An app for minds that move faster than the hand

The idea was there ten seconds ago

You unlock your phone to note one thing. A notification pops up. You answer it. You go back to the home screen and you no longer know what you meant to note.

If you have ADHD, ideas are not the problem: there are too many of them. The hard part is holding on to them long enough to write them down. Open the app, pick the list, type: three steps, and at each one the idea can leave.

You have probably tried paper planners and task apps with projects and sub-projects. They last a week. They ask you to sort at the moment you least feel like sorting.

One gesture, not three

Timbre’s bubble stays on screen, over the app you’re using. You hold it and you talk. Nothing to open, nothing to choose: the dictation goes into today’s note.

The text appears while you speak. You see it’s noted, and you can let the idea go.

Example: three dictations in a day

In today’s note, hour by hour:

9:12 AM “Cancel the gym membership, it’s before the 10th, otherwise they charge another month.”

11:40 AM “Idea for the site: prices at the top of the page. And call the bank.”

4:05 PM “The book Nadia told me about, a title with ‘garden’ in it, ask her again.”

In the evening, “Analyze the note” pulls out:

The summary sorts the three dictations by theme, even though they came in out of order.

Four ways to stop losing ideas

• Dictate right away, even half-formed. “The thing for Julie, I forget what” is better than nothing. Reread in the evening, between what you said before and after, the sentence puts you back on track.
• Don’t sort on the spot. Everything goes in today’s note. Sorting comes later, when you’ve decided.
• Sort once a day, at the same time. With your morning coffee, for example. One analysis of yesterday’s note, and you know what is waiting for you.
• Keep few tasks. After the analysis, keep only what you will really do. The rest doesn’t vanish: it stays in the note, and a single word is enough to find it.

Deleted a note too fast? It stays thirty days in the trash.

This is not medical advice.