When Your Brain Needs a Laundry Basket
Modern life is basically an endless stream of information, things to worry about, random ideas that show up at inconvenient times, and Very Important Things™ you absolutely cannot forget.
Sure, you could go old-school and write everything down in a notebook, on a sticky note, or on whatever scrap of paper happens to be nearby.
Great plan—until:
“Wait, where did I write that down?”
“I swear it was here somewhere…”
“Oh. Cool. I left my notebook at home.”
New problems call for new tools.
I’ve tried plenty of note-taking and to-do apps, and eventually came to one conclusion: simple really is better.
You can build the world’s most beautiful system with folders, categories, and 47 carefully curated tags… and then one day a thought comes along that fits none of them. So what now? Force it into a category? Create tag #48?
I’m tired just thinking about it.
Sometimes what you really need is a laundry basket for your brain.
Just toss your thoughts in.
Then, whether you’re on your iPhone, MacBook, or iPad, you can pull up the list whenever you want. Throw away what no longer matters, remind yourself of what does, and organize things later if you feel like it.
Attention is a limited resource, and probably one of the most valuable things we have. There’s no reason to waste it trying to keep every loose thought floating around in your head.
The solution is pretty easy to find.
(Especially if you remember which app you’re currently reviewing.)
One last thing: I recently ran into a bug and emailed the developers about it. They fixed it quickly and followed up once the update was live.
A genuine thank-you to the team for being so responsive.
Sure, you could go old-school and write everything down in a notebook, on a sticky note, or on whatever scrap of paper happens to be nearby.
Great plan—until:
“Wait, where did I write that down?”
“I swear it was here somewhere…”
“Oh. Cool. I left my notebook at home.”
New problems call for new tools.
I’ve tried plenty of note-taking and to-do apps, and eventually came to one conclusion: simple really is better.
You can build the world’s most beautiful system with folders, categories, and 47 carefully curated tags… and then one day a thought comes along that fits none of them. So what now? Force it into a category? Create tag #48?
I’m tired just thinking about it.
Sometimes what you really need is a laundry basket for your brain.
Just toss your thoughts in.
Then, whether you’re on your iPhone, MacBook, or iPad, you can pull up the list whenever you want. Throw away what no longer matters, remind yourself of what does, and organize things later if you feel like it.
Attention is a limited resource, and probably one of the most valuable things we have. There’s no reason to waste it trying to keep every loose thought floating around in your head.
The solution is pretty easy to find.
(Especially if you remember which app you’re currently reviewing.)
One last thing: I recently ran into a bug and emailed the developers about it. They fixed it quickly and followed up once the update was live.
A genuine thank-you to the team for being so responsive.
Show more
Deceptively simple, extremely useful
How many times have you wished that you could simply tell Siri to remember something for you? A number, a name, a book or restaurant someone recommended, or one of those fleeting, creative ideas that will be gone in 10 seconds if you don’t write it down? But having to retrieve the phone, open an app, create a new entry, type information, and save… too much friction, doesn’t get done. Capture is the solution. I like using it hands off with Siri. It’s beautifully simple.
Show more
WatchOS Broken Complication
The complication, which is supposed to show how many notes are in your Inbox, does not ever update. It checks the count when you first add the complication, but that number never changes. Have contacted the developer but no response.
Folders folders folders… where are they?
An incredible app. I use it daily I think haha. And huge props to the dev for making it lifetime purchase. Would be huge if we had a folders option. Or line breaks. Something. I’ve even emailed the dev about this without a response. Please consider this haha
This app is unbelievable.
There are countless apps out there, even native apps, that will do what this app does and a whole lot more. However, none of them do so with such beautiful simplicity, efficiency, and efficacy. To top it all off, it offers a lifetime purchase at a price that is less than it is worth.
