Pensieve - Email Notes to Yourself

Pensieve is a note-taking app that makes it super simple to capture ideas and put them in your email inbox. Instead of taking a note and forgetting about it, with Pensieve you can capture an idea and actually remember to act on it. Pensieve is the notes app you’ll actually use.

The power of Pensieve is in its simplicity. When you first download Pensieve, you put in the destination email address and the app saves it, so you don’t have to enter it again. Then you jot a note or add a picture or a voice memo. Hit send, and off it goes to your email. The first line automatically becomes your email’s subject line, so you don’t even have to type one in.

Of course, there are a lot of ways to make a note on your phone. You probably use Apple Notes for a million different things, and you have many other apps capable of capturing thoughts. But here’s the problem: you have to remember you had that thought and then go looking for it.

The issue with those other note apps is once you jot the thought down, you might never think about it again. With Pensieve, that thought goes straight to your email and, because you check your email often and messages from Pensieve can be flagged as “important” or labeled via a filter, you definitely won’t miss it.

The key with Pensieve is to capture the thought in the moment, then put Pensieve away. After your note is in your inbox, you can do all of the organizing and following up later. The app doesn't want to distract you, interrupt you, or keep your attention. There are no ads, no notifications, and no attempts at hacking your attention.

Justifiably, Pensieve is popular with ADHD-brain folks, writers, creative types, and people with a lot going on who juggle multiple roles in their lives. The coffee shop manager with an online vintage side business. The software engineer with multiple consulting clients. Those use Pensieve capture their thoughts in the moment with minimal interruption, all throughout their day, and remember them later.

People use Pensieve at work, at home, when commuting, while shopping, and on vacation. One of the most popular uses of Pensieve is taking notes before bed so you won’t lie awake stressing about whether or not you’ll remember them tomorrow.

The app is free to use, subject to some limits. People who love Pensieve upgrade to the All Access subscription, which allows them to send unlimited emails for $3/month or $25/year (a 30% discount).

If you’re prone to jotting notes on your phone and then forgetting about them, you will find Pensieve to be the perfect solution.