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Capture fugitive thoughts + route them to where they belong
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Einfall - Capture fugitive thoughts + route them to where they belong

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Einfall catches the fugitive thought — the one that falls into your head at the strangest times — before it's gone. Capture quick and easy on Mac, iPhone and iPad, from the menu bar, share sheet, Shortcuts, widgets, Spotlight and Siri. Process the thoughts by sending them to Reminders, Calendar, Files, a Shortcut, or by giving your AI agent control via MCP. Capture is free and unlimited. After the first 15 routing actions, a one-time $29.99 purchase unlocks unlimited routing.

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Hi I am JP, and I built Einfall. I get a lot of thoughts during the day, and after capturing them across various apps, voice notes, notebooks, and pieces of paper, I created Einfall to catch all of these thoughts into one trusted place, as fast as possible, on whatever device I had with me. And yes, this is not the first app to do this, but I couldn't find something that ticked all the boxes I was looking for, so I created my vision. The hardest decisions were about what to leave out. With AI agents, you could add every feature you could think of, but I deliberately decided to leave out folders, a scripting language, engagement mechanics, unread counts, and actions that require a running server to process your thought into another service. It's a flat stream that holds your thought until you have decided what to do with it, even if the decision is that it should be deleted as you no longer have use for it. You can send thoughts to Reminders, Calendar, a file (hello, Obsidian daily-note people), a Shortcut, or your own AI agent through a small MCP server that runs locally on your Mac. Pricing is quite simple. Capture is free, forever on Mac, iPhone and iPad. You get 15 free routing actions, and then a one-time $29.99 purchase unlocks unlimited routing. There is no account, no server, and no data collected. I used building it as a challenge to learn Swift and see how it links to the paradigms from my day job as a developer using Python, PySpark and Angular. Claude Code was my teacher on the code side, but the judgment calls stayed mine. Happy to answer anything.
simple, beautiful, and scratches one specific itch for me. Just downloaded. Thank you!
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 Thank you Yagna! I'm curious what the specific itch is, if you are happy to share. Always interested in how other people use something I made, and the uses or routes I never thought of.

Half my blog posts start as a note in whatever app was open, then I lose track of which one. Which route do you actually use most yourself?

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 Hi Lisa. For longer thoughts I'll later turn into something more, my most used route is the MCP one: Claude Code reads the thought from Einfall and processes it into my Obsidian vault, where my longer-form writing lives. The Files action is the simpler version of the same thing — append the thought to one inbox note, or to today's Daily Note in Obsidian. Either way the half-formed post ends up in the one place I'll look for it, rather than whichever app was open.

Second most used is Reminders, though that's shopping-list items and to-dos rather than writing.

  Turns out my problem was never capture, it was four inboxes and checking none of them. Appending to one note is the fix I'd actually stick with.