note from any project, focused on cron jobs and systemd timers. The killer feature: pair any of the patterns with append_deadline_hours and Fresh Jots emails you when the job stops running. Three flavors: bare curl in crontab, a ~30-line bash wrapper that captures exit code + stderr tail + elapsed time, and systemd timers with native EnvironmentFile= + Persistent=true.
Read moreA spin-off from Write a note from any project, focused on C. Three flavors: hand-rolled libcurl + minimal JSON escaping in ~120 lines of C99, libcurl + cJSON when you want to parse the API's error code field, and a vendor-HTTPS-stack variant for MCU / RTOS contexts. Includes a pthread heartbeat with pthread_cond_timedwait-driven shutdown, CMake and Make integration, and FFI hooks for Go / Rust / Python.
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