Not everything is a task. The stray thought, the meeting takeaway, the thing you must not forget — speak it and it’s saved, searchable, and out of your head.
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Thoughts don’t arrive at your desk. They arrive on the motorway, in the shower, halfway through someone else’s sentence — and they leave at the same speed unless something catches them.
Say note, then the thought. It saves with a date, sits in your Notes, and stays searchable. Add a checklist to any note and it becomes a working document — the packing list, the site checklist, the questions for the accountant.
Saved and dated. Safe from the next distraction.
Any note grows tick-boxes when the thought turns into a job.
Ten notes on the free plan.
Half your captures aren’t tasks — they’re maybes, references, things worth keeping that don’t belong on today’s list. Notes hold them without cluttering the day. When one grows up into a real job, it’s one command from the daily list.
The best ideas I ever had arrived in the workshop with both hands full. I’d tell myself I’d write it down at smoko. Some of those ideas I still try to remember.
— Dave Rees, Founder. From boatbuilder, to business owner, to Founder.
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