For anyone whose mind has never quite fit the tools built for everyone else.
Most productivity tools assume a steady, categorising brain. jotsum is built for the one you actually have.
Working memory drops things — that isn't a flaw to fix, it's how the wiring works. jotsum becomes your external memory: type a thought, press enter, and it's safe. Dated, searchable, out of your head. More on this: the brain dump.
You know exactly what needs doing, you want to do it, and you can't start. That gap — common in ADHD — isn't laziness. jotsum lowers the friction of starting: no folder to choose, no decision to make. And the "Could Not Should" template takes the obligation off the list. More on this: the gap between knowing and starting.
Folders are where things quietly disappear — object permanence is real. jotsum doesn't have any. Everything lives on your timelines, in plain view, in the order it happened.
jotsum never pings, badges or chases you. It waits quietly until you're ready. Nothing about it is built to make you feel behind — which matters a great deal if you live with rejection sensitivity. More on this: why every ping feels like a threat.
The moment a task becomes a demand — a deadline, a "must", even a note you wrote yourself — something locks up. That's demand avoidance, not defiance. jotsum has no overdue flags, no streaks, nothing that nags. A task stays exactly as calm as when you wrote it down. More on this: why pressure and deadlines can make things harder.
Who was there and what you talked about can stay clear for years. The date rarely does — and that isn't carelessness, it's how memory holds onto things when you're juggling a lot at once. Search a keyword and a rough "when-ish" — last spring, around my birthday — and if you captured it, it's there. jotsum dated it when you wrote it down; you never have to be precise.
Some days you have the energy to organise; most days you don't. jotsum asks the same of you either way — type and press enter. And when today is too much, move things to a day that better matches your capacity: no penalty, no overdue flag. More on this: you don't have to carry everything into today.
On the days that feel empty, your timeline shows what you actually did. And gentle templates help you make a start without the pile-on of self-criticism.
Three steps. No setup, no system to learn.
Type whatever's in your head and press enter. No forms, no folder to choose, no decision to make.
Every entry lands on a timeline, automatically dated. You don't organise anything.
Search by keyword and a rough timeframe whenever you need it. Nothing is ever buried.
jotsum gives you timelines you can point at almost anything — quick notes, tasks, a reading list, moods and energy, observations you want to watch change over time, the things that otherwise scatter across a dozen apps. You decide what each one is for; jotsum dates everything you add and keeps it findable. That takes weight off the day: fewer things lost, less time spent searching, less friction between you and what you were trying to do.
We built jotsum for ourselves — two people who spent decades not understanding why the usual tools never worked for us. Our story is on the About page. Your experience of neurodivergence is your own, and it's genuinely fine if jotsum isn't the right tool for you. It's free to try, free to leave, and your data is always yours to export.
"Before this I had endless bits of paper, calendar reminders, post-it notes, 100 website tabs open, and three different organisational platforms. This software has genuinely been life changing — it solves everything in one place and I've become much more productive."— SJ, talent agent
Free to start. No notifications, no pressure, no system to maintain — somewhere calm to keep what matters.
What about the people I share a life with? A partner, a flatmate, the family group chat. Shared admin is often where the load lands hardest: the bit everyone assumes someone else is holding. You can share timelines, so what needs keeping sits somewhere you can all see it, not only in one person's head. How sharing works →