Capture
Drop in the thing as it is: text, photo, email, screenshot, voice note or half-formed thought.
fictional example
“Building access form due Friday. I keep forgetting where the email went.”
adminvoice note
hand it over holds the loose ends so you can concentrate on what matters now.
Public front door to a larger product in build · Capture · Held items · Today · Control
You don’t have to hold it all in your head.
Capture the thing in whatever form it comes in — a thought, email, screenshot, voice note or loose reminder. hand it over is the hand-over loop at the centre of a larger life-admin product: capture it, keep it held, and bring back the next thing that needs you.
Built in Australiadesigned for personal cognitive loadprototype development in progress
how it works
You don’t have to make it neat before you hand it over.
Messy is totally fine. A calm place to hand something over before your brain has turned it into a tidy task list.
Decode
hand it over pulls out the useful bits, so you don't have to work it all out from scratch.
what it finds
DueFriday
TypeReply
SourceBuilding email
Hold
Things that can wait stay visible and held, without living rent-free in your head.
what waits
dentist · Thursdayrent letter · Julyuniform note · later
Held until it matters — you don't need to keep remembering it.
You decide
Accept, edit, defer or delete. Nothing acts on its own; control stays with you.
what control looks like
revieweditlaterdeleteaccept
Suggestions stay suggestions until you choose.
what it does
One clear action, with the rest held.
Capture the thing as it is. See what matters now. Keep the rest held until it needs you.
Fictional prototype examples · controls shown are illustrative
Good morning. Here's what matters.
Building access reply by Friday
The rest is held below — no action today.
Not lost. Not nagging.
Thursday is crowded. Want this moved, parked, or kept visible?
Keep visible. Remind me tomorrow morning.
Done. Held until 8:30am — nothing to do now.
Control stays obvious.
Quiet modeon
Export my dataready
Delete held itemavailable
why it helps
You can put it down without losing it.
When something is captured, held and able to come back at the right time, you don't have to keep rehearsing it in your head.
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Held until it matters
Not gone, just held until it needs you again.
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No perfect words needed
Say it, paste it, screenshot it or forward it.
✓
Only what needs you
The rest can stay quiet until it matters.