AI text actionson your Windows laptop
Most product owners work on a corporate Windows machine, and most AI desktop tools never leave the Mac. Khint runs as a Windows system-tray app: one shortcut over Jira, Teams, Outlook or Word, a multi-monitor capture overlay, and a Memory of the day that stays in a local database on the PC.
The enterprise desktop
is still a Windows desktop
A product owner in a bank, an insurer or an industrial group rarely gets to choose the laptop. The refinement happens in a Teams call, the backlog lives in Jira in Edge, the specification is a Word document on a network drive, and the AI assistant that was supposed to help is a browser tab you have to copy into and out of. Khint is built for that machine: its three pillars, Agents, Capture and Memory, all run natively on Windows behind a single tray icon, and the parts that differ from macOS are documented below rather than glossed over.
A day on Windows, step by step
Six things that are specifically true of the Windows build.
Ctrl+Shift+K opens the palette over whatever you are in
Khint installs into the Windows system tray and answers one global shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+K. Select the paragraph you want reworked (a requirement in a Jira description, a rough note in Outlook, a message you are about to send in Teams), press the shortcut, and the palette opens on top of that window with the agents from your active pack. No second screen to arrange, no browser tab to keep alive.
The rewritten text lands back in the same window
Pick an agent and Khint pastes the result straight into the app you were already in. That is the whole point of a tray app: your specification stays in Word, your ticket stays in the browser, your reply stays in Teams. One exception is worth knowing up front, because it is a Windows rule and not a Khint choice: if the target app was launched as administrator, Windows refuses keystrokes from a normal app. Khint puts the text on your clipboard and tells you, so you paste with Ctrl+V.
Capture draws its own selection overlay, on every monitor
Windows has no system region-capture service to borrow, so Capturepaints its own full-screen overlay: one per monitor, each matching that monitor's own scaling, so a crosshair on your 4K display and a crosshair on the laptop panel both select the pixels you actually see. Drag a rectangle over a screenshot a developer pasted in chat, over a slide in a screen share, over an error dialog, and the text comes back selectable. Esc or a right-click cancels without capturing anything.
Memory keeps the thread of the day in a local database
Start a Memorysession in the morning and every capture, note and agent run lands in it. Khint keeps a compacted working state from those entries and can feed it to your next agent run, so a ticket drafted at 16:00 already knows what the 10:00 refinement decided. Sessions and their entries live in a local SQLite database on your PC and are never synced to Khint's servers, which matters when the entries quote an unreleased roadmap.
Your work tools connect from the same palette
The integrations page connects Atlassian, Linear, Notion, Slack and Gmail with the same credentials flow on Windows as on macOS. Pull a Jira issue or a Confluence page into the session to give your agents context, then push the drafted ticket back out: a refined item reaches Jira from anywhere without opening a browser tab. Claude Desktop can also read your active session through the bundled MCP server.
First run: expect one SmartScreen prompt
Khint v1 ships without a Windows code-signing certificate, so Microsoft SmartScreen shows its "Windows protected your PC" notice the first time you run the installer. Click More info, then Run anyway. It is a one-time prompt per machine. The installer is served directly from khint.app and scanned with Microsoft Defender and VirusTotal before each release, and code signing is on the roadmap for the next version.
What is identical, and what is not
Identical on both systems: the palette and its pinned slots, packs and agents, workflows of up to five steps, Capture and Capture & ask, Memory sessions with their compacted working state, the work integrations, and the bundled MCP server that lets Claude Desktop read your active session. Different: the capture selector is Khint's own per-monitor overlay on Windows instead of the macOS screenshot UI, which is also why copying text out of a screen share behaves slightly differently on each. Not yet on Windows: the PowerPoint Transform to diagram companion, which is macOS only. Everywhere, the privacy contract is the same one described in the privacy-first walkthrough: an agent sees the text you selected, plus your session context if you opted in, and nothing else.
Common questions
Which Windows versions does Khint support?
Windows 10 22H2 and later, including Windows 11. Khint installs as a system-tray app rather than a window you keep open: it sits next to the clock and opens its palette with Ctrl+Shift+K over whatever you are working in. The same build of Khint also ships for macOS 13 and later, so a mixed team can standardise on the same packs and the same shortcut regardless of who is on which machine.
I cannot see the Khint icon in my taskbar. Where is it?
Windows 10 and 11 hide newly installed tray icons in the overflow area by default. Click the up-arrow next to the clock, find the Khint icon, and drag it onto the visible part of the taskbar so it stays pinned. Right-click the taskbar, then Taskbar settings, then Other system tray icons also exposes the toggle. The palette shortcut works either way: the icon is only there for the menu.
Why does the result not paste into an app I launched as administrator?
Windows blocks a normal application from sending keystrokes into an elevated one, so if the target window runs as administrator the paste is refused by the operating system rather than by Khint. Khint detects this before injecting, puts the finished text on your clipboard and shows a notification, so you press Ctrl+V yourself. Relaunching the target app without administrator rights restores the automatic paste.
Is anything macOS only?
One companion feature is macOS only today: the PowerPoint Transform to diagram row, which turns selected slide text into an editable schema. Everything the three pillars are built on works on both systems: Agents and their packs, workflows, Capture with its own multi-monitor selection overlay, Memory sessions in a local database, and the work integrations (Jira, Confluence, Linear, Notion, Slack, Gmail). The bundled MCP server that lets Claude Desktop read your active session also runs on Windows.
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