Short answer: Mouthful. You talk for a minute with no structure and no editing, and it hands back a sorted list with dates and reminders already attached. Every other option keeps your words and leaves the sorting to you, which is the part people never get around to.
Getting everything out of your head in one pass, without stopping to decide where any of it goes. Not a to-do list, not journalling. Just the full unload: the thing you owe someone, the appointment you half remember, the idea you had in the shower, the thing that has been quietly bothering you for a week.
The reason people do it is that holding it all is expensive. You cannot think clearly while a background process is busy remembering that you need to call the dentist.
They work fine right up until the end, and then they hand you a second job.
You dump into a notes app and you get a wall of text. You dump onto paper and you get a page you will not look at again. Either way the raw dump is not usable, so now you have to sit down and turn it into something. That step is where it dies, every time, because it needs exactly the focus you were dumping to get back.
A brain dump you have to tidy up afterwards is just one more thing on your list.
The Daily Dump is one minute of talking, once a day. No structure, no order, no editing, no thinking about categories while you speak. Say it however it arrives.
What comes back is sorted:
That last group is the part nothing else in this category does at all. Most apps make everything you said into a to-do, which is how a brain dump turns into a list of forty items you are now behind on.
Both work, and they do different jobs.
Morning is planning. You unload, you see the day laid out, you start.
Night is closing the loop. You empty everything you are still carrying so you can stop turning it over. This is the one people write to us about unprompted, and it was not what we built it for.
Users tell us they forget far fewer things once the habit sticks, which is the whole point of doing it daily rather than in a panic once a fortnight.
About a minute. Long enough to empty out, short enough that you will do it tomorrow. Mouthful is built around that length deliberately.
No. That is the entire difference. It comes back sorted, dated and grouped.
Good. That is the input it was designed for. Four things in one sentence, out of order, with a date buried in the middle and a correction halfway through, all come back correctly separated.
Yes, and generously so by the standards of this category. Free to start and free to keep using, with a paid tier that removes the AI limit. Most people never need it.
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