A note app that doesn't make you file things

One Line guide · Writing

One app for notes, another for to-dos, a calendar for events. With three of them, every thought comes with a question attached — where does this go? That decision takes half a second. Twenty times a day, it is enough to make you stop writing things down at all.

Write one line; the sorting happens after

One Line has a single box. Write whatever comes to mind and it is filed as a note, a to-do, or a routine.

Dentist tomorrow at 3 — a to-do with a time. It sits on that day's list and calendar at 3.
Buy milk — something to finish, so it is a to-do.
Stretch every morning at 7 — it repeats, so it is a routine. It sits on the blue card at the top of Today.
What came up in today's meeting — writing to keep, so it is a note.

If the guess is wrong, change it right under the box. Once you have chosen, nothing overwrites it — your choice outranks the rule.

Your sentences stay on the device

The sorting happens inside the app. Your text is not sent somewhere to be classified and sent back. That matters for one plain reason: what people put in a note app is usually what they did not intend anyone else to read.

Things without a date don't fall through

Some work has no fixed day — "sort out the move". Leave the date empty and it stays on Today from now until it is done. It is not pushed out of the list for lacking a date.

Something that repeats works the other way. Check it off and it moves to its next round, and the app tells you right there when that is, with a button to open it.

You can try it right now

The web app opens without an account. Write a line, watch where it lands, and sign in afterwards if you like it — everything you wrote until then moves to your account with you.