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What it does

• One line, three places: write “Dentist at 3 tomorrow. Bring the card” and the to-do goes onto tomorrow morning’s post-it, the appointment gets a reminder an hour before, and the rest goes into search. It is sorted on the device the moment you save
• Today: to-dos picked from today’s notes and anything carried over share one sheet of paper. Unfinished items move to the next day with a day count, and yesterday’s sheet is folded away
• Speak: tap the mic and your words are transcribed onto a post-it. Stop, and it is saved as is, with the original audio kept on the device
• One word to find it: search, and a post-it summarising the related notes in a few lines sits on top, with the original notes below grouped into Yesterday, This week and Last month
• Recurring records: when the same name or phrase turns up on several days, the search summary becomes a crayon calendar. Nothing to switch on; the notes turn into a log by themselves
• Apple Watch: check off today’s to-dos and dictate notes from your wrist

Nothing leaves your device

There is no account. Summaries and sorting happen on the device, with no server. iCloud sync starts off and is only for matching another device. Numbers and codes such as passwords and booking numbers stay out of summaries.

Judgment calls

The on-device model only helps. Foundation Models, which reads the notes, runs only on supported devices and has to be switched on in Settings. So the app had to do its job without it. Rules read every note first, and only notes the rules cannot place are passed to the model. Either way, nothing leaves the device.

Dictating on the watch takes one more tap. watchOS does not let code open the dictation sheet directly. So there is a Speak screen in between, and tapping it brings up system dictation. In exchange for the extra tap, the transcribed text stops at “Add it like this?” to choose between Add and Say it again before it goes to the phone. The watch sends only text and never records an audio file.

Counts instead of a trial period. Plus is a one-time purchase, and the App Store offers no free trial for that kind of product. A trial start date kept on the device would reset with a simple reinstall. So instead of a time-limited taste, the Plus boxes (money, people, numbers and codes, clippings) appear dimmed in the free version, and their item counts are always kept up to date. Tapping one shows what is inside. The app shows the work it has already done first and asks for payment after that. The to-do, appointment, where-did-I-put-it, shopping and repeated-entries boxes are free. Recurring records count the current month on the free tier and three months with Plus, and the tracker widget is part of Plus.

No streaks. The people this app is for put it down for a while and come back. Counting consecutive days turns the day the run broke into a failure, and an app remembered as a failure is hard to return to. So there are no streaks and no “you haven’t written anything today” notifications. Notifications come only in the morning, in the evening and an hour before an appointment, and unfinished items are never deleted: they move to the next day’s sheet with a day count.

Releases

1.0.0 — Released on the App Store