A brain dump app that sorts the mess for you

Emptying your head is the easy half. You open a note, type everything you are carrying, and feel better for about an hour. Then you have a wall of text, and turning that wall into tasks is a second job you will not do tonight and probably not tomorrow either.

So the note sits there. Some of it happens anyway, some of it quietly does not, and the next time you are overwhelmed you start a new note instead of reading the old one.

Brain Dump does the second half. You talk or type, and what comes back is a list of actual tasks with dates and books already on them, which you approve or drop. Then Focus starts you on the first one.

On the days you most need to get it out of your head, writing a list is itself the thing you cannot start. Typing forces you to decide the wording, the order and where each thing goes, before you have written a single line.

Talking skips all of that. You say it the way you would say it to a person, out of order and with half of it as an afterthought, and the sorting happens after. On the phone that means you can dump the day walking to the car. On a laptop it means you say it once instead of typing for ten minutes.

If you would rather type, type. It is the same feature and the same result.

This is the part most people ask about first. Brain Dump never writes to your list while you are talking. Everything it found is shown as rows you can drop, and only what you keep is saved.

It also only ever adds. Say three more things and three more rows appear. A task you already read is never re-titled, re-dated or moved into another book by a later turn, because watching a line reword itself while you are looking at it is unsettling and throws away any edit you had made.

Anything it cannot place confidently goes to your Inbox instead of being guessed into the wrong book.

Every feature is unlocked for your first 7 days, with no card, so you can dump as much as you want while you decide. After that Brain Dump is part of the paid version, and Today, Agenda, Calendar and 2 books stay free with no time limit.

The paid version is $29 once. There is no monthly plan. Full pricing is here, and if the reason you are reading this is that starting is the hard part, this page is about that.