The hard part isn’t the thought. It’s the filing

Here’s the thing about a good idea: you almost never have it at your desk. It turns up mid-conversation, halfway through a run, right in the middle of something else entirely. Having it is the easy part. Doing something useful with it is where it all falls apart.

The problem

Getting a thought filed properly takes more effort than having it did. Pick the right list, pick the right project, write a title that’ll still make sense next week, add a tag or two. By the time you’ve done all that the moment’s gone, and so is whatever you were actually in the middle of. So most thoughts get dropped into a generic notes app to rot, or they don’t get written down at all. The friction was never the capturing. It was the deciding.

The solution

Edmund takes the deciding off your hands. You type it or say it and you’re done, in the couple of seconds you can actually spare. Behind that, Edmund reads what you wrote and makes a call: what kind of note this is, and which of your projects it belongs to. It lands in your Inbox already sorted. You glance at it when it suits you, nod along or nudge it right, and then either keep it or send it onward as a proper issue.

Capture first, decide never. The thinking stays yours. The admin is Edmund’s.

How Edmund gets it done

The sorting is the whole product, so it’s worth being plain about how it works. Four things make it worth trusting.

It runs on your phone. The triage happens on-device, using Apple’s own model. There’s no account, and your notes never leave your phone to get sorted. Your half-formed thoughts are about the most personal thing you could hand an app, so they don’t go anywhere.

It learns from you. When you move a note to a different project, or change what kind of note Edmund thought it was, it remembers. Do it a couple of times and it starts getting your patterns right on its own. The more you use it, the less correcting you do.

It always works, and none of it sits behind a paywall. There are three tiers, and Edmund picks the best one available to you. On-device by default. Bring your own Anthropic key and it’ll use a sharper model instead, straight from your phone, no middleman. And a basic on-device fallback that still sorts your notes with no key and no signal at all. A key swaps the engine. It never unlocks a feature.

It sends things where they actually live. Keep a note, or route it onward as a real issue: Linear, GitHub, Jira, GitLab, Notion, Todoist, Apple Reminders, Apple Calendar and more, with the right project and the right details already filled in. A thought becomes a tracked piece of work without you retyping a thing.

That’s the whole idea. Catch the thought before it’s gone, let Edmund work out where it goes, and get on with your day.