Glob for Mac
The guide to connected notes, synthesis, document imports and daily tools in the downloadable Mac app.
Glob for Mac is a workspace for notes you want to connect, revisit and develop. Write on a canvas, capture thoughts in a list, turn document excerpts into notes, and ask questions about selected material. The daily tools add tasks, check-ins, journal entries and reusable routines.
This guide describes the public 1.9.0-beta.2 Mac download. It requires macOS 26.1 or later and supports Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Start with installation and your first project.
Write and organise
- Canvas: navigation, selection, connections and return briefs.
- Note editor: titles, timestamped bodies, hashtags, lookups and brainstorming.
- Projects and Trash: switch workspaces and recover deleted notes.
- Ideas, search and clusters: capture first and organise related thoughts later.
Read your material together
- Synthesis: branches, project summaries, scopes, freshness and pinned edits.
- Ask Glob: general, contextual and historical questions.
- Prompt Architect: edit the instructions used by supported AI actions.
Collect source material
- Import Studio: file formats, extraction, OCR, duplicate review and chunking.
- Document actions: search, questions, item creation, networks and deletion.
- DataJars: named collections, capture destinations and proposed entries.
- Knowledge Browser: find records and copy one into a project.
Work through your day
- Tasks and habits: completion, dates, recurrence and check-ins.
- Prep lists: reusable checklists and reviewed improvements.
- Timers and flows: countdowns, timed logs and step sequences.
- Programs: turn a situation into reviewed support actions.
- Today and journal: moments, history and reflection cards.
- Meal estimates: food labels and editable estimates.
- Personal records: manual entries, patterns, experiments and decisions.
Keep control of the app
- Export and mirroring: supported project copies and readable files.
- Mac sync settings: what the public beta's account and passphrase controls actually do.
- Settings, updates, availability and limits, shortcuts and troubleshooting.
For another client, use Glob for Web or the terminal guide. For sign-in, credits and account access, use account help. Support is available at [email protected]; account and deletion questions go to [email protected].