Jot by JADE is a legal reference and knowledge manager for barristers. Gather the cases, legislation, articles and materials you rely on, keep them organised, and cite them wherever you write. It runs at jot.lawlibrary.io.

Gather from anywhere

Paste a citation, upload a document, or capture a case straight from your browser. Import your existing library losslessly from Zotero, EndNote and other reference formats, attachments and all.

Organise into collections

Build curated collections and reference lists that hold both catalogue books and ad-hoc references: a case, an Act, a journal article or a website you cite but do not hold. Add your own notes, tags and metadata.

Read and annotate

Attach PDFs, read them in the same annotating reader used across the JADE suite, and search your whole reference library – text, notes and tags – privately to you.

Cite while you write

Insert citations directly into Microsoft Word or Google Docs, format in AGLC, and export to Zotero, BibTeX, CSL or Markdown for Obsidian. Your references go where your writing goes.

Programmable and yours

A personal API token opens a read API and an assistant (MCP) connector, so your legal library is available to your own AI tools. Everything is private to you and Australian-hosted.

Part of the JADE suite

Jot sits alongside The Law Library, chambers library software at lawlibrary.io; Conspectus, the litigation brief and court-book workspace at brief.lawlibrary.io; and the CPD Recorder at cpd.lawlibrary.io. Start at jot.lawlibrary.io.