About Neska

Neska is a notes app built around a simple observation: most notes apps are designed for brains that remember where they put things. ADHD brains often can't, and the apps quietly punish them for it.

The problem

Every existing app fails at one of three points. It's too slow to open, so the thought is gone before you've finished reaching for it. It asks you to decide where the note belongs, and that decision costs the thought. Or it stores everything perfectly and then can't find it again, because you don't remember the exact words you used.

"By the time I finish moving my arm I'm writing down a different idea because the old one is gone."

That's from someone describing their own notes app. It's the problem Neska is built around.

What Neska does differently

Capture is unconditional. There are no folders, no tags, no prompts asking what kind of note this is. You open the app and the cursor is waiting — or you share something into it from wherever you already are, and it's caught without the app opening at all.

Retrieval forgives you. Search understands meaning, not just letters, so remembering roughly what a note was about is enough to find it. Thoughts you'd forgotten resurface on their own. Notes you deliberately set aside come back when you asked them to.

And the mess is allowed. There are no streaks, no badges, no nudges telling you to tidy up. The pile is the working state, not a failure.

Why it stays on your device

Notes are among the most private things people write — half-formed thoughts, things said in anger, things not ready to be seen. Neska keeps all of it on your phone. Even the parts that look like they'd need a server, such as search that understands meaning, run locally on models bundled inside the app.

Nothing is collected, and nothing is transmitted unless you deliberately share or export it yourself. The privacy policy is short, because there isn't much to say.

Who made it

Neska is built by one person, informed by living with ADHD rather than theorising about it. It's shaped by research into how people with ADHD actually use — and abandon — notes apps, and by using it every day.

Thoughts, problems or ideas are welcome at info@neskanotes.com.