Your notes app has a split personality. Half your notes are things you need to do. The other half are things you just need to remember. Cram them into one list, and your to-do list never feels done — because it’s full of stuff you were never going to check off.
We just shipped a fix for that: the Memory Bank.
Two kinds of notes, one messy list
Think about what’s actually in your notes right now. Some of it is active — today’s tasks, the deadline Friday, the shoot on Thursday. But a lot of it is reference:
- Your mom’s medication list and her doctor’s number.
- An account number, a policy number, the good plumber’s name.
- A gift idea for next year. A recipe. The book a friend swore by.
You don’t want to do any of those. You want them safe and findable. But when they sit in the same feed as your to-dos, two bad things happen: the reference stuff clutters your daily list, and the important keep-forever notes get buried under this week’s noise.
Meet the Memory Bank
The Memory Bank is a quiet second shelf for the notes you just want to keep. Flag a note, and it slips out of your everyday feed into its own space — still 100% yours, still 100% searchable, just out of the way.
Two brains, really: your active feed for what’s on your plate, and your Memory Bank for what you want to hold onto.
How it works
- Keep it: swipe left on any note and tap 🧠 Keep. Or open the note and tap the 🧠 button in the header.
- Find it: a 🧠 Memory tab appears at the top of your notes. Tap it for your whole reference library in one place.
- Out of your face: kept notes leave your main feed and don’t clutter your daily “on your plate” view.
- Never lost: search still finds them, and Ask your brain still answers from them. If you’re searching, you’re searching — it doesn’t matter which shelf a note lives on.
Why we built it this way
A real second brain isn’t just a smarter to-do list. It’s active memory and long-term memory, living together but not on top of each other. Your active feed answers “what do I need to handle?” The Memory Bank answers “where did I put that?” — the question a notes app should always be able to answer, and usually can’t.
Keep what matters. Lose the clutter.