One idea behind all of it: keep what matters and find it later, without ever filing it. On your own, or shared with your group.
Catch the thought the second you have it. No folders, no filing, nothing to decide first, so the idea survives instead of slipping away while you work out where to put it. Organise later, when you're ready, or never.
Get it out of your head in 2 seconds, faster than opening any other app. No forms, no decisions: type it and it's safe.
Forward an email and it lands on your timeline. Each timeline has its own address, so the bits worth keeping leave your inbox instead of getting buried.
Message your Telegram bot and it's captured, with no app to switch to when your hands are full.
Snap a photo or screenshot and the text comes out dated and searchable, so you never retype a whiteboard or a receipt again.
Say it instead of typing it. jotsum turns the recording into dated, searchable text on your timeline, like everything else.
Bring in years of scattered notes and AI lays them out on your timeline with proper datestamps, so what was lost becomes findable.
Search by a keyword and a rough timeframe. jotsum dated everything when you captured it, so finding it later takes seconds instead of a hunt through every app you own.
Everything's in date order on its own, so you stop losing things and stop building folders to find them. No folders required, no tags required. Add your own structure whenever you want it, or leave it as it is.
Search by keyword + filter by date range. "That book recommendation was sometime in spring" → Found in 5 seconds.
Type #urgent or @sarah while writing. Instant categories. Filter by any tag. No planning required.
Colour-code your timelines. Create categories that make sense to you. Visual organisation without complexity.
Select multiple entries. Move them, tag them, complete them, all at once. When you're ready to organise, do it in batches rather than one by one.
Your starting point. See what's happened lately across your timelines, catch any @mentions, and jot a quick note.
Ask plain questions of what you've captured, break the daunting thing into steps, notice your own rhythms, and let an agent keep the group caught up. You decide what runs and when; nothing watches you in the background.
Set up an agent to read the timelines you choose and write a short summary back as an entry, on a rhythm you set. The group stays caught up without one person always doing the rounds, and it only runs because you asked it to, on the timelines you picked.
Wonder when you finish most tasks, or what keeps coming up this month? Ask in plain language and AI answers from your own entries. It only looks when you ask.
Scroll back by week or month and patterns become visible: busy stretches, quiet ones, topics that keep returning. The dated timeline is the view; no automatic scoring required.
Write the big, daunting thing as one line, then ask jotsum to break it into clear sub-tasks, shown right there on the entry. Nothing left too vague to start.
It works with the tools you already use, and nothing is ever locked in. Your data, your rules.
Send updates to Slack, Discord, or any service. Connect to Zapier, n8n, Make.
View your timeline entries in your calendar app. Subscribe to timelines as calendar feeds.
Build custom integrations. Full REST API for reading and writing entries.
Take everything and go whenever you like, in Markdown, JSON or CSV. It's your record to keep, never locked in.
Works on any device, any browser, no installation required. Install it for a faster launch when you need to capture in a hurry.
Write on your phone, see it on your laptop immediately. Your own entries sync across devices in real time, and if you share a timeline, everyone on it sees updates instantly. Lose your connection? Sync resumes automatically when you're back online.
Can I use this with someone? A partner. A shared house. The group that always ends up organising itself in a chat. You can share timelines with them. The chat carries on as it is. You put the bits worth keeping on the timeline: what you decided, who's doing what. All of you can find them later.
A lot of what jotsum leaves out is deliberate. Here's what it hands to other tools, and the thinking behind each one.
There are plenty of good calendar apps. jotsum is for minds that don't plan in rigid time-blocks or a fixed priority order. If you do want a calendar view, the iCal feed shows your timelines in whichever calendar app you already use. More on this: why timers and time-blocking don't work for ADHD brains.
Groups default to putting small decisions, links and notes into the chat because opening a doc or a project tool to log one line is too much friction. The result is that useful things vanish into the scroll. jotsum is light enough that logging something feels like messaging, so the bits worth keeping leave the thread. It works alongside chat, not instead of it.
jotsum won't chase you with pings, badges or streaks, not as a setting you turn off, but by design. Essential account and support messages may still reach you by email. More on the thinking behind this →
A free-form note requires you to impose structure to stay findable: a title, a folder, a header. In jotsum the date is the structure. Type something and press enter; the timestamp already makes it retrievable. The organising work that free-form notes push back onto you is handled automatically by when you captured it.
jotsum has no deadline fields, no overdue flags, nothing that changes the character of an entry as time passes. An entry you wrote on Monday is exactly as calm on Friday: no badge, no "missed". If you want a reminder, your calendar app is better placed to send one; jotsum is where you keep the context around it. More on the thinking behind this →
jotsum works alongside spreadsheets, not instead of them. If your data is too messy, or too simple, for a spreadsheet, or you're really only tracking things with dates in a spreadsheet column, jotsum is likely the better home for it.
60% of people who try jotsum use it daily, and it's free while in beta.