The presale you missed by ten minutes. The appointment you only remembered because the office called. The dress you screenshotted in March and never found again. If you have ADHD, you already know this Tuesday by heart. Your life arrives as screenshots too, and a screenshot never does anything on its own. Here is the same Tuesday with Active Notes doing the remembering.
Every step below is something the app does today, and each one says whether it’s free or Premium, so you know exactly what you’re getting before you download.
7:00 AM · Before the coffee
Nothing on today. You know that before the kettle boils.
The morning digest is one line when the day is open and about a minute when it is not. On a busier morning press Listen and it reads you the day in the order it happens, with the time of each thing. Free, in your phone’s voice. Premium narrates it in a natural voice, in words written for your day.
Free7:15 AM · Your inbox
The gym sends a booking confirmation for Thursday’s 6:30 PM class.
Screenshot it. Thursday 6:30 is on your calendar with the studio address, and you get a reminder 15 minutes before it starts. The note clears itself the next day.
Free9:40 AM · A friend’s story
A screenshot of a presale: tickets go on sale Friday at 10:00 AM, with a code.
Screenshot it. “Presale opens” is on your calendar for Friday at 10:00, the code is in the note, and a reminder arrives 15 minutes before. The only time it matters, you are already there.
Free11:00 AM · The dentist’s front desk
A paper appointment card for six months from now.
Photo it. The appointment is on your calendar with the address tappable. You will not think about it again until the reminder, which is the point.
Free1:20 PM · Instagram
The dress. You know the one.
Screenshot it. It lands in To Buy with the price and the link still tappable, instead of somewhere in 4,000 camera roll photos.
Free4:00 PM · Your inbox again
The running shoes shipped. The tracking number is in the email somewhere.
Screenshot it. The number is found and shown on the note. With Premium the delivery sits live on your Today dashboard until it reaches your door, and you get a tap when it does.
7:30 PM · TikTok
A fifteen-second recipe that is somehow worth making.
Share it to Active Notes. It arrives as a recipe, not a screenshot: the ingredients to tick, the steps as cards, timers inside the steps. At the store the list is on your Apple Watch; at the stove, so is the step. Made It remembers you doubled the garlic.
8:30 PM · Winding down
Nothing needs you tonight.
The evening digest says so in one line, after telling you what cleared itself today and that tomorrow starts with nothing before nine. You did not open the app to find out. Free.
10:00 PM · One last email
The lease renewal. Decide by the 15th, or it rolls over.
Screenshot it. “Lease renewal due” is on your calendar, with a reminder the morning it’s due. Sign in free and mark the note Never Expire, so the terms are there when you need them in a year.
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The invoice, the Slack thread, the deadline in a browser tab, with the phone in a drawer. Same app, on the Mac.