Views: Where You Work in Keepsake

Keepsake has 7 main views, each designed for a specific way of working. Think of them as different lenses on the same data — your contacts, entries, tasks, and notes appear in the view that makes the most sense for what you're doing right now.

Today — Your daily command center

The Today view shows everything you need for the current day: your tasks, a space for a daily note, and a mini calendar for quick navigation. It's where you start your morning and check in throughout the day.
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Tasks for the day

All tasks scheduled for today appear here — including recurring tasks and overdue items that rolled over. Complete them, snooze them, or reorder them by drag & drop.

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Daily note

A free-text area attached to the day. Use it as a journal, a summary of what happened, or a scratchpad. Each day gets its own note.

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Navigate to any day

Use the mini calendar to jump to past or future days. You can go back and fill in notes or entries for previous days whenever you want.

Tip

Make Today your starting point each morning. Review your tasks, decide what to focus on, and add anything new that came up overnight.

Inbox — Capture first, organize later

The Inbox is where your QuickNotes land. It's a holding space for ideas, reminders, and anything you captured on the fly. The goal is to process notes regularly: transform them into tasks, log them as entries, archive them, or delete them. See QuickNotes for more.
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Quick capture

Create a note in seconds using the QuickNote bar at the top. Don't worry about organizing — just write it down.

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Process your notes

For each note, decide: is it a task? Transform it. Is it something that happened? Turn it into an entry. Is it reference material? Archive it. Done with it? Delete it.

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Pinned notes

Pin important notes to keep them visible at the top of your Inbox. Great for ongoing checklists or information you reference frequently.

Tip

Try to reach "Inbox Zero" regularly. Processing your notes keeps your mind clear and ensures nothing falls through the cracks.

Contacts — Your people

The Contacts view lists everyone you've added to Keepsake. Search by name, browse the list, and tap on anyone to see their full profile with interaction history, linked tasks, and notes. See Contact Profiles for more.
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Search and find

The search bar at the top finds contacts instantly — even with accented names. Searching "berenice" finds "Bérénice".

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Contact profiles

Each contact has a detail page showing their full interaction history: entries, tasks, and notes linked to them. It's the complete story of your relationship.

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Add new contacts

Create contacts from the + menu. Add a name, some context, and start building the relationship history from day one.

Journal — The full timeline

The Journal is a chronological feed of everything that happened — entries, completed tasks, and daily notes — grouped by day. Scroll back through weeks and months to see the full story of your interactions.
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Everything in one place

Entries from all contacts, tasks completed on each day, and daily notes are all visible in a single scrollable timeline.

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Add to any day

Each day in the Journal has a + button to add an entry or a task directly to that date. Forgot to log something from last week? Just scroll back and add it.

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Navigate by date

Use the mini calendar to jump to a specific date. Days with content are marked so you can quickly find when something happened.

Tip

The Journal is your best tool for reviewing what happened over a period. Before a meeting, scroll through recent entries to refresh your memory.

Tasks — Everything you need to do

The Tasks view organizes all your tasks into four sections: ASAP (urgent), Planned (with a date), Someday (no rush), and Completed. It's also where you manage recurring task templates. See Tasks for the full guide.
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ASAP

Tasks that need attention now. No specific date — they're just important and should be done as soon as possible.

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Planned

Tasks with a specific due date, sorted chronologically. This section also shows upcoming contact birthdays so you never miss one.

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Someday

Tasks you want to do eventually but not right now. A parking lot for ideas and non-urgent to-dos.

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Recurring templates

Set up tasks that repeat on a schedule — weekly reviews, monthly check-ins, yearly renewals. Keepsake generates individual task instances automatically.

Archive — Your processed notes

The Archive stores notes you've processed from the Inbox but want to keep for reference. It's your long-term storage for ideas, procedures, and information that might be useful later.
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From Inbox to Archive

When a note in your Inbox is useful but doesn't need action, archive it. It moves out of the Inbox and into the Archive for safekeeping.

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Search and filter

Search by content, filter by tag or by contact. The Archive is designed to help you find what you stored, even months later.

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Restore anytime

Changed your mind? Unarchive a note to send it back to the Inbox. Nothing is permanent.

Tip

Use the Archive for reference material: procedures, ideas, meeting prep notes, and anything you might need to look up later.

Pages — Your projects and topics

The Pages view shows all your tags/pages in one place. Each page is a space that groups everything related to a project, topic, or area of your life. See Tags & Pages for more.
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Browse all your pages

See every tag you've created, with item counts showing how many tasks, contacts, entries, and notes are linked to each one.

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Favorites

Star your most-used pages to pin them to the sidebar for quick access. Favorites appear at the top of the Pages view and in the sidebar navigation.

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Manage in bulk

Select multiple pages to favorite, merge, or delete them at once. Merge is especially useful when you realize two tags cover the same topic.

Which view should I use?

Each view serves a different purpose. Here's a quick guide:
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Starting your day?

Open Today to see your tasks and plan your focus.

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Something to capture quickly?

Use Inbox — write a QuickNote and move on.

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Preparing for a meeting with someone?

Go to Contacts and open their profile to review your history.

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What happened last week?

Scroll through the Journal to see the timeline.

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What do I need to do?

Open Tasks to see everything organized by urgency.

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Looking for a note you saved?

Search the Archive for processed reference material.

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Working on a project?

Open the project's Page to see everything in one place.

Still exploring?

Views are designed to feel natural — you'll find your rhythm quickly. If you have questions, use the feedback button in the app (bottom-left corner) to reach us directly.

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