Home for notes, tasks, and knowledge.
One simple list for everything on your mind. Notes, to-dos, plans, ideas and files live together, so you stop hunting across five apps. Nothing to set up — just start typing.
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One list, for all of it.
Your project, your shopping list, today’s plan and your journal sit in the same place. Nothing to configure, nothing to keep in sync by hand.
Everything in one place
Notes, tasks, plans, journal, files. Put anything under anything, and open any line as its own page when it grows.
Nothing to set up
No templates, no databases, no folders to design. A bullet is the only building block, and it does everything.
Always with you
Phone, laptop, or offline on a train. Your list is on every device, and it stays yours.
Start small, grow without limits.
Write a line. Put the details under it. When a line turns into a project, open it as its own page and keep going. Nothing is ever too big for a list, because a list can hold lists.
Click any bullet to open it as a page; breadcrumbs take you back.
Block time by dragging a task onto your day.
Today’s tasks sit next to today’s meetings. Drag any task onto the timeline and it gets a half-hour block you can stretch or move; the task itself stays where it was. Your Google Calendar shows beside it, so you block time in the day you actually have.
Calendar events are shown, not changed. Nothing goes into your calendar unless you choose to add it.
A journal you’ll actually keep.
One shortcut opens today’s entry from anywhere. Write a line, or three. Anything you date shows up on that day, so the journal and the calendar tell one story.
Ctrl+J starts today’s entry with the date already in place.
Find it without remembering where you put it.
You do not have to remember where you put it, or what you called it. One search box, and Nested List looks for it several ways at once:
- The words you wrote, even with typos.
- What you meant, not just what you typed.
- The text inside your PDFs and documents.
- The text in your photos and screenshots.
- What is in the picture.
- File names and the notes on files.
Press ⌘K anywhere. PDF text is read on your device. Reading photos and search by meaning use AI and are on from the start. One switch in Settings, “Allow sending to AI models”, turns all AI off on every device.
Your files live next to your notes.
Drop in photos, PDFs and documents. They stay with the note they belong to, open in place, and the text inside your PDFs is searchable — photos too, once you turn that on.
Paste, drag in from your desktop, or attach from the menu.
Done means gone — until you want it back.
Finished items fade out of the way so the list only shows what is left. One click brings them back when you need the record.
⌘Enter completes an item; the eye icon in the header shows or hides completed ones.
Pick it up wherever you are.
Everything you write is on your device first, so nothing waits for a connection. Open the same list on your phone, your laptop and your work machine; changes meet in the middle, and if two devices edit the same line, both versions are kept.
It follows your system’s light or dark setting, installs like an app, and gets out of the way.
Install it from your browser’s menu; share a link or a thought straight into the journal.
What people keep in it.
A few of the ways one list replaces a pile of apps.
Plan your day
Tasks, meetings and notes on one page for today, with a timeline that shows the day you actually have.
See how →Keep a journal
One shortcut, one line, done. Entries live next to your plans, not in an app you forget to open.
See how →Run a project
Goals, tasks, decisions and dates in one outline, with the to-dos also on the day you will do them.
See how →Build a second brain
A knowledge base that grows with you: notes, quotes, PDFs and screenshots, linked the way you think and found years later.
See how →Plan a month of posts
Ideas, drafts, shot lists, dates and results, from hook to published, without a spreadsheet.
See how →
Build a board
A wardrobe, a room, a trip: rows of pictures with your notes between them, and every picture findable by what is in it.
See how →
Do your research
Quotes, facts, half-thoughts, screenshots and PDFs go in as they arrive. Rearrange when the shape appears; search finds all of it.
See how →Your notes stay yours.
A full copy of your list lives on your own device, and it is never locked in. Export everything at any time as one backup file, or as a folder of Markdown documents you can open anywhere.
Settings is a short list: light or dark, where the app opens, and one switch for AI. Turn that off and nothing of yours goes to an AI model, on any of your devices.
Settings → Data. Export any time; nothing is ever held back.
Honest comparisons.
Each one says where the other tool is better. Some of them are.
Nested List vs Apple Notes
Apple Notes is a great notes app. Nested List is for when your notes become to-dos, plans and a journal, and you want them all in one place.
Read the comparison →Nested List vs Notion
Notion can become anything if you build it. Nested List is one list that needs no building, and stays fast enough to think in.
Read the comparison →Nested List vs Obsidian
Obsidian is a toolkit of Markdown files and plugins. Nested List is one list with the day plan and journal built in, for people who would rather write.
Read the comparison →Everything on your mind, in one place.
Open Nested List, type your first line, and put the next thought under it. That is the whole setup.