For people who think constantly — and hate formal journaling
Capture thoughts without stopping your life.
Jotlet is a lightweight, voice-first notes app for capturing ideas in the moment and making sense of them later.
The Problem
Thoughts move faster than structure
Your best ideas rarely show up when you're ready to organize them. They appear mid-walk, mid-shower, mid-scroll — and by the time you sit down to write them "properly," the moment has passed. Most tools assume you'll slow down to fit their structure. Real thinking doesn't work that way.
Journaling feels like commitment
Formal journaling asks too much: time, consistency, and emotional effort. Miss a few days and the habit breaks. Templates start to feel prescriptive. What begins as a tool for clarity quickly turns into another thing you're "behind on." For people who think constantly, journaling can feel heavier than the thoughts themselves.
Notes apps become junk drawers
Without constant maintenance, notes apps fill up with fragments: half ideas, lists without context, thoughts you meant to revisit. You know something important is in there — you just don't know where. The burden shifts from thinking to organizing, and eventually, you stop trusting your notes at all.
You've already thought about this — you just can't find it
There's a specific frustration in knowing you've worked through a problem before, felt something deeply before, or had clarity before — but being unable to reconnect with it. Memory becomes fragmented not because you didn't capture it, but because recalling it requires too much effort.
Structure too early kills momentum
Most tools push structure upfront: folders, tags, systems, decisions. But early structure forces premature clarity. It asks you to define something before you understand it. For many people, this interrupts momentum and discourages capture altogether.
The Jotlet Approach
Capture first, structure later
- Get thoughts out without deciding what they are yet
- No required folders, templates, or systems
- Structure can be added later, when it actually helps
A notes junk drawer that organizes itself (eventually)
- Today: fast capture, simple search, AI-assisted recall
- The long-term vision: your notes become easier to navigate without manual effort
Retrieval over organization
- Finding matters more than filing
- Thinking matters more than sorting
- Trust recall, not perfect structure
What Jotlet Is
- Voice-first, text-optional note capture
- Short, low-pressure entries
- Simple full-text search
- AI chat to synthesize and explore your own notes
- No coaching, no auto-insights, no prescriptions
How It Feels
Capture now. Make sense later.
Start capturingUse Cases
Daily Mental Offloading
- Capture thoughts during walks, commutes, and transitions
- Clear mental space without organizing
Creative Threads
- Capture ideas that evolve over time
- Ask questions like: "What ideas have I had about X?"
- See how your thinking changes naturally
Work-in-Progress Thinking
- Save half-formed thoughts
- Revisit before meetings or writing
- Synthesize without rereading everything
Emotional Pattern Noticing
- Capture feelings without formal reflection
- Ask questions across time
- Notice themes without labeling them upfront
Memory Support
- Breadcrumbs instead of a diary
- Recall without relying on perfect memory
- Reduce the feeling that days blur together