Notada
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Notada

Notes that never lose a todo.

A todo goes stale wherever you don’t look. Notada lists it beside your notes until you tick it off.

Download for MacFree for thirty days. Then $20, once.

The Notada window, a notepad named Work. A todo from three weeks ago, due today, with a line of details under it, then yesterday's notes, two lines and two todos, and the list beside them, the old todo first. One of yesterday's todos is ticked off in the notes, with today's date, and its row leaves the list. A new day starts under its own date with a line of notes, then a todo, a question, and a decision, each picked from a small menu of kinds, come into the list as they are written, leaving the todo due today, yesterday's other todo, and today's own.
The Notada window, a notepad named Work, the notes and the list beside them: a todo from three weeks ago, due today, with a line of details under it, and yesterday's two. One of yesterday's todos is ticked off in the notes, with today's date, and its row leaves the list. A new day starts under its own date with a line of notes, then a todo, a question, and a decision, each picked from a small menu of kinds, come into the list as they are written, leaving the todo due today, yesterday's other todo, and today's own.

How it works

One notepad for each part of your life.

You never start a new note. You keep writing at the bottom of the same notepad, a new date for each day, and the list beside it shows every open todo and question, however long ago you wrote it.

Four marks

Mark a line. The list keeps it.

Your assistant

Ask your own assistant.

Connect Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any MCP client on your Mac. It reads your open todos and questions, writes your standup brief, and adds a todo or closes one.

How to connect

  1. What should I work on today? Keep it short.
  2. Read your open items and questions

  3. Here’s your day, Friday, September 11:

    1. Review the onboarding copy before the release — due today, so this is the priority.
    2. Send Anna the retro notes — open for over a week now; a quick one to clear.
    3. Open question: Do we keep the free trial at thirty days? — asked Tuesday, still unanswered. Worth settling if you can before the release, since it may affect the onboarding copy.

    Start with the onboarding copy, then fire off the retro notes to Anna.

  4. Sent Anna the notes. And remind me to book the pricing review with her on Monday.
  5. Closed “Send Anna the retro notes”
  6. Added “Book the pricing review with Anna”

  7. Done. “Send Anna the retro notes” is closed, and I’ve added “Book the pricing review with Anna” due Monday, September 14.

    That leaves the onboarding copy review for today.

The list, close up, while the assistant works beside it: Send Anna the retro notes leaves the list, and Book the pricing review with Anna, due September 14, comes into it.

On disk

It is a text file.

Markdown in your Documents folder, with no database and no account. Edit it in any editor, and Notada shows the change.

The file format

## 2026-08-20
Planning for the fall. Onboarding first, then the pricing page.
- [ ] Ask Maya for the research notes due:2026-09-11
	From the spring interviews, the ones about pricing.
## 2026-09-10
Design review of the new signup flow. People skipped the tour.
Maya thinks the copy on the last step is too long.
- [ ] Cut the tour down to one screen
- [x] Shorten the copy on the last step done:2026-09-11
## 2026-09-11
Standup. Anna found a bug in signup.
- [ ] Send Anna the release notes
- [?] Who owns the pricing page?
- [!] Pricing waits until October.
The same file as Notada shows it: each date as a header, a box before a todo, its details set in under it, a ring before the question, and a dot before the decision.

In context

Back to the line.

Click a row in the list, and your notes go back to where you wrote it, three weeks up, with what you wrote under it.

The pointer clicks a todo in the list that is three weeks old, and the notes scroll back to August 20, where the line was written, and highlight it with the two lines of details under it.
The pointer clicks a todo in the list that is three weeks old, and the notes scroll back to August 20, where the line was written, and highlight it with the two lines of details under it.

From the maker

I have given up on more notes apps than I can count, and the writing was never the problem. The todos I wrote down scrolled out of view and went stale, and a task manager did not help, because I never opened it. My notes are where I think, so that is where the list had to live. I built Notada for my own workdays, and it is where they live now.

Daniel Larsson

Free for thirty days. Then $20, once.

Download for MacVersion 1.3, October 5, 2026 · macOS 15 or later

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Your notes never leave your Mac. The app sends anonymous usage data, which you can turn off. What it sends.