A quiet place to park what your brain is carrying — on the Lock Screen or in widgets — so you read it back instead of rehearsing it.
Whatever your mind is carrying, in any shape that fits — and stays where your eyes already are. No need to go looking for it.
The idea on top of your mind. The thing you need to do after waking up. Out of your head, onto your Lock Screen.
Big tasks become a vague, heavy cloud. Name the small steps inside — and do those, instead of thinking about the cloud.
Shopping, packing, pre-flight. The dot fills in — there's a little haptic thump. Nice to fidget with, too.
Phone-first brain dump. Topics, song titles, a bad joke you want to remember to use the next day.
"Drink water." "A deep breath before deciding to scroll." - things to remind yourself when your mind wanders and forgets who you want to be.
Four widget sizes, a Live Activity that stays on your Lock Screen. The goal is simple: you shouldn't have to open the app to get the benefit.
If you cannot start something for days at a time - it's often because it's a vague cloud. Break it down, see the inner steps right on your lock screen. Now you're not thinking about "work on project" — you're thinking about "open the doc," which you can do in a minute without the baggage of the whole task.
Some things you do again and again — and still stall on, because starting means deciding where to begin. Save the steps once. Now the process runs itself: glance, do the bold one, glance again. No deciding, nothing skipped — just follow it down and "Enjoy."
I made On My Mind because I needed a way to keep my thoughts in front of me without having to look for them every time.
I use it every day, and originally I didn't even plan to release it.
I tried notes, reminders, paper notes, but the friction of finding the thought made them useless - reminders get ignored, notes get lost, buried, I forget where I put them or I forget they even existed. Here - they are right in front of me, front and center every time I look at my phone.
Here I park interesting thoughts, save things I want to research or keep tasks visible. When a big task feels like a heavy cloud, putting the inner steps right on my lock screen helps me break the pattern - and over time see it as a collection of actionable steps.
It works best when you keep the thoughts fresh and remove the ones that get stale. If a thought is still relevant - go back to it and rewrite it in new words. Keep only a few thoughts that are truly relevant - and worth surfacing.
Also... the interface is quite fidgety and sensory with the haptics. I think you'll like using it :)
Not really. Todo apps are about completion — you finish things and they leave. On My Mind is about being reminded. A thought can stay in view for weeks if it matters.
Those apps assume you'll go open them. This one assumes you won't — and puts what you wrote where your eyes already are (Lock Screen, Home Screen, Dynamic Island).
Some of our most devoted users are neurodivergent, and the core mechanic — externalizing working memory — helps a lot there. But it's built for anyone who feels a little heavy when there's too much to remember.
Not yet. The Lock Screen integrations we rely on are iOS-specific.
Free on the App Store. Plus if you love it.
