Everything else in this wiki is a principle. Clair Mind is those principles built into one iPhone app — so you can live them without running a system by hand.
We make it, so read this as the honest pitch of a biased author: here's what it is, who it's for, and where it isn't the answer.
The idea, in one line
Capture in one tap; let the app do the organising and connecting. The two hard parts of any notes habit — capturing before the thought fades and finding it again months later — are exactly the parts Clair Mind takes off your hands.
What it does
- One-tap capture. Open, type or scan a page, done — even offline. No notebook to choose, no template to fill. Capture speed is the whole game, so we made it as close to zero-friction as an app can get.
- Calm, colourful notebooks. A handful of broad buckets you can tell apart at a glance — the light-organising approach this wiki argues for, not fifty folders.
- Ask across your notes. Ask a question in plain language ("what did I decide about pricing?") and get an answer grounded in what you wrote — retrieval-first, the step most systems neglect.
- Automatic connections. Clair surfaces links between related notes, so a Zettelkasten-style web of ideas forms without you filing anything by hand — a slip box that files itself.
- Offline and private. Notes live on your device; no account needed to capture, organise, or search, and you can export to Markdown anytime. No lock-in.
Who it's for
People who think on their phone and lose ideas in the gaps of the day — students between lectures, professionals between meetings, writers and researchers catching fragments. If your problem is "I capture things and never find them again," this is built for exactly that.
When it isn't the answer
We'd rather you use the right tool than ours. Clair Mind is not a team workspace, a project manager, or a document collaborator — if you need those, Notion is genuinely better, and our honest comparisons will point you there. It's also iPhone-first; if you live on desktop with local Markdown files, a tool like Obsidian (compared here) may fit better.
The bigger picture
Clair Mind exists because of one belief that runs through this entire wiki: the best system is the one that asks almost nothing of you. Methods like the Cornell method and progressive summarization work, but they cost effort most people can't sustain. An app that captures fast and connects automatically lets you keep the benefit — ideas that compound instead of scatter — without the ceremony.