yester<dev> captures the work behind the work, implementation progress, technical decisions, experiments, screenshots, recordings, code, links, and notes, without breaking your focus. Then it turns those moments into a clear, publishable report.
Works offline · Your data is yours · No account required
You implement features, compare approaches, test ideas, review changes, read logs, collect screenshots, and make decisions all day long.
By the time someone needs the story, the context is scattered across browser tabs, chat messages, screenshots, commits, and memory.
The result: the work is difficult to explain, repeat, hand off, or turn into useful documentation.
A tray-first workflow with global hotkeys. Every capture is timestamped, tagged, linked to the source app, and appended to your session log, automatically.
Name the activity you're working on. yester<dev> keeps a folder and timeline for it.
Screenshots and screen recordings ⌃⇧S, notes ⌃⇧N, code ⌃⇧D, and links ⌃⇧L.
Add quick notes and tags in seconds, while the context still exists.
Select and order captures across Sessions to build one clear publishing list.
Review the report in your browser, then publish to HTML, Confluence, Notion, or Slack.
Global hotkeys capture the current state of work without opening a heavy tool or interrupting your flow.
Every capture lands in the session log with a timestamp, source app, tags, notes, and media references.
Tags turn scattered capture moments into a navigable work trail. Create a missing tag right from the capture dialog.
Screenshots, recordings, snippets, links, and notes live in one report, with what happened and the path that led there.
Export clean HTML, push directly to Confluence Cloud or Notion, or send the report into a Slack thread.
Session post-its stay local and are deliberately excluded from every exported report.
Draw, point, and write directly on screenshots and video frames. Highlight the exact interface element, value, behavior, or change that matters. For video, pin each annotation to the precise moment where it belongs. The explanation stays attached to the thing being explained.
Circle details, draw arrows, underline content, and place explanatory text directly on the image.
Draw and write over video frames so changes, behavior, and important details are immediately understandable.
Choose exactly when each video annotation appears and disappears, so the explanation arrives at the relevant moment.
Turn a work session into a structured update: what was done, what changed, what was learned, and what remains open.
Capture milestones, interface changes, implementation decisions, tradeoffs, and progress as the feature takes shape.
Preserve the alternatives, reasoning, visual references, and code context behind an important decision.
Share clear reports that show progress, decisions, visible changes, and next steps.
Package the context another developer needs to continue the work, without a long meeting.
Keep reproduction steps, screenshots, recordings, code findings, and hypotheses together in one timeline.
Capture, organize, annotate, and create HTML reports entirely on your computer. No account or connection is required for the core workflow.
Sessions are ordinary Markdown and media files stored in a folder you choose. There is no required service account, proprietary cloud, or hidden upload.
Nothing is sent to Confluence, Notion, or Slack until you choose a destination, preview the report, and publish it. Private post-its are never included.
yester<dev> turns development work into documentation while the context is still fresh. It works offline, and your data stays yours. Free during the beta.