Capture a thought in under three seconds — phone locked, hands full, mid-meeting. Slate files it, dates it, and resurfaces it when it matters. Keyboard-first, offline-ready, built for people who run more than one world.
“Hey Siri, add to Slate — call the roofer Thursday #harkins” → filed, dated, done.
The bar isn’t “more capable than a sticky note.” It’s cheaper than one — and it doesn’t get lost.
“Hey Siri, add to Slate…” — or the Action Button, or Back Tap. The thought lands filed and dated before you’ve unlocked anything.
“call the roofer thursday #harkins !!” becomes a dated, tagged, prioritized task in the right group. No forms. Ever.
Offline capture queues on your device and syncs the moment you’re back. Nothing typed is ever lost — that’s the product’s first law.
Not timestamps — horizons. Today, tomorrow, this week, someday. Drag things between them or tap > to push work down the road, guilt-free.
Work, companies, personal — color-coded, one keystroke apart. Private groups are invisible to everyone but you, enforced in the database itself.
c capture · jk move · x done · s snooze · > later. Forty items on one screen, zero mouse required.
Overdue rises to the top. Snoozed items resurface on schedule. Full-text search finds anything you’ve ever captured, instantly.
With the screen off. If capture has friction, the list dies — so the front door is Siri, not an app icon.
Slate never auto-inserts. Anything suggested arrives in a review queue where you keep, edit, or kill it. Your list stays yours — and stays trusted.
No integrations required. Everything you connect later just makes it smarter. Anything that breaks degrades one thing, never the whole.