Mindrop didn’t start as a *product idea.*It began with one unmistakable pattern: my mind drifting off without warning, pulled by thoughts I didn’t want to lose.

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I’m the kind of person who can be in the middle of something important—work, family stuff, cooking, trying to relax—and my brain will suddenly throw a thought at me like a rogue notification:

“Don’t forget to do that tomorrow.”
“This is a good idea—save it.”
“Remember to buy that thing.”
“Send that message.”
“Fix that bug later.”

The problem wasn’t that I had no system.
The problem was that most systems asked me to think too much at the exact moment I had the least attention available.

The problem wasn’t “lack of productivity”

When a thought shows up at the wrong time, you have two bad options:

Ignore it, and risk forgetting it.
Hold it in your head, and pay for it with mental clutter.

That second one is sneaky. Even if you don’t forget, the thought keeps looping in the background like an open browser tab you can’t close.

What I wanted was a third option:

Drop the thought somewhere safe, instantly—then get back to my life.

I didn’t want a “note app.” I wanted an inbox.

At first, I wasn’t trying to build a full notes product. I didn’t want a notebook. I wanted an inbox—a place to dump thoughts fast so they stop bouncing around my head.

I’ve tried the big players. They’re powerful. They’re also easy to bounce off when your mind is noisy, because they quietly ask you a bunch of questions right away:

Where does this go?
Is it a task or a note?
What tag should it have?
Which folder? Which template? Which “system”?

When you’re distracted, every extra decision is friction.
And friction is how thoughts disappear or worse, how they stick around as clutter.

The first rule: capture has to be instant

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So I started building Mindrop around a simple constraint:

The first screen should feel like an inbox, not a dashboard.
Adding a note should feel like one action, not a flow.
Organization should be optional, not required.

I didn’t mind writing a thought down.
I did mind being forced to organize it before I’d even captured it.

That became the guiding rule:

If it interrupts momentum, it doesn’t belong in the core flow.

Prefixes: structure that doesn’t break the flow

I still wanted some structure - just not the kind that drags you into a decision tree.

So I leaned into something that felt almost too simple: prefixes.
Tiny labels you can type in a blink:

idea:
remind:
medication:
todo:

It’s lightweight categorizing that your brain can do without stopping. And because I built Mindrop while actively using it, I could feel immediately when something slowed me down—so I kept stripping friction out.

Mindrop also surfaces the prefixes you use most, so the “structure” stays close to your habits instead of turning into another system to maintain.

Retrieval is the real test

Capturing is only half the problem.

The real test is: can you find it again when it matters?
If not, every note app becomes a graveyard of good intentions.

So I designed Mindrop around two retrieval modes that match how my memory actually works:

If I remember the type, I filter by prefix.
If I remember any word, I search.

Less scrolling. More “there it is.”
That moment is when a tool goes from “nice idea” to “actually useful.”

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I’m the first user - now I’m looking for the next ones

Mindrop already clears the highest bar for me: I trust it enough to use it as part of my day.

Now I want to answer a more interesting question:

Does this help other people too?

If you’re someone whose mind moves fast, who gets ideas at inconvenient times, who doesn’t want a complicated system—this might fit you the way it fits me.

Mindrop is currently in a closed beta on Android, because I want real humans, real habits, real chaos - then improvements based on what actually happens, not what I assume will happen.

Want to be one of the next users?

Join the google group: https://lnkd.in/dUg4Qk_5
Download the app: https://lnkd.in/dTqjC9R8

The goal

Mindrop isn’t trying to be your second brain.
It’s trying to be your tiny inbox - the place thoughts land so you can get back to living.

I built it to solve my problem first.
Now I’m curious whether it can solve yours too.