Brainstream
Agentic AI notes: smart search, briefs & tasks
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Agentic AI notes: smart search, briefs & tasks
198 followers
Turn scattered thoughts into organized action with Brainstream - an AI-powered note-taking app with an intelligent assistant that doesn't just answer questions, it takes action for you. Capture ideas in seconds (voice, text, photos), then let your AI assistant do the heavy lifting: create tasks from your notes, organize with smart tags, summarize content, and deliver daily + weekly briefs that transform chaos into clarity.
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@curiouskitty Completely agree but I believe juggling 3 apps is not the most efficient way. Brainstream combines all 3 in a single app. And you also get native AI chat (research or chat with AI from within the app), agentic AI actions (create note, create/complete tasks, create calendar event, etc.), and other AI powered features (summarise or rewrite notes, suggest tags or extract tasks from a note,etc.). Not to forget the semantic search where you can search for anything across your notes.
So basically a realistic adoption plan is to just start capturing thoughts in the app and let the AI do the heavy lifting for you. Other than email (for the email-to-notes capability) and calendar, there is no other integration. Inward migration is not currently supported but is definitely possible if the market demand warrants it.
Interesting — curious what "takes action" looks like in practice. Can it create calendar events, draft emails, or push tasks to other tools? Or is the action more within the app itself?
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@go_sakioka Yeah, it can create Google calendar events, create/edit/complete tasks & notes within the app by just chatting with the app. New notes can also be created by just forwarding an email to notes@usebrainstream.app from the registered email address.
What was the biggest challenge building this? I'm building a macOS video editor and curious about your approach to this app?
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@cyberseeds managing the mono-repo with both Android and Web apps (first time for me) + ensuring robust security & scalable infra. These were challenging in terms of time commitments but nothing dramatic.
@asadmasad Totally relate! I'm managing a mono-repo with macOS (Swift) + Web (Next.js) + Rust core engine too.
The FFI boundary between Swift and Rust was the trickiest part for me.
Mono-repo keeps everything in sync though — wouldn't go back to separate repos.
Love the story behind this — building for a real person's frustration always leads to better products.
The daily/weekly briefs sound great for review, but I'm curious about note connections. Say I mention "buy milk" today and "grab eggs" three days later — does Brainstream recognize these are related and merge them into one grocery list automatically? That kind of contextual linking between scattered notes would be a killer feature. Would love to see the AI connect the dots across time, not just within a single session.
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@fresh_topping Thanks for the feedback. Brainstream will recognize these 2 as similar and related and you can ask the built-in AI to merge the 2 lists together. So it's not 100% automatic and, to be honest, I was a bit hesitant to bake in that level of automation from day 0 - but that is definitely something that can be implemented as the product matures.
Congratulations on the launch! Can you create custom reminders for notes? For example, “Note A — send me an email on March 1”?
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@mykyta_semenov_ thanks. Yes, the reminders/tasks can be either independent or connected to a specific note. In case of the latter, the note view will show the related tasks while you can also navigate to the note when viewing the tasks. Let me know your experience with it and would also welcome any feedback.
Congrats on the launch, Asad. The story of how this came to be is really nice and relatable for so many people.
Balancing idea capture and organization and action items is difficult. Regular daily/weekly reviews is a nice touch as well. I'm so prone to drifting from my original direction to focus on something shiny and new. That review helps to keep on track.
Personally, I have an environment I built for myself that is similar to this, from what I can tell. In addition to the idea capture/organization and daily/weekly reviews, the system is aware of my high level vision and deliverables, so it slaps me on the wrist when I pause meaningful work to build yet another AI tool for myself. You could say it works as an accountability partner to keep me on track to hit targets. Not sure if that could fit into your vision, but that's what I see in Brainstream from my own lens.
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@bbmaxwell Yup - Brainstream has this feature too in a way 😊where it resurfaces and reminds you of old forgotten tasks that haven't been completed yet. But having an overarching vision sounds interesting too - my only concern would be that it may be too fluid for a general purpose app - thoughts?
@bbmaxwell @asadmasad Brainstream's evening closeout reviewing done vs. planned is already halfway to drift detection. Pinning one note as a north star and weighting the weekly brief around it would surface misalignment without adding config overhead. Tight enough for a general-purpose notes app.
@asadmasad @piroune_balachandran that's a thoughtful solution. It's a scaled down version of a vision & still helps keep the train on the tracks.
Asad, you're not wrong in that it might be a bit much for a general purpose app. It's a feature for a superuser more than for every user.