One purpose behind every feature: get things out of your head, and get them back when you need them. Built for minds that work in bursts.
Capture it the second you think of it — no folders, no filing, nothing to decide first. Organise later, when you're ready — or not at all.
Write it in 2 seconds. Faster than opening any other app. No forms, no decisions, type and it's saved.
Forward emails to your timeline. Each timeline gets a unique email address. Send from anywhere.
Message your Telegram bot to capture instantly. No app switching when you're hands-on.
Upload a photo or screenshot. Image is described and text is extracted automatically — dated and searchable.
Speak instead of type. Record an audio note and jotsum transcribes it for you — it lands on your timeline as dated, searchable text, like everything else.
Bring in your existing scattered notes. AI organises them into your timeline with proper datestamps.
Search by keyword and a rough timeframe — jotsum dated it when you captured it.
Everything organised by date automatically. No folders required. No tags required. Write it down — it gets datestamped. Organise further whenever you want to, or never.
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 questions of what you've captured, break daunting tasks into steps, and see your own rhythms over time.
Wonder when you finish most tasks, or what keeps coming up this month? Ask in plain language — AI reads what you've captured and answers from your entries. You ask when you want to know; nothing runs in the background.
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.
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.
Export everything anytime. Markdown, JSON, CSV. Take your data wherever you want. No vendor lock-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. Both of you can find them later. How sharing works →
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.
jotsum isn't a chat tool — it doesn't host your conversations or debates. It's where you put what's worth keeping afterwards: the decision, the link, the note — not the thread it came from.
jotsum is built to reduce noise, not add to it — so it won't chase you with pings, badges or streaks. Essential account and support messages may still reach you by email. More on this: why every ping feels like a threat.
jotsum doesn't replace your notepad or document editor — plenty of those exist. But if you ever catch yourself adding date headers to a long note just to track when things happened, that's the gap jotsum fills.
jotsum works alongside spreadsheets, not instead of them. If your data is too messy — or too simple — for a spreadsheet, or you're really just 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.