Throw in a thought.It files itself.

Type or say one sentence. BrainCrumb makes it a to-do, a reminder, a person, an event or a note, and keeps when and where you had it. You never organise anything.

Free while in beta. It works in any browser, and on a phone from the Home Screen. The iPhone app is coming.

ReminderFiled in Calendar

Remind me to water the ferns Friday at 2pm

To do
water the ferns Friday at 2pm
When
Fri, Oct 9, 2:00 PM
Typed
Tue, Oct 6, 6:30 PM
Place
kept too, if you switch it on

Filed here in your browser by BrainCrumb's own rules. Nothing is sent. In the app a model reads it as well, and it is saved.

It keeps when and where.

Weeks later you may not remember the words. You will remember it was the day you met someone on Edgewood. So every capture keeps its moment, and BrainCrumb finds it that way.

Kept today, in the web app

  • The moment you made it, always.
  • Where you were, if you switch that on. Your browser asks you first.
  • A place you name once names the next capture you make there.
  • Find it again by day, on the map, or by what it was about.

Also kept by the iPhone app, which is coming

  • The weather.
  • Whether you were walking or driving.
  • What was on your calendar.
  1. Tue 8:12 AMTo-Do

    Book the vet for Luna, the cough is back

    Place HomeWeather: with the iPhone app
  2. Tue 1:40 PMContact

    Met Priya from the co-op, priya@greenrow.coop

    Place Edgewood Ave
  3. Tue 6:05 PMIdea

    Idea: a shared tool shelf for the street

    Place Inman Park
Three captures from one Tuesday, drawn as BrainCrumb keeps them.

One place for all of it.

Notes, to-dos, reminders, people, events, money and links land in one list, and each in its own place as well. There is nothing to set up. If it guessed the kind wrong, change it and the capture moves.

Do
Plan, To Do, Calendar, Goals
Keep
Notebook, Journal, Ideas, Stash
People
Contacts
Track
Time, Health, Spend
Places
Map
The BrainCrumb web app. The list of captures, each with its kind and its time, and the five groups of places: Do, Keep, People, Track and Places.
The web app today, on a demo account.

Find it by what you meant.

Type the words you remember, or what it was about. Search finds captures by what they mean as well as by their words, so a half-remembered thought still turns up.

Who it is for.

  • Your notes are in four apps, and you stopped filing them.

    There is nothing to file. Each thought lands in its place, and the old ones can stay where they are.

    Open the web app
  • You think of things while driving, walking or cooking, and lose them.

    Say it into the web app on your phone; it goes on the Home Screen like an app. The iPhone app is coming.

    Get on the iPhone list
  • You built a system in Notion or Obsidian, and keeping it up is a job.

    Keep the system for what deserves one. Throw everything else here, and take it all with you whenever you like.

    What you can take with you
  • You want a button, a watch or a Shortcut to send it thoughts.

    Anything that can send one web request with a key can capture. A ring already does.

    Read the API page
  • You are careful about where your words and your places go.

    Place is off until you switch it on, captures never train AI models, and the policy names every service.

    Read the privacy policy

Who it is not for. Long documents, a wiki to design, a team's shared knowledge, or anything that must never leave your own device: BrainCrumb is a service, and its servers read each capture to file it.

Careful with your words, and with where you were.

Place is off until you say

In the web app a capture keeps where you were only once you switch that on, and your browser asks you first. Only the coordinates are kept, with the name you give a place.

Read to be filed, never to train

Software reads each capture to file it and to make search work, on Cloudflare's machines. Your captures are not used to train AI models.

Named, every one

Captures are kept on Cloudflare, sign-in is Clerk, and the privacy policy names every other service and what each one sees.

No ads, nothing sold

There are no advertising identifiers and no tracking across other apps or sites. Your data is not sold.

Leave any time, with all of it

Export everything you have captured, on every plan, in five formats. Delete one thing and it waits in Trash for 30 days. Delete your account yourself, in Settings, and its data goes with it.

  • JSON
  • CSV
  • Markdown
  • vCard
  • ICS

Read the privacy policy

Free while in beta.

Nobody pays during the beta, and every account has the limits of the paid plan. After the beta, Free keeps unlimited capture and export, with 100 AI actions a month. Plus is $5 a month for more.

What each plan includes

The iPhone app is coming.

The web app works today, on a phone too. When the iPhone app ships it will add Siri, a widget and the share sheet, and keep the weather and what you were doing as well as the place. It is not out yet. Leave your email and you will be asked first when its beta opens.

One email, the invitation. No newsletter, and your address is not shared.

A trail of violet crumbs leading to a small flag, under a sun and a cloud

Throw in the next thing you would have forgotten.

Make a free account and type it. It files itself, and everything you save is yours to export.