Are your notes in five places?

Who I'd like to hear from

• Virtual assistants Every client uses a different app, so your notes live in five places.
• Independent consultants A client asks about something from months ago, and you spend 20 minutes digging.
• People with ADHD If you don't write it down right now, it's gone. And then you can't remember where you wrote it.

Two minutes, five questions

Where your notes live, the last time one went missing, and whether you've paid for anything to fix it. Then your first name and email, so I can invite you to the conversation.

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I'll use your name and email for one thing: inviting you to a 15-minute conversation. No mailing list. I won't keep them once the conversations are done. Your answers are stored by my survey service, MySurveyCreator.

Why I built Docsortly

I have ADHD. I was diagnosed in 2002.

At the time, I thought, "All I have to do is take my prescription and I'll be normal." Little did I know.

It's only in the last five years that I've really dug into what ADHD touches in my life. Here are a few things I've learned. I notice a lot of things other people miss. I pick up on details, and I can read a room. But if something doesn't hold my interest, I lose it, even though I saw it.

So when an idea hits me, I have to write it down right now, or it's gone. And I can't write fast enough to get the whole thought down before it leaves my head.

And the notes I did save? Let me tell you where they ended up.

Cloud storage.

External hard drives.

USB sticks.

This app, that app.

When I need one back, I look in Google Drive. Then my notes app. Then my email. Then my messenger, in case it was a conversation. I can burn an hour or two very easily, looking for one thing.

I always had good intentions to organize them. I just never took the time. So I saved more notes, in more places, until I honestly didn't know where I'd put things anymore.

Here's the thing.

Drives fail.

USB sticks fail.

Technology goes out of date.

All products eventually fail.

My notes were scattered across a dozen places, on things that were going to fail.

What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

So I built what I needed.

Way back in the day (yes, I'm THAT old), when I was in high school, I learned to program in Apple BASIC, on an Apple IIe. I loved it. But I'm not a coder. I never had the patience for all the details and what-ifs.

I have spent years automating everything I can, so I can spend my time on what matters.

For me, that's the people in my life.

Every hour I spent hunting for a note was an hour I didn't spend with someone. As I've gotten older, I've realized the most important thing I can do is invest in the lives of other people.

And AI made it possible: one place for everything, and help with keeping it organized, because let's face it, I wasn't going to do it by hand.

I built this for people like me.

We live in a world built for neurotypical brains, and it expects us to keep up. When we can't, we blame ourselves. We shouldn't. It's not a choice. It's a condition.

Some days we get more done in an hour than most people get done in a day. Other days we know exactly what to do, and we can't get started.

We don't need more pressure. We need something that gets us started, because once we're moving, we keep going.

The world wants results. We can deliver them. Sometimes we just need the right tool to keep up.

That's the feeling I want you to have in your first week: all your notes in one place, found when you need them, with AI keeping them organized for you.

What Docsortly does today

• Brings your notes into one place. Upload exports from Evernote, Notion and Standard Notes, plus Word, PDF, Markdown, text, HTML, CSV and zip files of them.
• Finds the words inside. Search reaches the text of every note, PDF and Word file.
• Recommends where things go. The AI recommends a category and tags for each note. Nothing changes until you approve it.
• Combines notes that overlap. Select notes that say similar things, and the AI merges them into one complete note, keeping every detail that's different.

And what it doesn't do, so you know before you ask:

• It can't read scanned PDFs. A PDF needs real text in it to be searched.
• It doesn't connect to your email, Google Drive or Dropbox. You download the files, then upload them.
• The AI reads your notes in order to organize them. Your notes are not end-to-end encrypted.

Plain and simple. If it isn't on this page, it doesn't do it yet.

Thanks for reading this far. If your notes are in five places, I'd really like to hear from you.

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