Every notes app is a machine for remembering. That's the whole pitch — capture everything, keep it forever, search it later. But look honestly at your notes and you'll find another species entirely: the parking spot, the confirmation code, the "call the dentist before 5." Notes that matter intensely for a day and then become sediment.
You never delete them, because deleting is work. So they pile up, and every search wades through a decade of expired parking spots.
Dory memos are our answer. When a thought only needs to live a day, tap the little blue tang in the editor. The memo gets a friendly countdown badge — "forgets in 23h" — fades gently over its final hours, and at the 24-hour mark the server deletes it. Actually deletes it: comments, attachments, and share links go too.
A few rules keep it honest:
- Pinning and Dory are mutually exclusive. Pinned means forever; Dory means a day. A memo can't be both, and the app will gently tell you so.
- Archiving rescues. Changed your mind? Archive the memo and it's saved from Dory's memory permanently.
- No takebacks after zero. When she forgets, she forgets. That's the point.
It turns out deliberate forgetting is a feature remembering apps forgot to build. Just keep swimming. 🫧