Notes
Rich text with other items and files embedded right in the body.
Features
What the app actually does today.
What the project is built on
Twelve different kinds of thing — and they really are different, each with its own role and its own behaviour. But in life they never turn up separately: a meeting happens with a person, the document comes from that same person, the task is what is left after the conversation. That is what I tried to carry into the app — not the things one by one, but the way they hold on to each other.
Files
Folders, versions with history, previews for documents and images.
Tasks
Assignees, priority, deadlines and nesting to any depth.
Lists
Checklists that are first-class items, not a flag on a task.
Events
Calendar with recurrence rules, exceptions and time zones.
Places
Map and geocoding, with everything that ever happened there.
People
Contacts and accounts as one card, with graded trust.
Chats
Group and direct messages, anchored to the item they are about.
Projects
Containers that pass their context down to everything inside.
Spaces
The larger frame — home, work, a course, a building.
Tags
Ordinary items too, which is why they can be shared and coloured.
Forward a letter and it lands in the graph with its attachments, linked to the people in it.
What you can do with it
Mechanics that work on any item, not inside one section.
Link anything to anything
Across types and both ways. A file belongs to a project and to a person at once, an event holds a place, a task points at a letter.
Grant access to a single item
Not to a folder or a workspace, but to one thing for one person — and take it back in a single move.
Folders and trees
Files, notes, lists, mail, contacts, chats and places each have their own folders, and dragging into them works.
Hide what you do not need
Hidden disappears for you and stays for everyone else: it is your view, not a property of the item.
Importance
Three levels, visible both in the row and in the section menu, so the important thing does not sink in a long list.
File versions
Replace a file and keep its whole history, roll back to an earlier one — and an attachment remembers the exact version it was given.
Embedding straight into text
A file, another note, a task or a contact goes into the body of a note as a living item, not as a mention of one.
Recurring events
Repetition rules, exceptions to them and time zones — by the calendar standard, not «roughly every week».
A conversation on any item
A chat or comments can live outside the chat section: the discussion sits on the thing being discussed.
Bulk selection
Tick several rows and do one thing to all of them, instead of opening each one.
Wherever you are
Same account, same data, no separate mobile version to keep in sync.
- WebAny modern browser
- iOSTestFlight
- AndroidDirect download
- macOSNative app
- WindowsNative app
What is not here yet
The full list of what is missing, and of what I intend to do about it, lives in one place — the plans. I did not copy it here: two lists drift apart faster than you would think.
Some of this is still rough
In places the interface feels overloaded, and some things are not done as well as they should be. I see it and I am straightening it out, but that takes time. If you have a thought on how to make it easier to use, write to me — I read those letters and act on them.
Put everything in one place
Create an account and see how much of your life is already connected.