u/JOSHGREENONLINE

I spent months building an AI "second brain" for iPhone because I kept forgetting my own ideas; it launched today
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I spent months building an AI "second brain" for iPhone because I kept forgetting my own ideas; it launched today

I kept losing things. Ideas in the shower, a great line from a conversation, a random thought at 11pm — gone twenty minutes later.

I tried everything: notes apps, AI chat apps, full PKM setups. They all worked in theory. In practice they were too slow or too complicated, so I'd stop using them within a week.

So I built Orbit — an AI second brain for iPhone designed around one idea: capturing a thought should be instant, and recalling it later should feel like asking a person who was there.

The hardest part wasn't the AI. It was making capture fast enough that it became automatic instead of a chore. If there's any friction, you just don't use it.

It went live on the App Store today and honestly it feels surreal.

I'd genuinely love feedback from people who think about productivity, note-taking, AI, or memory systems — especially on the first 60 seconds of the experience.

It's free on the App Store if you want to try it.

u/JOSHGREENONLINE — 8 days ago