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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 weighing anything. When it is a single food, start typing its name and pick it from the list, with real portion sizes. And when the food has a barcode on the package, point the camera at it and the exact label numbers are logged for you.

Tap the Food tab. The bright box at the very top, labelled What did you eat?, is where everything starts: type a food name to search, describe a whole meal, or use the microphone, barcode and camera buttons under it. 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).

Pick it from the list

Start typing a food, banana or fried egg or chicken breast, and a short list appears under the search box at the top of the Food tab: 5,431 everyday foods from the USDA food survey database, each with real portion sizes such as one medium, one cup or one slice. Tap the one you mean, choose the portion and how many, or switch to By amount and type any quantity in grams, ounces, pounds or kilograms, or for drinks in millilitres, fluid ounces, cups, tablespoons or teaspoons, and it is logged with exact numbers and no guessing. Ate two instead of one? Tap edit on the entry and the same sheet comes back with your choice filled in. The list is searched on our own server, so it is instant and nothing about you goes to a third party. Type a brand, Kirkland chicken breast or Chobani vanilla, and a second group, Packaged & branded, appears under the everyday foods a moment later: label nutrition for 1.9 million packaged products from the USDA branded food database, searched on our own server, with Open Food Facts filling in imports and brands the USDA list lacks. Every picked or scanned entry carries a facts link to its public nutrition page. If what you typed is not in either list, the last row logs it as described instead.

My foods and recipes

Tap my foods under the daily totals to keep your own list. A food is a name plus the nutrition for one serving, typed from a label or a recipe you know, with an optional serving weight so you can also log it by grams or ounces. A recipe is built from ingredients you pick with the same search as the food box, each with an amount in a listed portion or any weight or volume, split into however many servings it makes; Unforget works out the per-serving numbers. Both show up first, under My foods, the moment you type their name, and log through the same portion sheet as anything else.

Log from a photo

Tap the camera button beside the box and photograph the plate. Unforget names what it sees, assumes a realistic portion for each item and says so in the name, and logs the meal like one you described in words, so edit and fix calories work the same way. Point it at a nutrition facts label instead and it reads the label exactly for one serving, which covers products that are in no database. The photo is shrunk on your phone, sent once, and not kept.

Macro targets

The three macro tiles are now progress bars. Tap macro targets under the dashboard and pick a split: Balanced (30 percent of calories from protein, 40 carbs, 30 fat), High protein (35 / 35 / 30, with protein floored at 1.6 g per kilo of your weight when the plan knows it), Low carb (30 / 20 / 50), Keto (25 / 5 / 70), or Custom grams of your own. Presets are worked out from your calorie target, so when the target changes the grams move with it. Each tile shows what is left for the day and turns amber when you pass it.

Net carbs

Tap net carbs on under the dashboard and the carb tile shows carbs minus fiber, the number low-carb and keto eaters count. Choosing the Keto preset turns it on for you. It is a view, not a change to the data: every entry still stores total carbs and fiber.

Where the calories come from

A line under the tiles shows the day's calories split between protein, carbs and fat as percentages, with the 7-day figure beside it, so you can see at a glance whether a day was carb-heavy or protein-heavy. The same line appears on shared days and weeks and in the weekly digest.

Every nutrient

Every entry carries sixteen numbers: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, total sugar, sodium, saturated fat, cholesterol, potassium, calcium, iron, vitamin C, vitamin D, caffeine and alcohol. They come from the USDA data for list and branded foods, from the label for scans, and are estimated for described and photographed meals. The fiber, sugar and sodium line sits under the tiles; tap all nutrients beside it for the full panel, for the day or as a 7-day average, each against its daily value where one exists (the FDA label values; caffeine uses the FDA's 400 mg guidance, and alcohol shows standard drinks). Your own foods take the same fields under More nutrients, which are optional. Anything logged before October 2026 shows zero for the nine newer nutrients.

Weight trend

Once you have logged weight on two different days, a small chart appears above the water and weight strip: the last 90 days, the change since the first entry, and the low and high, in the units you chose in the goal planner.

Change an entry

Every entry has edit. For a food you picked from the list or scanned, it reopens the portion sheet with your choice filled in, so one egg becomes two in a tap. For a meal you described, it gives you the words back to change and count again. Fix calories is still there when you want to type a number yourself, and remove does what it says.

Same as yesterday, and recent picks

Open the Food tab on an empty day and, if yesterday had entries, one button logs the whole day again. Tap into the empty food box and your recent picks appear before you type a letter, so the second banana of the week is one tap. Meals you have logged more than once still show up as Log again chips.

Meals, water and weight

Entries sort themselves into breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks from the time you log them, with a total per meal. Tap the meal tag on any entry to move it. Under the dashboard, a water counter takes a tap per glass, and weight takes a number a day. If you have set a goal, your daily target moves with your weight instead of sitting on the number from the day you set it.

Share a day, a meal, or a week

Tap share this day or share week under the totals, or share on any entry, and you get a link to a clean page with the numbers and the entries, nothing else from your log. The share sheet offers Telegram, WhatsApp, text, email and X directly, plus your phone's own share menu, and the link carries a preview card with the big number on it. Send it to a coach, a partner, a family thread, a friend you are keeping honest with. Edits show through until you tap Stop sharing, which kills the link. The weekly digest email carries a share-your-week link too.

Scan a barcode

For packaged food, tap the barcode button beside the box and point the camera at the barcode. Unforget looks the code up first in the USDA branded food database held on our own server, 1.9 million products with their barcodes, and then 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: the label serving and how many of them, or By amount in grams, ounces, pounds or kilograms, or for drinks millilitres, fluid ounces, cups, tablespoons or teaspoons, and it does the arithmetic. Every scanned entry keeps a facts link to the product's public nutrition page.

• 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, or simply type the product's name and pick it from the Packaged & branded group.
• Product not found? Both databases are 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: pick single foods from the list, describe cooked meals, scan packaged 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.

08Receipts in, the shopping list writes itself

Open the Shop tab after a trip and tap Scan a receipt. Unforget reads every line, turns "KRO 2% MILK GAL" into plain milk, 1 gallon, and the items become your staples list on the spot. From then on it watches how long each thing lasts in your house. When milk is about to run out, it lands on one Shopping list task on your Tasks tab by itself, with the reason underneath: last bought Oct 10, a gallon lasts about 7 days, likely out Tuesday. One task, however long the list; it opens into tick boxes.

It works like an airport sizing its fuel order from daily traffic: a guess on the first receipt, a better guess on every one after. Three dots on each item show how sure it is. Things you cannot be without (milk, coffee, toilet paper) go on the list a little earlier than things you can.

• Where the list is. The Shopping list section at the top of the Shop tab is what to buy now, and the same items sit in a single Shopping list task on your Tasks tab, so the list is with you in the store. Tap the task to open it; the rest of the Shop tab (coming up, staples, spending, receipts) is folded away under headings you tap to open.
• Ticking an item counts as buying it. Inside the Shopping list task, tick what goes in the cart; ticking the task itself means you got everything. You do not have to scan every trip for it to keep learning. A receipt later the same week replaces the guess with the real quantity and price.
• The list is yours to edit and send. Type anything into the Add something box inside the task (or at the top of the Shop tab) and it is on the list until someone buys it or takes it off. The pencil on an item adds a note for the shopper ("the blue box, two of them"), renames it, or takes it off for this trip. Under the items: copy the list as text, email it to someone, send it by text, WhatsApp, Telegram or the share sheet, or attach a photo or file to it, the same as any task. Family members can add things from their family page too.
• Tell it about an unusual trip. Every scan has chips for Stocking up, Guests (with the dates), Party and Back to normal, plus a free note. A Costco run raises what you have on hand without teaching it that you suddenly use three times as much; a week of guests is counted while they are there and forgotten when they leave.
• Still have some pushes an item back and the guess learns from that. Sooner and later nudge when it shows up. Not a thing I rebuy takes an item off for good; find it again under Not rebought.
• Family. Tap Family and share the link. It opens a camera page that needs no account: whoever did the shopping scans the receipt and the whole house's list learns. Someone who already uses Unforget taps the same link to join with their account, and the same Shopping list task shows on their Tasks too. Ticking an item on any phone clears it everywhere.
• The date on the receipt is the purchase date. Scan a week of receipts from the kitchen drawer in one sitting and each one lands on the day it was printed. Only fill in Bought on when the receipt has no readable date. Scan the same receipt twice and Unforget says so instead of counting it twice (same day, same store, same total or the same lines), with a Save it anyway button for the rare real repeat.
• Paste a receipt takes an emailed order confirmation from Amazon, Instacart, Kroger and the like, read the same way as a photo.
• What you eat counts too. Logging two eggs in the Food tab is evidence about how fast eggs go. The food log and the receipts teach the same list.
• Spending. Under the staples, a card shows this month's grocery spend and last month's. Tap it for the month-by-month bars, totals by store, this month by category, and three things only a pile of receipts can tell you: which items went up or down in price since you started (and by how much), which store sells a thing cheaper when you have bought it in more than one place, and what each staple costs you a year at the pace you go through it.

Receipts are read once and the photo is not kept. The lines are stored as plain product names in your own private memory, so Ask can answer "when did I last buy coffee filters" and "what did we spend at Meijer this month".

09The 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. If you log food, the week's calories come along with a share your week link. One email, once a week, one-click off if you don't want it.

10Free 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	✗	✓
Receipt reading (Shop)	4 receipts/month	Unlimited
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.

11Install it like an app

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

• Easiest: tap install app at the top of Unforget. On Android and desktop Chrome or Edge that installs it in one tap; on iPhone it shows the three taps below.
• 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.

12FAQ

How does the shopping list write itself?

Scan a receipt in the Shop tab and the items become your staples. From the gaps between purchases Unforget learns how fast your house uses each thing, works out roughly what is left, and adds it to a single Shopping list task on your Tasks before you run out, with the reason under each item. Tick items inside the task as you shop; each tick counts as buying it, so it keeps learning even when you forget to scan. Chips on each scan (stocking up, guests, party) stop an unusual week from skewing the guess, and a family link lets anyone in the house scan without an account.

Does it show what I spend?

Yes. The Spending card under your staples shows this month and last month. Tap it for month-by-month bars, totals by store and by category, which items went up or down in price since you started scanning, which store is cheaper for something you have bought in two places, and what each staple costs you a year at the pace you use it. Nothing to enter: it is all read from the receipts you already scanned.

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, with targets for all three that you pick as a split (balanced, high protein, low carb, keto or your own grams), a net carbs view, the percentage of calories from each macro, and a full nutrient panel (fiber, sugar, sodium, saturated fat, cholesterol, potassium, calcium, iron, vitamins C and D, caffeine and alcohol) against daily values. Single foods can be picked from a built-in list of 5,431 USDA foods with real portion sizes, packaged and branded products can be found by typing the name or scanned by barcode, which logs the exact label nutrition instead of an estimate, and every picked or scanned entry has a facts link to its public nutrition page. A photo of the plate or of a nutrition label logs it too, your own foods and recipes live under my foods, and every entry carries fiber, sugar and sodium as well as the macros. Tap edit on any entry to change the portion or how many, or to reword a described meal and count it again, and fix calories to override any number yourself. Entries group into breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, an empty day can copy yesterday, water and weight sit under the dashboard, and any day, meal or week can be shared as a link to Telegram, WhatsApp, text, email or X.

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.