Dory memos
Notes that forget themselves in 24 hours — on purpose.
Some notes only need to live a day: the parking spot, the confirmation code, the errand. Dory memos let you say so up front, and then never think about them again.
How it works
- Toggle the Dory button (the little blue tang 🐟) in the editor — at creation, or later from a memo's action menu.
- The memo shows a countdown badge: "forgets in 23h".
- Over its final six hours, the card gently fades.
- At the 24-hour mark, the server deletes it — truly deletes it, along with its comments, attachments, and share links.
The timer runs server-side, so forgetting happens even when nobody has the app open. Toggling Dory on an existing memo starts a fresh 24 hours; toggling it off cancels the countdown.
The rules
- Pinned memos can't be Dory memos. Pinned means "keep forever"; the two are mutually exclusive, and the app will refuse the combination with a friendly error.
- Archiving rescues. Archive a Dory memo and its countdown is cancelled permanently — archive means "keep."
- Comments sink with the ship. Commenting on a Dory memo is fine, but when Dory forgets the memo, the conversation goes too. The comment box warns you.
- No recovery after zero. Forgotten is forgotten. That's the feature.
Changing the window
Admins can shorten or lengthen Dory's memory instance-wide with the DORY_TTL_SECONDS
environment variable (default 86400). Setting it to 60 is a fun way to watch her work.