Note vs Brief

Note-Due brings your notes and tasks together. Write a note, add tasks inside it, set due dates, and get reminded — all without switching apps. NOTES THAT DO MORE Rich text with bold, italic, highlights, checklists, and code blocks. Attach photos, scan documents, record voice memos, and embed video. Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger — handwriting can be recognised and converted to typed text. While you write or scroll, toolbars slide away so your words get the whole screen. TASKS BUILT INTO YOUR NOTES Create tasks inside any note, or add standalone tasks. Set due dates, priorities, and reminders. Quick Add understands natural language — type "call James tomorrow at 9am high priority" and Note-Due does the rest. Block tasks behind other tasks to map real dependencies. POWERFUL ORGANISATION Folders, subfolders, tags, and smart filters keep everything findable. Switch between Today, Upcoming, Overdue, All, and Inbox, and between list, agenda, calendar, and kanban layouts. Snooze tasks, pin notes, and search everything instantly. The Trash keeps deleted items until you're sure. INBOX AND FOCUS MODE Capture first, schedule later: tasks without a date land in your Inbox. When it's time to work, Focus Mode shows only today's tasks in a distraction-free view. SIRI, SHORTCUTS & SPOTLIGHT Add tasks, check what's overdue, or complete something with your voice or the Shortcuts app. Find notes and tasks from Spotlight search. BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN Designed for iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo. On iPad, see your notes list beside the open note, or open any note in its own window with Stage Manager. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your data lives on your device. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Optional iCloud sync keeps your Apple devices up to date using your personal iCloud — we never see it. ——— UNLOCK NOTE-DUE PRO — $9.99 ONCE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Apple Intelligence Extract tasks from a note, summarise long notes, and rewrite selected text in any style — all on-device. Your previous version is saved before every AI rewrite. Privacy Vault & Note Locking Hide folders behind Face ID in the Vault, lock individual notes, or require Face ID every time you open the app. Version History Every note is versioned automatically. Browse and restore any earlier draft. Power Tasks Recurring tasks (daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, yearly), subtasks, dependencies, and Apple Calendar sync. Advanced Notifications Morning daily digest, second reminders, quiet hours, custom lead times, lock-screen snooze, and custom sounds. Export & Import Export notes as PDF or HTML, or your whole library as a Markdown ZIP. Import Markdown and text notes from Bear, Obsidian, or Apple Notes, and tasks from Apple Reminders. Projects & Time Tracking Group notes and tasks into projects with live progress and due dates. Add time estimates to tasks and track real time with a built-in timer. PDF Annotation & Tables Draw on PDF attachments with Apple Pencil, saved per page. Insert editable grid tables into any note. Smart Scheduling Smart Schedule checks your task load and suggests the least-busy day and time. Kanban Board Manage tasks across To Do, In Progress, and Done, and drag cards between columns.

Brief is your calm command center for the things that actually need you. Your Mac reads your iMessages, finds the few that are real action items — a request, an appointment, a bill — and turns them into a clean review queue on your iPhone. Everything else stays noise. Every morning, Brief gives you a one-screen brief: today's weather, the headlines you care about, and what got caught overnight. WHAT BRIEF DOES Catches action items from your messages — tasks, calendar events, and payments. Casual chat, spam, surveys, and "all done" status pings are filtered out automatically. Tells tasks from events: "Can you call the dentist?" becomes a task; "I'll stop by at 9am" becomes a calendar event. A morning brief: weather for your zip, news on your topics, and an overnight catch-up — ready when you wake up. Tasks tab that mirrors your Apple Reminders lists, grouped Urgent / This Week / Next Week / Future, alongside what Brief caught. A real calendar that shows your Apple Calendar events in their own colors. Three filter levels — Essential Only, Smart Filter, Catch Everything — set on your Mac, so you decide how much gets through. HOW FILTERING WORKS What leaves your Mac depends on your filter engine, not your plan. With Smart Filter or Apple Intelligence the judgment happens on your Mac and your message text never leaves it. With Cloud AI, Brief sends the candidate message and the two or three before it to a model provider — used only to answer that one request, never stored by us, never used to train models. Either way, only the extracted action — a title, date/time and short summary — is saved to your account. PLANS Free — on-device filtering on your Mac, up to 50 actioned items a month, the full review queue and routing. Bring Your Own Key ($6.99/month) — cloud filtering on your own AI provider key. You pay your provider directly. First month free. Pro ($16.99/month) — cloud filtering on Brief's key with nothing to set up, up to 200 items surfaced for review a month, and the full morning brief. Premium ($24.99/month) — everything in Pro with no monthly item cap, plus Brief Plus daily modules you configure yourself: sports, markets, workout and your own. First month free. PRIVACY Contact names are resolved on your device — your contact list is never uploaded and is never sent to the AI provider. When Brief creates an item, the matched name appears in that item's title, which syncs to your account so your phone can show it. Attachments never leave your device. Message text leaves only on the Cloud AI engine, and only the candidate message and the two or three before it — see HOW FILTERING WORKS. Export or delete all your Brief data anytime from Settings. HOW IT WORKS Brief is two apps: a Mac app that does the scanning (it needs Full Disk Access to read Messages) and this iPhone app where you review and act. You'll need both. Catch what matters. The rest can wait. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://justbriefme.app/privacy