A memory that works things out is almost here
XNeuronal is a personal assistant with a memory, and its release is imminent. You tell it about your day in ordinary sentences; it pulls out the people, the dates, the places and the things to do, links them together, and brings them back when they matter. What sets off a reminder can be a time, a place and how close you are to it, or a real world condition such as rain tomorrow. To hear about it the day it ships, just leave your address on this site.
A note that no longer means anything
"Call back about the quote." Found three weeks later in a phone. No name, no date, no context. It was written by someone who knew what they were talking about, and read back by someone who no longer does.
That is the limit every note taking tool shares. They keep characters. They know nothing about who, when or where, and they never come back on their own at the moment the information would be useful. As for organizing apps, they offer a cure more expensive than the disease: create folders, pick categories, maintain a tree. A second job, abandoned within a few days.
What a memory does, and a folder does not
Human memory does not file things flat. It writes down what counts, links things to one another, lets the rest drift away without losing it, and knows how to bring it all back when the need returns. What gets repeated gains weight. What goes untouched sinks, without disappearing.
XNeuronal is built on that model, and not just in spirit. Every piece of information becomes a neuron linked to the others. Those neurons sit in distinct layers, and a neuron changes layer depending on what you do with it: what comes up often rises, what sleeps drops back down. A background process reorganizes them without being asked. The details of that mechanism are told in how neurons work and in a layered memory.
What that means in practice: you say one thing, it keeps four. "I was at Paul's birthday party last night" leaves behind the person, the date, the event and the context, linked together. The following year, the reminder arrives without anyone having created a birthday reminder.
Choosing the moment something comes back
A reminder set for six in the evening goes off in the middle of a meeting and gets swiped away with a thumb. The problem is not the reminder, it is the trigger.
Here, you choose the trigger by saying it. A time or a date, like everywhere else. A place, with a distance: five hundred meters from the bakery, the bread. An arrival, or a departure. Or a real world condition: if it rains tomorrow, when the season turns, at sunset. The details are in location based reminders and reminders and calendar.
And the reminder does not appear in silence in the middle of forty notifications: it is read out loud, even with the app closed.
What there is not
No tabs. No lists to scroll through. No folder to create, no category to pick, nothing to configure before you begin. A single page, where you speak or you type, as you prefer. It is a stance held since the very first screen, explained in why we removed tabs.
When, and how to find out
The release is imminent, and the app will be free at launch. The exact date is not up to us: it depends on the store review, which takes as long as it takes. Announcing a specific day would be a promise nobody here can keep.
The simplest thing, then, is to leave your address in the form on this site. One message will go out, on release day, and nothing else.
The app will arrive in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Data is hosted in Europe, exportable and deletable whenever you decide, and nothing forces you to create an account to get started, as explained on the page about accounts and privacy.