Wisen vs ProjectBoard

Most notes apps are just storage. You write something, it disappears into a list, and you never think about it again. Wisen works differently — it reads what you write and brings the right ideas back at the right moment. Echo finds threads across your notes and turns them into questions worth sitting with. Not generic prompts — specific questions built from what you actually wrote. Sometimes it connects two notes from different weeks and surfaces a pattern you hadn't noticed. Each session feels less like a review and more like continuing a conversation you forgot you started. Pulse delivers a daily brief built entirely from your recent notes. What you've been thinking about, what's still unresolved, what questions are worth returning to. It also drafts LinkedIn posts, emails, and more directly from your notes — your voice, your ideas, not a generic AI output. WisenChat lets you ask anything about your notes. What did you write about this topic last month? What's still unresolved? What decisions are you avoiding? It answers from your actual notes with citations — so you always know where the insight came from. Knowledge Map shows how your notes connect visually. Tap a link to open a cross-note Echo session between two related ideas. The map grows richer the more you write. Spaced repetition tracks which ideas you've genuinely learned and which ones need revisiting — at the block level, using a modified SM-2 algorithm. Mastered content is excluded automatically so you're never drilling what you already know. Everything is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before leaving your phone. AI features use OpenAI — only the content you actively engage with is ever processed, and none of your notes are used to train their models. Import PDFs, scan handwritten notes, drop in images and voice recordings. Works in 16 languages. No account required to start. The longer you use Wisen, the more useful it becomes. Your notes compound into real knowledge instead of disappearing.

ProjectBoard — projects, tasks, notes, and files in one place. Everything a project needs lives together: the tasks, the notes, the files, and the conversation. No more scattering one project across four apps. PLAN YOUR DAY, NOT JUST YOUR LIST Drag a task onto the calendar to block time for it. Let Plan My Day pack your tasks into the gaps you actually have free — it reads your real calendar, so it schedules around meetings instead of pretending they don't exist. Start a focus session and work a block at a time. TASKS THAT MATCH HOW YOU THINK Subtasks for the steps. #tags across projects. Saved smart lists for the views you return to. An Inbox that catches anything you haven't sorted yet. WRITES THE BORING PARTS FOR YOU — ON DEVICE Smart Fill turns a sentence into a task with the right date, project, and priority. Your Daily Brief tells you what matters this morning. Smart Inbox Triage sorts what piled up. Search understands what you meant, not just what you typed. It runs on your device. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN A genuine Mac app — split view, menu bar commands, keyboard shortcuts throughout. iPhone and iPad. An Apple Watch app for checking off work from your wrist. Home and Lock Screen widgets you can tap to complete a task. Shortcuts and voice for capture without opening anything. FILES WHERE YOU EXPECT THEM A ProjectBoard folder in Finder and the Files app, syncing both ways. Open documents straight in from Finder, or share them in from any app. Annotate with inline markup. BUILT FOR WORKING TOGETHER Share a project, chat alongside the work, and watch tasks and notes update live as your team moves. START FASTER Seven built-in project templates, or build your own with tasks that schedule themselves relative to your start date or deadline.