Kept

Kept is an AI planner for iPhone and Mac that brings tasks, notes, calendar and habits into a single place, built for people who describe themselves as unorganized. Its stated purpose is simple: turn ideas into action. Instead of asking you to construct a system of folders, tags and databases before anything gets done, Kept is designed to learn your goals and sort your priorities around them. The maker positions it as "the organization app for unorganized people" — a planning tool that takes on the work of keeping you organized rather than becoming one more thing you have to maintain. You write one line into Kept, and it shows you how it intends to file that line before you save. The background behind Kept is a familiar one for anyone who has bounced between productivity apps. The maker describes being "lazy and disorganized by default" and having built lots of automations and productivity hacks just to be a functioning member of society. Notes went into Craft Notes but were never revisited, because taking the time to put things into folders that made sense simply never happened. In Things 3, the fast capture button led to jotting down everything — ideas, notes, tasks, big projects, things with deadlines — without doing the right tagging, leaving a Today inbox with thousands of stubs that "go there to die." Notion and other apps never worked either. The stated conclusion is that most planning apps are one more thing you have to keep organized, and Kept was built to be the opposite: an app that actually keeps you organized. Kept's core interaction is a single line of input. You write one line, and before you save it, Kept shows whether it files as a task, an event or a note, along with the day, the time and the area it read from that line. That preview matters because it lets you confirm or correct the interpretation before anything lands in your system, rather than discovering weeks later that a stray idea became a deadline or that an appointment was buried as a note. Because Kept reads the day, time and area out of what you typed, capture stays fast: you do not have to choose a category, open a date picker or decide in advance where a thought belongs. The app proposes the structure, and you keep the final say. Goal tracking is the feature the maker calls out as the main difference from the many todo apps out there. Kept works by learning your goals and then sorting your priorities based on them, so the app is built around helping you actually achieve your productive goals rather than making you do the work of being organized yourself. Rather than presenting an undifferentiated list, Kept proposes today's Top 3 and explains why each one was chosen. Crucially, you can change any of them — the proposal is a starting point, not a lock-in. That combination of a small, explained daily shortlist plus the freedom to override it is what turns a task list into something closer to a plan, and it gives you a reason to trust the ordering instead of ignoring it. Todos in Kept use Apple Intelligence on device to auto sort tasks into areas that you define. Areas serve as the buckets you actually care about, and because they are yours rather than a preset taxonomy, the sorting reflects how you think about your work and your life. On-device processing is how the maker describes it, with the practical payoff that tasks land in the right area without you filing them by hand, and they stay easily searchable later. For someone whose previous system collapsed because tagging never happened, automatic sorting into a small set of self-defined areas removes exactly the step that used to break down, while keeping the result findable when you come back to it months later. Tasks, notes and calendar are integrated rather than stitched together, and your notes, habits and calendar all sit in the same place. That means a project, the note attached to it and the calendar event where it gets discussed live together instead of in three apps with three separate search boxes. When you open a task you can start Focus, moving from deciding what to do straight into doing it without switching context. Everything works and syncs on iPhone and Mac, so the same picture of your day is available on your phone and on your desktop. The maker also notes that Kept was optimized for iPhone Duo on release day — one of the few notes and productivity apps to be ready for it — so it was designed to use that form factor from the start. Under the hood, the maker describes building "prompts, memory creation and context querying sequences and other secret sauce" that became Kept. The methodology follows from that: the app builds up memory about what you are trying to achieve, queries the context of what you have captured, and uses both to decide how a new line should be filed and which items belong at the top of today. This is why the same one-line input can resolve into a task, an event or a note, and why Kept can offer a Top 3 with reasons attached rather than an arbitrary list. The design goal is a planning app that carries the organizational overhead itself, so being organized becomes an output of using the app rather than a prerequisite for it. The promised outcome is that you stop being the filing system. Ideas captured in a single line do not disappear into a Today inbox; they are read, categorized and placed with the day, time and area that Kept inferred. Goals you have told Kept about shape what it recommends next, so daily effort is aimed at something you actually said you wanted to achieve. A three-item shortlist with stated reasons is small enough to act on and transparent enough that you can adjust it. Because tasks flow straight into Focus, and because notes, habits and calendar are co-located, there are fewer places for a commitment to fall through. The maker's framing of the benefit is direct: Kept is meant to be the app that actually keeps you organized, rather than another system that needs organizing. Concrete uses described in the materials start with quick capture during the day: you have an idea, a note, a task with a deadline or something to attend, and you write one line instead of choosing an app. Kept shows whether it read the line as a task, an event or a note, with the day, time and area it picked, so you confirm before saving. When you plan your day, you open Kept to see today's Top 3 and the reasoning behind each, then change any of them if they do not match. When you sit down to work on one of them, you open the task and start Focus. And when a task relates to something you wrote down, the note is in the same place — along with the calendar entry and your habits — on iPhone or Mac. Someone returning to abandoned notes can search them later precisely because Kept sorted them into your areas. Kept is aimed squarely at people who do not enjoy organizing. The maker's own description — "lazy and disorganized by default" — is the persona the app is designed around, and the product is explicitly framed as "the organization app for unorganized people." That includes anyone who has tried Notion, Craft Notes or Things 3 and found that the upkeep outweighed the benefit. It runs on iPhone and Mac, with notes, habits, calendar and tasks syncing between them, and it uses Apple Intelligence on device for task sorting. Kept is listed as free on Product Hunt, the app is available on the App Store, and the maker directs people to www.kept.do. The takeaway is that Kept inverts the usual productivity bargain. Instead of handing you a flexible canvas and expecting you to invent and maintain a structure, it learns your goals, reads each one-line entry, files it as a task, event or note with a day, time and area, and proposes a Top 3 with reasons you can override. With tasks, notes, habits and calendar together on iPhone and Mac, and a Focus mode that starts work directly from a task, Kept's value proposition is an app that keeps you organized rather than one more thing to keep organized.