Memo — A Place to Dump Your Thoughts

Things come up in your head throughout the day. But you don’t know where to put them.

It’s not a task. There’s no action. It’s not a journal entry either. Too short, too unstructured. Just a thought that the only thing you know about it is that it crossed your mind.

I used to write those into the Notes app on my phone. The problem is, once they’re in there, I never look at them again. They’re not organized, and even if I tried to search, I can’t remember the keyword. They just pile up somewhere.

So I Made a Memo Tab

There’s a memo tab inside Fecit now. It has no rules.

• Title is optional.
• Just the body is fine.
• A single line is fine.

The goal was to remove the “should I write this down or not” friction. The moment you start weighing it, you stop writing it down.

How It Differs from Other Tabs

A task is “something to finish.” So it has a state (Registered / Started / Completed), a date, a retrospect.

A memo is just “something that exists.” No state, no date, no retrospect. It just sits there.

This distinction mattered. If I mixed tasks and memos in the same tab, people would start asking “wait, am I supposed to finish this?” — and the whole point of a memo (zero-pressure capture of a passing thought) collapses.

It Can Become a Task Later

Sometimes while writing a memo, it turns into “oh, I should actually do this.” There’s a button on the memo to convert it into a task directly.

The other way works too — if you made a task but realized there’s nothing to do, just delete the task and write it down as a memo.

Thoughts don’t move in one direction. Sometimes a memo becomes a task, sometimes a task should have just been a memo.

Stars and Projects

You can put a star (point color) on a memo and assign it to a project. So when memos pile up, you can group by color or filter by project.

You can also ignore both. Just write. Everything starts as plain gray. If, later, you feel like organizing — add colors then.

The Core of It

A memo isn’t a tool. It isn’t a place to manage anything. It’s a place to empty out.

You move a thought from your head to the memo, and the thought leaves your head. That’s the whole thing. You don’t need to revisit it. The act of writing it down is the point.