Quietkeep holds what you put down, and brings it back.
You do not have to remember to look.
There is one thing worth setting up now: ask this browser to keep
your writing rather than treat it as disposable.
On iPad you will be asked to allow
notifications. Allow it — on Apple devices that permission is
the only thing that lets the browser keep your planner for good instead of
clearing it, so it is what makes your writing safe. It does nothing else:
Quietkeep never sends notifications. When you want reminding
of something, you send it to your calendar (there is a button for it under
the i), and the calendar — which runs when this app
does not — is what reaches you.
You can skip this and do it later. It is always under
the i at the top.
What Quietkeep is
Quietkeep holds everything you put down and brings it back on its own —
so you do not have to hold it in your head, or remember to look. It is a
planner that lives entirely on your device: no account, no sign-in, and no
server holding your writing, because there is no server.
Quietkeep holds everything you put down and brings it back on its own —
so you do not have to hold it in your head, or remember to look. It is a
planner that lives on your devices: no account, no sign-in, and nothing
readable ever leaves them — what your devices trade is sealed with a
key only they hold.
How to use it
Three things, and the app does the rest:
- Put it down the moment it occurs to you — one box,
nothing to fill in, no folder to choose.
- Sort it when you have a moment — Quietkeep walks you
through what you dumped, one card at a time, with a choice you cannot get
wrong.
- Do the next thing — it hands you the single thing
worth doing now, and quietly brings each item back when its time comes.
You never file anything or set reminders by hand. Dates, repeats and nudges
are the app’s job, not yours.
Add it to your home screen
Quietkeep runs in the browser, but it is better on your home screen: it
opens like an app, works with no signal, and it is where the browser can
hold onto your planner for good.
- iPhone or iPad (Safari): tap the Share button, then
Add to Home Screen.
- Android or a computer (Chrome / Edge): open the browser
menu and choose Install, or use the install icon in the
address bar.
The notification prompt, and why it appears. On iPhone and
iPad, adding Quietkeep asks you to allow notifications. Allow it: on Apple
devices that permission is the one thing that lets the browser keep your
planner instead of clearing it after a while — so allowing it is what
keeps your writing safe, and that is the only reason it is asked. It does
nothing else. Quietkeep itself never sends notifications
— it has no server to send them from and will not ping you. Reminders
work a different way: when you want to be reminded of something, use
Send to my calendar under “Reminders that reach you”
below. Your calendar keeps running when Quietkeep is closed, so it is the
thing that can actually reach you.
Nothing is uploaded when you install — it is the same app, given its
own icon.
Quietkeep is on your home screen — it opens on its own and works offline.
It does not send notifications; when you want to be reminded of something, use
Send to my calendar under “Reminders that reach you” below,
and your calendar — which runs when this app does not — is what
reaches you.
Short answers to the things people ask. Tap one to open it.
How do I get something out of my head?
Type it in the box at the top and press Hold it. One line is
enough — you are only getting it down, not sorting it. Do that as often
as things occur to you; sorting comes later, on your terms.
What happens to everything I put in?
When you have a moment, Quietkeep offers each one back to you,
one at a time, with a small choice: a thing to do, something you are waiting
on someone else for, or just a note to keep. Nothing piles up unsorted where
you cannot see it.
How does it decide what to show me next?
It hands you a single next thing — the one most worth
doing now — with a short list behind it, never the whole pile at once.
If it is not the right moment for that one, you can pass, and passing costs
nothing.
What if a date has already gone by?
Nothing here is ever marked late or overdue — that is
deliberate. A date that has passed quietly becomes a card asking when you
would like to look at it again. There is no pile of failures to face.
Will it remind me?
Quietkeep does not send notifications. To be reminded at a set
time, send that item to your calendar with “Send to my calendar”
below — your calendar runs even when this app is closed, so it is the
thing that can actually reach you.
Is my writing private? Where does it live?
Everything stays on this device. No
account, no sign-in, and no server holding your writing, because there is no
server. Nothing about you is collected.
Everything stays on this device
— no account, no sign-in. When your devices trade changes, the copy
that travels is sealed here first, with a key only your devices hold; the
relay it passes through cannot read a word of it. Nothing about you is
collected.
How do I back it up, or move to a new device?
“Export a copy” under Your data saves everything
as one plain file. On another device, “Bringing a copy back” reads
that file and tells you what is in it before anything changes.
Can I keep two devices in step?
There is a separate edition, Quietkeep
Sync, that does exactly that — sealed on your device before anything
leaves, with a key only your devices hold. The default app you are in never
contacts anything at all.
Yes — this is Quietkeep Sync,
the edition that does exactly that: sealed on this device before anything
leaves, with a key only your devices hold. Pairing lives under
“Keeping two devices in step” in Your data.
Why does it work this way?
Every choice here — bringing things back instead of
listing them, never marking anything overdue, one next thing rather than the
whole pile — comes from research on how memory, attention and motivation
actually work, and how that differs for a lot of neurodivergent people. The
full reasoning, with every source named and tagged by how well established it
is, is written up in
Planning for Humans, here in the app.
Storage on this device
Bringing a copy back
Moving to a new device, or restoring after something went wrong. Choose an
exported file and Quietkeep will tell you what is in it before anything
changes.
Take in what I don’t have adds anything this copy has and
this device doesn’t, and removes nothing — that is the one for
carrying your work between your own devices.
Replace everything throws away what is here and uses the copy
instead — that is the one for a device you are setting up again.
The record itself
Everything Quietkeep shows you is worked out fresh from one append-only
record of what happened. You can read that record — every line, in
plain words, newest day first. Looking changes nothing.
Things you let go
Letting go is a decision, and decisions can be revisited. Everything you
let go is here, newest first — open one and “Keep it after
all” brings it back with a clock of its own.
The Not Now ledger
Things other people asked of you, that you decided not to carry. Each is
parked — it comes back on its own day, quietly — and each is
kept, so when the same request comes back you can point at the decision
instead of making it again.