A panic button for your momentum. Save your work state and pick up exactly where you left off.
Website: https://akakika.com/breakpoint/
Download: Latest macOS .dmg
You're in the zone. Multiple tabs open. Code editor full of half-finished thoughts. Clipboard has that one thing you'll need later.
Then life happens — meeting, outage, interruption, brain fry.
You close your laptop. Hours later you open it again and... where were you?
Most apps save files. BreakPoint saves momentum.
Trigger BreakPoint from the menu bar or with Cmd + Shift + Escape. It captures context and turns it into a structured Doom's Moment — a clean handoff you can reopen in Markdown, Apple Notes, or Obsidian.
Coming back feels like a continuation, not a restart.
- Trigger — menu bar click or global hotkey
- Capture — apps, windows, clipboard, screenshot OCR, local project context, Pieces memory
- Generate — Pieces QGPT first, then optional AI fallback (Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter)
- Export — send to any combination of File, Notes, and Obsidian
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| ⚡ One-action capture | Menu bar or Cmd + Shift + Escape |
| 🧠 Pieces + MCP memory | Workstream context and ranked memory search |
| 🤖 Multi-provider AI fallback | Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter |
| 📝 Four generation modes | Normal, ADHD, Code Mode, Extra |
| 📤 Multi-destination export | File, Apple Notes, Obsidian vault |
| 📓 Obsidian mode | Optional output templates for vault-friendly markdown |
| 🏷️ Search tags | Custom hashtags merged into generated output |
| 📋 Last Capture menu | Copy text, copy path, reveal in Finder |
| 🔒 Local-first | Your data stays on your Mac |
- Swift + SwiftUI — native macOS menu bar app
- Vision — screenshot OCR
- Pieces OS — REST + MCP long-term memory
- Ollama / OpenAI / Anthropic / OpenRouter — AI fallback providers
- Apple Notes + Obsidian — optional export destinations
- Download the latest
.dmg - Open it and drag BreakPoint to Applications
- Launch BreakPoint from Applications
- Grant Screen Recording and Automation permissions when prompted
Properties uses a fixed tabbed window:
| Tab | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Capture | Generation mode |
| Obsidian | Enable Obsidian mode + output template |
| Export | Destinations, export folder, vault path, search tags |
| AI | Enable AI generation + fallback provider |
| Pieces | Pieces OS REST + MCP URLs |
See HOWTO.md and FEATURES.md for details.
git clone https://github.com/aka-kika/breakpoint.git
cd breakpoint
xcodebuild -project BreakPoint.xcodeproj -scheme BreakPoint \
-destination 'platform=macOS' -derivedDataPath ./build build
open ./build/Build/Products/Debug/BreakPoint.appRun tests and build from source in HOWTO.md.
./scripts/notarize-dmg.shRequires a stored notarytool keychain profile (defaults to autopilot-codex).
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Cmd + Shift + Escape |
Create Doom's Moment |
| Left-click menu bar icon | Create Doom's Moment |
| Right-click menu bar icon | Open menu |
- Local-first capture and export
- No telemetry or analytics built in
- Screenshots and clipboard stay on your device
- Cloud AI providers are only used when you configure them
- HOWTO.md — setup, export, troubleshooting
- FEATURES.md — full feature reference
- RELEASE_NOTES.md — version history
KIKA — Built for the moments when life interrupts flow.
- Website: https://akakika.com
- Twitter: @Kika_Loren
MIT — open source. See LICENSE.
Built with ❄️ by KIKA
Last Updated: June 4, 2026