One person, a phone full of screenshots.

I kept screenshotting things. A recipe someone posted, the wifi password taped to a fridge, a page from a book, the name of a restaurant a friend swore by. Each one felt handled the moment I took it. None of them ever came back.

The advice is always to be more organised: make albums, sort weekly, delete ruthlessly. That advice quietly blames you, and it ignores why you took the screenshot in the first place. You were busy, mid-task, with about one second of attention to spare.

So I built the other thing. Reminari keeps the one-second habit exactly as it is and does the remembering afterwards: reading what’s inside each image, writing a summary, filing it, and handing it back when you describe what you’re looking for.

What it’s actually made of

No mystery, since people ask.

Where it is right now

Pre-launch, honestly. Android first, because that’s the phone in my pocket and building for it doesn’t need a Mac. iOS is real and coming: the share extension and Sign in with Apple are the two big pieces left. If you’re on the waitlist you get one email, when there’s something to install.

There is no team behind this. It is one person and a very long list.

Why “Reminari”

It’s Latin: to remember, to recall to mind. The app doesn’t remember for you so much as hand things back when you reach for them, which felt like the right word.

I also write the journal, about saving, forgetting and the tools in between. A good place to start is why we screenshot everything and never look again.