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Pell
Turn your "text-to-self" chat into a searchable brain.
16 followers
Turn your "text-to-self" chat into a searchable brain.
16 followers
You already text yourself notes. Pell is the same, except it actually finds them when you ask. A WhatsApp contact that remembers everything.
Hi all,
Like a lot of you, my WhatsApp chat history with myself was a total digital junkyard. I’d text myself a gate code, a quick voice note idea, or a photo of where I parked my car, only for them to completely vanish into the scroll abyss.
Traditional note-taking apps have too much friction when you're on the move, but standard chat apps have zero discoverability.
That’s why we built Pell.
It lets you keep using the exact text-to-self habit you already have, but gives that chat a searchable brain. You dump in raw text, voice notes, or photos, Pell quietly drops a thumbs-up to let you know it's saved, and days later you just ask for it back verbatim.
A few quick things you'll love:
- Zero friction: No apps to download, no accounts to create. It lives right in WhatsApp.
- Quiet by design: It reacts with a thumbs-up. No AI-hallucinated conversational fluff or 3-paragraph essays when you’re just trying to log a note.
- Full voice note support: Personally, I use this feature the most. I love just dumping random voice notes into the chat while I'm walking, and later on, I can literally just send Pell a quick voice note back asking it to find those buried messages for me.
It’s completely free to try right now (and works in any language). I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any wild use cases you find for it.
How long does it keep the memory for, and does it use my messages to train anything?
@remzi698130 Hey Remzi, great questions!
We don't use your data to train anything ever. Your media isn't shared or stored as is; we only extract the key info from it and store just that for retrieval. Your memory is kept indefinitely until you explicitly ask to delete it. You have full control, you can tell Pell to forget a specific message, or you can wipe everything at any time.
been using a mess of screenshots and voice notes to myself for ages so this hits close to home. one thing that would push it further for me is grouping memories by topic instead of just a flat search list, so i can ask things like "what was that restaurant you told me about" and get a clean thread instead of twenty random hits to scroll through.
@ensar33961 Hey Ensar, thanks for the feedback! tbh, this is just a validation phase for us, and for the first version, our goal was simply searching and nothing else. Grouping and organizing past messages into clean, topic-based threads is absolutely on our roadmap, and we will be adding many more features to it. Stay tuned!
how does it handle stuff like voice notes or images you save in the chat, or is it strictly text-only for what it can search through?
@durmusoban4003 Hey Durmuş! It actually handles a lot more than just text. It fully supports voice notes and understands the semantic meaning behind them. For images, it extracts and processes the text inside them too. So the search is definitely not just text-based, you can even skip typing entirely and just drop a voice note to search through your vault.
@durmusoban4003 Thanks, Abuzar. Just to add here, it can search through basically anything you'd naturally send in a chat
finally someone figured out notes need to be searchable. searched for "dentist appointment" from months ago and it pulled up the exact thing i forgot about.