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Your thoughts, coming back when they matter.

Unforget is a place to put a thought down and have it return at exactly the right moment: connected to the other thoughts it belongs with. This is the complete guide, five minutes end to end.

01The one rule: just write it down

There is one box. Type what needs doing, or tap the mic and say it. Hit Save (or Ctrl+Enter). Everything you write here is a task. That's the entire filing system: no folders, no tags, no titles, no decisions.

The moment a task lands, Unforget searches everything you've ever saved and shows you what it connects to, each with a short line explaining why:

That echo is the product. A task list that only remembers what you typed is a list; one that tells you what you already wrote about it, or that you have done this before, is worth keeping.

02Reading your list

There are two tabs: Tasks and Food. Tasks is where the app opens, because it is where the work is.

• Open tasks sit at the top, finished ones below, struck through.
• Glowing dots on a task show it is tied to things you have written before. Tap them to read those, each with the reason it belongs.
• When several open tasks turn out to be tied to each other they are drawn together under "these belong together". Finish enough of them and the group dissolves on its own.
• "Remember this?" greets you when you open the app: something older, resurfaced. It is never an open task, since those are already in the list below it.
• The header keeps score: your day streak and your total saved.

03Search and Ask

The search box sits above your tasks, with three filters: All, Open and Done. Pick Done to search only finished work, which is where the "did I already do that, and when?" answers live.

If you wrote notes back when Unforget kept a separate thoughts list, they are still here. They still feed the connections on your tasks, and they turn up under Notes when a search reaches them.

Ask your mind (Pro) sits beside your task list and goes further: type a real question and press Enter, and Unforget answers using only what you have written, quoting them back with dates. Ask "what do I actually believe about pricing?" and meet your own mind. 25 questions a day. Ending a question with "?" and pressing Enter also asks.

04Voice

Tap the mic (Pro), speak, and your words land in the box. Recognition happens on your device. Tap again to stop, edit if you like, save.

05Sharing, and what stays private

Everything is private by default. Sharing happens one thought at a time, only when you choose it: tap the arrow icon at the top-right of a thought card, or open the thought and tap share. That creates a beautiful public page and image card for that single thought, and nothing else.

• Shared links can be revoked anytime: open the thought, tap unshare, and the link dies instantly.
• Your thoughts are encrypted at rest on our servers.
• Our admin tools show counts and activity, not the content of your thoughts. The one exception is a safety review: an operator can open an account's thoughts when there is an abuse report, a legal request, or a safety concern, and every review is logged with the operator's name, the reason, and the time.
• We never train AI models on your thoughts or sell your data. The business model is a paid subscription, not you. Pro being free right now does not change that: we still do not train on your thoughts and still do not sell your data.

06Adding tasks

Everything you write in the box is a task, so there is nothing to flip and nothing to decide. Two ways in:

• One at a time: type it and save. Flip Star it as top priority first if it should lead the list.
• Paste a whole list: tap Paste a to-do list under the box, drop in your list with one item per line (or attach a .txt file), and Unforget adds every item at once. It strips bullets, numbers, and checkboxes and skips duplicates for you.

However you do it, the thought keeps all its connections and moves to your task list. It leaves the Thoughts tab, so that tab stays what it says it is.

• See them: tap the Tasks tab (the count on it is live). Open tasks have a circle checkbox; done tasks sit below, struck through.
• Get reminded: the Tasks tab carries your open count and your weekly digest includes a "Still open" list. Once you have tasks, the app opens on your task list.
• It knows what you have already written. Add a task that repeats one you already have and Unforget says "you already have a task about this", shows the original, and offers to undo the one you just added. Nothing is deleted without you saying so.
• Follow a task's thread: dots beside the date mean this task is tied to things you have written before. Tap them to see those, each with the reason it belongs.
• Related tasks group themselves. When several open tasks turn out to be tied to each other, they are drawn together at the top of your list under "these belong together". Finish enough of them and the group dissolves on its own. Nothing to file, nothing to tag.
• Complete one: tap the circle. Tap a done task to reopen it.
• Search what you finished: the search box above your tasks has three filters, All, Open and Done. Pick Done to search only finished work, which is where the "did I already do that, and when?" answers live. Your whole history is reachable, not just the most recent few.
• Clear one: on your phone, swipe a task left to remove it from the list (or tap "untask" on desktop). Removing a task never deletes the thought.

07Count what you eat

Unforget also keeps your food log, in the same spirit as everything else here: you describe it in plain words and the app does the arithmetic. No hunting through a database of 400 kinds of yoghurt, no weighing anything. And when the food does have a barcode on the package, point the camera at it and the exact label numbers are logged for you.

Tap the Food tab, then write what you ate the way you would say it out loud:

• two scrambled eggs, two slices of buttered toast, and a large black coffee
• chicken caesar salad from a restaurant and a diet coke
• handful of almonds

It breaks the meal into its parts, tells you what quantity it assumed for each, and adds up the calories along with protein, carbohydrate and fat. Where you do not give a quantity it assumes one normal serving and says so, so the assumption is always visible.

Or just say it. Tap the microphone beside the box and speak the meal instead of typing it (Pro).

Scan a barcode

For packaged food, tap the barcode button beside the box and point the camera at the barcode. Unforget looks the product up in Open Food Facts, a free open database of over three million products, and logs the exact label nutrition rather than an estimate. Tell it how much you had, one serving or a number of grams, and it does the arithmetic.

• First scan: your phone asks for camera permission once. Nothing is recorded; frames are read on your device and only the barcode number is sent to look the product up.
• No camera handy? Type the number printed under the bars into the box on the scan screen instead.
• Product not found? Open Food Facts is community-built and enormous but not complete. If a product is missing, just describe it in words like any other meal.

Between the three ways in, the rule of thumb is: scan packaged things, describe cooked things. A protein bar has a barcode and an exact label; a plate of dinner does not.

Set a goal, not just a number

Tap set a goal under your daily total and tell Unforget your age, height, current weight, the weight you want, the date you want it by, and roughly how active you are. It works out what you burn and sets the daily calorie number that gets you there. Works in kg and cm or in lb and in.

Two things it deliberately will not do: it will not set a target below 1,200 calories for women or 1,500 for men, and it will not chase an unrealistic date. Ask for ten kilos in a fortnight and it will give you a safe pace and tell you honestly when you would actually arrive. If you already know the number you want, tap Just set a number instead.

Meals you eat often

Log something twice and it appears as a Log again chip above the box. One tap re-logs it with the calories it had last time. Most people eat the same breakfast a few hundred times a year, and this is the difference between keeping a food log for a week and keeping one for a year.

Living with it

• Your day at a glance: calories so far, how many are left against your target, and a macro breakdown across protein, carbs and fat.
• Correct anything: tap fix calories on any entry to type the real number yourself. Your correction sticks and the day retotals.
• Remove an entry: tap remove. Nothing else in your log is touched.
• See the pattern: a seven-day strip under the list shows how the week is actually going, which is usually more useful than any single day.
• In your weekly digest: Pro members get the week's calories in the same email as the threads in their thinking, including which days went over.

The part no other food app can do

Every other calorie app knows what you ate and nothing else about your life. Unforget already holds your thoughts. Because both live in the same private place, you can ask questions that span the two:

• "Do I eat differently in weeks when I write about being stressed?"
• "What was I eating on the days I wrote that I felt sharp?"
• "How does my eating compare to my target lately?"

Type it into Ask (Pro) and the answer draws on your own thoughts and your own food log together, by date. No other app on your phone has both halves.

How accurate is it?

Honestly: very good on anything you describe precisely, and a reasonable guess on anything you do not. We checked it against published reference values for eight common foods and it landed within about 2 percent on average, exact on several. A Big Mac came back at 550 against the official 580; a medium banana, a cup of cooked rice, a slice of bread and a can of Coke were all essentially spot on.

The error lives in portions, not in the food knowledge. Write "a bowl of pasta" and it has to guess whose bowl. Write "lunch at the pub" and it has to guess what lunch was, which is exactly the case where you should glance at the assumptions it printed and tap fix calories if it guessed wrong. It is deliberately realistic rather than optimistic about restaurant portions, oil and dressings.

For the purpose most people actually have, which is noticing patterns rather than auditing every gram, an honest estimate you will keep up with beats a precise one you abandon in a week.

Your food log is private, exactly like your thoughts, and it never appears in your thought stream or in anything you share.

08The weekly digest

Once a week (Pro), Unforget emails you the threads forming in your thinking: two or three themes it found across your week, one resurfaced gem from your past, your open tasks, and one question your own thoughts are quietly asking. One email, once a week, one-click off if you don't want it.

09Free vs Pro

Every account is on Pro at no cost right now. The table below is what the two plans contain. Turn Pro on during the current offer and it stays on your account after the offer ends. Read the announcement.

Feature	Free	Pro · free right now
Thoughts per day	5	Unlimited
Connections on every save	✓	✓
Semantic search	✓	✓
Sharing	✓	✓
Tasks & reminders	✓	✓
Calorie counter	3 meals/day	Unlimited
Goal planner & food in your digest	✗	✓
Voice capture	✗	✓
Ask your own mind	✗	25/day
Weekly threads digest	✗	✓

The five free thoughts refill at midnight, every day, forever. Upgrading takes one minute inside the app.

10Install it like an app

Unforget lives on your home screen with its own icon and no browser chrome:

• iPhone: open unforget.hifriendbot.com in Safari → tap Share → Add to Home Screen.
• Android: open it in Chrome → menu (⋮) → Add to Home screen (or "Install app").
• Desktop: in Chrome or Edge, click the install icon in the address bar.

11FAQ

What should I put in it?

Anything your brain says "I should remember this" about: ideas, hunches, things you learned, problems you're chewing on, lines you liked, plans, worries. The connections get better with everything you add.

How does the calorie counter work?

You describe the meal in plain words and Unforget breaks it into items, states the quantity it assumed for each, and totals the calories plus protein, carbs and fat. Packaged foods can also be scanned by barcode, which logs the exact label nutrition from the Open Food Facts database instead of an estimate. Tap fix calories on any entry to override any number yourself.

Can Unforget set my calorie goal for me?

Yes. Give it your age, height, current weight, goal weight, target date and activity level and it calculates what you burn and the daily number that reaches your goal at a safe pace. It refuses to go below 1,200 calories for women or 1,500 for men, and if your date is unrealistic it tells you when you would really get there instead.

Can I ask how my eating relates to my mood or my week?

Yes, and this is the thing no other food app can do. Your thoughts and your food log live in the same private place, so Ask can answer questions that span both, such as whether you eat differently in weeks you write about being stressed.

Is the calorie estimate accurate?

It is a good guide rather than a lab measurement, and it is deliberately realistic about restaurant portions, oil and dressings. The more specific your description, the closer it lands. You can correct any entry by hand, and the seven-day strip matters more than any single day.

Does my food log show up in my thoughts?

No. The food log is a separate view, it never appears in your thought stream, and it is never part of anything you share.

Is it a notes app?

No. Notes apps are filing cabinets: they only give back what you go looking for. Unforget brings thoughts back to you, connected, without being asked.

What happens to my thoughts if I cancel Pro?

Nothing. Every thought stays yours and visible; you just return to five new thoughts a day.

Can I use it for work and personal thoughts together?

Yes: the connections often get most interesting exactly where work and life overlap.

I forgot my password.

On the log in screen tap I forgot my password and enter your email. A reset link arrives by email, works for one hour and can be used once. Setting a new password signs out every device that was signed in, and your thoughts are untouched.

I found a bug or want a feature.

Email [email protected]. A human reads it.