1dea vs Tunnel.ai

Ideas never make an appointment. 1dea catches them in a second, files them without effort, and hands them back just when you had forgotten them. Made for people who write, teach, research or simply think: aphorisms, quotes, talk outlines, hypotheses, reading notes, projects. CAPTURE • From the app, from the Share button of any other app, or with Siri and Shortcuts ("Add an idea"). • Markdown formatting: headings, bold, italic, highlight, lists, quotes, code, links. • Formatting bar above the keyboard: code block, equation, highlight, bold, web link and backtick in one tap. • Code coloured by language: Python, Swift, SQL… more than 190 languages in all. • Automatic references: a DOI pasted into a note becomes a numbered call [1], and the full reference, in Nature style, is added at the end of the note. • LaTeX equations, on their own line or in the middle of a sentence. • The place where the idea came to you, added automatically if you wish. GET INSPIRED • A library of 22,539 ideas, in English and French: history, science, nature, film, music… to browse by category, by words or at random. • Take an idea: it opens in a new note, for you to rewrite in your own words and file in your own categories, with its source link. • Related ideas: those sharing the most words with the one on screen. FIND • Search by words, or by meaning: 1dea finds related ideas even when they share no word. • Coloured categories, tags and one-to-three-star ratings to filter in one tap. • Related ideas and links between notes to weave your thinking together. • A world map of your notes. • Ideas graph: a map of your notes and their links, in Tools. REREAD • Home Screen widget: a random idea, from the categories you choose, refreshed anywhere from every 15 minutes to once a day. • "Random idea" in Siri and Shortcuts as well. • Project note: gather several ideas into one working draft. MEASURE • Statistics by month, year, category and rating. • Vocabulary tools: how many words you have written, how many are still ahead of you (Chao2 estimator), and how varied your vocabulary is (Shannon entropy). SHARE • Copy or share an idea as a quote, with your signature. • JSON export and import of your whole library. YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS • No account to create: sync goes through your own iCloud, across iPhone, iPad and Apple silicon Mac. • Search by meaning and statistics are computed on the device. • The idea library is built into the app and works offline. For a reference, only the DOI is sent to doi.org to fetch its record. • Lock with Face ID, Touch ID or passcode. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases. In English and French.

## Description (4000 chars max) Tunnel.ai turns your train of thought into text, wherever you are, even when the train is in a tunnel. It is built to catch a thought the moment it lands, with as little friction as possible. Tap once and talk. Everything runs on your device, so there is no account, no cloud, and no internet needed after the first launch. Your audio never leaves your phone or Mac. CAPTURE WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR FLOW • Record over your music. Start a note without pausing your music, podcast, or call. Tunnel.ai captures your voice on top of whatever you are already listening to, so you can talk through a follow-up while the track keeps playing, then get on with your day. • Keep recording when you switch apps. Jump to your notes or calendar to check a name mid-thought and the recording keeps rolling, so nothing gets cut off. • Fully offline. Planes, trains, basements, dead zones. The model lives on your device, so a signal is never required. WHY ON-DEVICE MATTERS • Private by architecture. There is no server, so we could not read your notes if we wanted to. • No subscription. Nothing to renew, because there are no cloud costs to cover. WHAT IT DOES • Tap once, talk, tap again. Your words appear as a note. • Confidence highlighting. Words the model was unsure about show in orange. Tap one to correct it. • Custom dictionary and vocabulary. Teach it the names and jargon you actually use, once, so it hears colleagues, brands, and technical terms right. • AI Cleanup on supported devices. An optional on-device pass that fixes misheard names using your own word list. Still nothing leaves the device. • Audio kept with every note. Replay a recording, or re-transcribe it any time, for example after improving your dictionary. • Edit, copy, share, search. Transcripts are plain text, ready for wherever they need to go. Powered by open-source speech recognition (Whisper, via WhisperKit), accelerated by Apple silicon. Requires iPhone with iOS 17 or later. [iPhone listing] Requires a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 14 or later. [Mac listing] The transcription model is built in, so it works from the first launch with no download.