Save things for future-you.
Like Pinterest for anything you see, except it checks back to ask if you still care. Share a post, a link or a photo from any app, drop it in a drawer, and Things I Saw nudges you about it later, until you either act on it or let it go.
iPhone, Mac and Android all launch together. Not out yet; it's on my own phone for now.
c337378Not a bookmark graveyard.
Saving things was never the hard part. They just disappear into wherever you saved them. Things I Saw is the middle layer people fake with a chat to themselves: see it, snapshot it, forget it on purpose, get asked about it later.
See
You're scrolling a feed, a shop, a video, doing something else entirely.
Share
Share → Things I Saw. It's saved the instant the sheet opens. No typing.
Sort
One tap on a drawer. Skip it and it waits in Unsorted.
Remind
Once, weekly, monthly or custom, until a date. Then delete it or keep it.
Forget
On purpose. Close the sheet and get on with your day.
Get nudged
One quiet notification a day, at most: "3 things worth a second look."
Decide
Got it, done with it, not anymore. The pile shrinks instead of growing.
Try the share sheet.
Tap Share on any post in the little feed. Notice it says Saved before you've done anything. Picking a drawer, a price or a reminder is all optional; close it and it lands in Unsorted.
This demo needs JavaScript. The short version: share from any app, it's saved instantly, pick a drawer if you like.
One nudge a day. Tops.
Every reminder due on a day is folded into a single notification at the time you pick. Drag through the next six weeks and see what your phone would actually say. Things with no reminder still get an occasional "Still want it?" check-in, so nothing rots in a drawer forever.
Personal things are only ever counted, never named.
Three decisions, about ten seconds. See you whenever something's due.
A second look, one card at a time.
Tap the notification and your due things come up as a little stack. Swipe them, tap the buttons, or on the Mac use the arrow keys.
- →Got it. Still interested, or already did it. It goes back in its drawer and the reminder keeps its schedule.
- ←Not anymore. Moves to Deleted Items. It sticks around for 30 days in case you change your mind.
- ⏱Ask later. For check-ins: it comes back in a while, and waits longer each time you snooze it.
Every drawer has its own trick.
Each category gets one field that suits it: a price for things to buy, a status for to-dos, where to watch a show. Tap through them.
Buy
Things to getSomething to purchase: a jacket, a gadget, a deal you don't want to lose track of.
Its field: Price
Personal has its own lock.
One drawer is private. It hides behind Face ID, Touch ID or your fingerprint, with a PIN of its own as the backup.
- 🔑Not your phone's passcode. Someone who knows how to unlock your phone still can't open Personal.
- 🔒Actually encrypted. Titles, links, notes and photos are sealed on your device, even when they sync to your iCloud.
- 🙈Never in search or notifications. A reminder only ever says "including 1 private item".
- 🌫Blurs when you leave. Swipe to the app switcher and the screen hides behind a lock; come back and it's locked again.
- ⚠️Honest catch: forget the PIN with no working Face ID or fingerprint anywhere, and nobody can open it. Not even me.
It does a bit of the remembering for you.
A link on its own is useless, and so is a screenshot you can't search. So Things I Saw quietly fills in the blanks.
Reads the text in your pictures
Saved a screenshot? The words in it become searchable, the first useful line becomes its title, and a price or a shop link it spots gets put to use.
Done on your device by Apple's and Google's built-in text recognition. Your pictures don't get uploaded anywhere.
Watches the price for you
Save something to Buy with a link to its shop page and it checks the price once a day. If it drops, you hear about it right away.
Works with shops that publish their price for apps (lots of smaller online shops do). Shops that hide prices behind scripts get an honest "this shop doesn't show its price to apps".
Turns links into something you'll recognise
A saved link fetches its own preview in the background: the title, the post text and a picture, the same public preview a chat app shows.
https://threads.com/@mika/post/C9xQ2…Private post? Friends-only posts stay behind their login, so you get a five-second "What was this?" prompt instead. It never signs in as you.
Answers to Siri and Shortcuts
Save without opening the app, open your second look, or just ask how many things are waiting. Works from the Action button and Back Tap too.
On Android: long-press the icon for "Add something" and "Worth a second look".
iPhone, Mac and Android.
Native on each one, not a web page in a wrapper. Your iPhone and Mac keep each other up to date through your own iCloud. Android lives on your phone and moves with it.
Mac
- Share from Safari and friends
- Drag photos onto anything
- Review with the arrow keys
- Touch ID for Personal
Android
- Share from any app
- Fingerprint for Personal
- Moves with you to a new phone
- Launcher shortcuts
your own iCloud, between your own devices
Switching between iPhone and Android? Make an encrypted backup file with a password you choose, keep it wherever you like, and open it on the other side. Personal stays sealed inside it and still needs your PIN.
Before you ask.
Isn't this just bookmarks?
Bookmarks assume you'll go back. You won't; nobody does. The point of Things I Saw is the asking-back part: every saved thing either gets a reminder you chose or an occasional check-in, and each one ends with you deciding. Success is the pile getting smaller.
Will it nag me?
No more than once a day, at a time you pick. Everything due that day shares one notification. You can switch check-ins off per drawer, and Personal is off by default.
Do I need an account?
No. There's no sign-up and nothing on my side to log in to. Your things live on your device, and on Apple devices they sync through your own iCloud. The privacy policy spells out the details.
What if the post is private, like a friends-only one?
Then the preview comes back empty, which is normal. The app doesn't try to sneak past a login. You'll get a quick "What was this?" so you can type three words for future-you, and anything you shared along with it (a caption, a photo) is still saved.
Can I get my things out again?
Yes. Export everything as a readable .zip, or make an encrypted backup you can restore on any iPhone, Mac or Android phone.
How much will it cost?
Still settling that. What I can promise: no subscription and no ads.
When can I get it?
iPhone, Mac and Android are launching together, soon. It's on my own phone right now, getting used on real saves every day. Want a heads-up? Email [email protected].