Capture-to-action AI for people whose notes are their job

Your notes are full of next steps. Clevernotes finds them.

Capture a quote, a meeting, a voice memo, a screenshot. Clevernotes finds the deadlines, follow-ups, and commitments inside—proposes them as next steps you approve—and answers later with links to the source.

  • Free during beta
  • No credit card
  • Encrypted before it leaves your device
Captured Studio buildout — revised quote PDF · just now
Clevernotes on Mac showing a contractor quote PDF saved as a note with Sparks detected
Sparks found A deadline, a walkthrough, a deposit Proposed as next steps. Nothing is added until you approve it. Review Sparks
Original attached Quote #1042-R2 · Harbor & Main
You capture VoicePhotoMeetingFileWeb clip
Clevernotes returns TasksRemindersEventsAnswersFollow-ups

The useful part starts after save

Most notes apps stop at stored. Clevernotes keeps going.

You don’t need to clean up a thought before you capture it. Put the messy version in. Clevernotes helps with the follow-through.

Capture

Get it out of your head before it becomes homework.

Talk, scan, photograph, type, share, or drop in a file. Clevernotes saves the original first, so you can move on without naming folders or choosing a system.

Voice, text, camera, photos, screenshots, meetings, files, and web clips.

Clevernotes for iPhone showing one-tap voice, text, photo, scan, import, and journal capture
Follow through

Get a next step, not another summary.

Sparks—suggested next steps from your captures—propose the task, the calendar event, the reminder, and the follow-up hiding in what you saved. Each one shows why it surfaced and where it came from. Accept what helps. Dismiss what doesn’t.

A suggestion becomes real work only after you approve it.

A Clevernotes Spark proposing a deposit deadline task from a contractor quote, with accept and dismiss controls
Real beta screen · a Spark explaining why it surfaced, waiting for review
Find it again

Ask later. Check the source.

CleverPal—AI chat that answers and acts from your notes—looks across voice memos, screenshots, meetings, and files. Ask what you owe and when: the answer comes back with amounts, dates, and a link to the document they came from.

Your source stays one click from the answer.

CleverPal answering a question about a contractor quote with the payment schedule, key dates, and a source citation
Real beta screen · answer grounded in the captured quote, source one click away

The Monday test

Six captures in. Six next steps out. Zero re-reading.

One working morning: a contractor quote, a client call, two voice memos, a screenshot, and a web clip go in. The deadlines, follow-ups, and calendar events inside them come back proposed—reviewed and accepted in minutes, not rediscovered on Thursday.

PDF Studio buildout — revised quote Deposit deadline · Fri 5:00 PM
MEETING Contractor call · 32:14 Walkthrough on calendar · Thu 9:00
VOICE Pricing decision · morning walk Run model past 3 designers
SCREENSHOT Chargeback rate sample Tally rate from Stripe data
WEB CDTFA digital goods guidance Forward tax PDFs to Devin
VOICE Onboarding email idea Draft outline · filed to project

Every next step keeps a link back to the capture it came from.

One person, two contexts

Maya runs Threadwise and a whole life from the same capture habit.

Work and personal notes can share an app without becoming one pile. Here are eleven real jobs from Maya’s demo profile.

Threadwise

Professional

  • Voice memoThink through a pricing decision on a morning walk.
  • MeetingLeave a contractor call with owners and dates.
  • ResearchTurn web clips and PDFs into a sourced decision.
  • DeskRun launch week from committed work, habits, and queues.
  • CleverPalAsk company history and check the original note.
  • AgentsPair Claude Code with the company’s memory.
Maya + family

Personal

  • PhotoSave Mom’s handwritten biryani recipe.
  • CalendarCoordinate Asha, Sam, and family events.
  • HealthKeep appointments, refills, and habits moving.
  • AdminTurn bills, renewals, and home repairs into next steps.
  • ListsMake room for books, ceramics, Spanish, and travel.

Clevernotes vs. Evernote

Evernote organizes what you save. Clevernotes is built around what happens next.

Evernote is a mature, cross-platform notes library. Clevernotes starts from a different default: capture the mess, review suggested next steps, ask later with sources, and keep stored note content encrypted with keys on your trusted devices.

The job
Evernote
Clevernotes
Core strength
A broad, cross-platform notes library with tasks and calendar.
Mixed captures that become reviewable next steps and source-linked answers.
After capture
Create and organize notes and tasks in the workspace.
Sparks proactively suggests tasks, reminders, events, list items, and follow-ups to accept or dismiss.
AI
AI Assistant, AI Meeting Notes, and semantic search.
Capture analysis, proactive Sparks, and CleverPal answers grounded in your captures.
Stored note privacy
Service-side encryption and access controls managed by Evernote.
Encrypted on your device before sync; Clevernotes does not store a readable copy of note content.
Platforms today
Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.
Mac and iPhone, currently in beta.

Don’t migrate ten years of notes. Keep your archive. Give Clevernotes this week’s voice memos, screenshots, meetings, and files. In seven days, compare what came back useful.

See the detailed Evernote comparison

For your AI agents

Your agents finally have your context.

Pair Claude Code, Codex, or Claude Desktop with Clevernotes on your Mac. Your agent can search your captures, check what you decided, and file new tasks into your queues—so it answers from your meetings and documents, not from a blank context window.

  • Runs over a local connection on your Mac—nothing routes through our servers
  • Starts only after you approve the connection in Clevernotes
  • Revoke any agent’s access at any time

MCP-standard endpoint · works with any local MCP client

Clevernotes Local Tools and Agents settings showing the local MCP endpoint running and Claude Code connected
Real beta screen · local MCP endpoint with Claude Code connected

Confidential by default

Safe enough for client work. Encrypted before it leaves your device.

Contracts, client calls, unreleased ideas—the notes that matter are the ones you can’t put in most AI tools. Clevernotes does not store a readable copy of your notes, transcripts, files, summaries, memory data, or search data. Your trusted devices and 24-word recovery key unlock them.

When you ask AI to transcribe, analyze, or answer, only the selected content needed for that request can be processed temporarily. It is encrypted again before it syncs.

Read the plain-language privacy policy
1
On your deviceDeposit $5,784 due Friday to Harbor & Main
Readable to you
2
In Clevernotes cloudWe keep only the encrypted version.
No readable copy
3
For an AI requestOnly selected content can be processed temporarily.
Request only

The seven-day test

Start with today’s loose ends.

Don’t rebuild your whole system. Give Clevernotes the next seven days of voice notes, screenshots, meetings, and files. See what stops slipping.

“I built Clevernotes because my voice memos and screenshots kept becoming a pile to manage. I wanted them to come back as something useful.”

— Nirav, founder
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