Brain Dump

Northstack/dev

About this app

Brain Dump is the fastest way to clear your head.

Just type what needs doing in plain language – the app automatically detects date, time, range and priority and creates a clean task.

Example: "Call the client tomorrow at 3pm urgent"
Becomes: task "Call the client", tomorrow at 3:00 PM, priority urgent.

While you type, a preview under the input field shows what was understood – before you hit send.

UNDERSTANDS YOUR LANGUAGE

• Days: today, tomorrow, day after tomorrow, weekdays, "next week", "in 2 days"
• Dates the way you type them: "on 11.8", "11.8.2026", "August 5", "Friday", "next Monday"
• Rough targets: "end of the week"
• Multi-day spans: "24.12 to 2.1", "from 1.8 to 15.8"
• Holidays: New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, New Year
• Times in any style: "15:30", "8:30 pm", "3pm", "midnight"
• Morning or evening? "8 in the evening" becomes 8:00 PM, "3 in the afternoon" becomes 3:00 PM
• Ranges: "from 6 to 10 pm", "18–22" – even across midnight
• Durations become end times: "2 pm for 2 hours"
• Priorities: "urgent", "important", "!" – and "someday" for things that can wait

VOICE INSTEAD OF KEYBOARD

• "Hey Google, open capture in Brain Dump" – the app starts right in the input field
• Dictate a task instead of typing – words like "all day" or "no time" are understood too

REPEATING TASKS

• Write "every Monday", "daily" or "every 2 weeks" – the app gets it
• Several days at once: "Mondays and Fridays", "weekdays", "every weekend"
• Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly – with a custom interval
• No rhythm fits? Pick individual days in the calendar – one task, several fixed dates
• Ticked off or the date has passed: the task moves itself to the next occurrence instead of sitting on "overdue"

CALENDAR

• Optional calendar view inside the app: a month to browse, the selected day's tasks below
• If you want, the app writes dated tasks into its own "Brain Dump" calendar on your phone – your other appointments stay untouched
• Both are switchable and off by default

SHARE A SINGLE APPOINTMENT

• Send one task to another person – the dentist appointment to your partner, say
• It travels as a calendar entry and lands straight in their calendar, even without this app
• The other way round works too: tap a shared calendar file and pick Brain Dump
• Only that one task is shared – never the whole list. The app sends nothing by itself; you decide whether and to whom

REMINDERS

• A local notification when something is due – no server, no push service
• You decide how early: on time, 15 minutes, an hour or a day ahead
• Adjustable per task as well

MORE

• Five colours to choose from: violet, blue, green, amber, rose
• Attach photos from gallery or camera – they stay on the device
• A notes field for an address, phone number or context
• Labels with their own colour and icon, filter the list by them
• Search across titles and notes
• History: completed tasks are kept and can be restored
• Overdue one-offs can tick themselves off if you want
• Home-screen widget: your next tasks plus a quick-add button
• Backup: export everything to a file and restore it
• Sorts itself by date, grouped into time sections
• Card or compact list view, light and dark mode

BUILT ACCESSIBLE

• After saving you feel a short pulse and hear and see what was understood
• "Done" and "Delete" are separate, named buttons on every task – directly reachable with TalkBack
• Times can be typed instead of set on a clock face
• If you have animations turned off, you get none
• German and English, fully translated down to the date format

PRIVATE

• Tasks and photos stay on your device – no servers, no cloud, no account, no tracking, no ads
• The app does not even hold the permission to access the internet – you can verify that under "Permissions" in the store
• Only what you actively use: microphone for dictation, camera or gallery when attaching a photo, calendar only if you enable the sync

For everyone who wants to capture thoughts quickly without clicking through forms.