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Keep your notes off your screen share

You want your talking points in front of you during a call, without everyone else seeing them. Hoverpad’s private notes are visible to you and left out of what others see.

The problem with notes and screen sharing

When you share your whole screen, anything on it is shared too: speaker notes, a negotiation limit, a reminder to yourself. Many people resort to a second monitor, printing notes or sharing a single window. Hoverpad lets you keep notes on the screen you’re sharing and stops them appearing in the share.

How it works

Hoverpad marks a private note’s window as protected using macOS’s own window privacy setting. You still see it. Screen sharing, screenshots and recordings in apps like Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams leave it out. Two ways to use it:

• Per note. Click the eye icon in a note’s top bar to hide that note from screen sharing.
• All at once. Turn on Hide All Notes from Screen Sharing in the menu bar and every note is private, which is a good default for presenting.

The home page has a live demo of the “what you see / what they see” toggle.

Test it before an important call

1. Start a meeting with yourself, or open a call with a friend.
2. Share your whole screen with a note open and marked private.
3. Ask the other person (or look at the recording) to confirm the note isn’t visible.
4. Check again after any macOS or video-call app update.

What to know

Most video-call apps respect this protection, but a few screen capture tools may ignore it, and macOS and the apps themselves can change. Always test with the app you use, and don’t treat it as a security boundary for secrets such as passwords. For notes you want locked from people at your desk too, Hoverpad Pro can lock a note behind Touch ID.

Good notes to keep private

• Talking points and speaker notes while you present
• Pricing and negotiation limits
• Reminders of names, numbers and follow-ups during an interview or sales call
• Anything you want to glance at but not broadcast

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