22 April 2026Brain dump app

Notes: a place to put the thought down

Open a note and start typing, whether it's a brain dump, a half-formed idea or a list. It saves itself, and it's there on every device you sign in to.

What you can do with Notes

Notes. Open a new note and start typing. There's nothing to fill in first.
Autosave. A note saves a moment after you stop typing, and again when you leave the page.
Formatting when you want it: three heading sizes, bold, italic, strikethrough, code, bullet and numbered lists, quotes and dividers, with undo and redo.
On every device. Notes belong to your account, so they're waiting on whichever device you sign in from.

Why I wanted one place for every brain dump

For years my thoughts landed wherever there was room: a notepad, Apple Notes, Google Keep, an email to myself, a WhatsApp message to myself. Each one helped in the moment. Then I'd lose a morning trying to remember which one held the thing I needed.

The first thing I wanted from this app was one quiet place to type, on the PC, the Mac, the tablet or the phone, and to get the words out before asking them to become anything else.

Rachit, founder of Xale

The ideas behind Notes

Get it out of your head first

A worry or a to-do is easier to deal with once it's written down exactly, before you try to solve it or decide where it goes.

Worth reading: Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948). His first step with any worry is to write down exactly what you're worried about. Only then do you work out what to do about it.
Worth reading: Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul (2007). You aren't the voice in your head; you're the one who hears it. Writing a thought down makes that easier to notice.
The usual way: a thought goes wherever there's room: a notepad, Apple Notes, Google Keep, an email or a message to yourself.
In this release: a new note opens ready to type. There's no folder or tag to choose first.

Let the page hold it

Anything written somewhere you trust is one less thing you have to remember.

Worth reading: Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things (1988). He separates knowledge in the head from knowledge in the world. What's in the world doesn't need remembering, only finding.
In this release: autosave. The page keeps what you wrote without you having to remember to save it.

One place to look

Every extra place a thought might be is another question to answer before you can use it.

Worth reading: Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think (2000). Every question a screen makes you stop and answer adds a little effort. "Where did I put that?" is one of those questions.
The usual way: a morning lost trying to remember which app holds the thing you need.
In this release: one place for notes, the same on every device you sign in from.