Amnesia
A Mac app that asks why you opened that tab
Amnesia launched on June 23, 2026 with 101 votes, #384 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Amnesia is a local-first macOS menu bar app for people who open X, YouTube, Reddit, Slack, or analytics dashboards and forget why. It asks for your intent, keeps a tiny timer on-screen, checks whether you did what you came to do, and turns the day into a private report of opens, forgotten intents, and time lost.
A local-first Mac menu-bar app that catches you the moment you open a distracting app, asks what you came to do, and keeps that intent on screen until you've done it. $19 once.
Amnesia catches you the second you open a distracting app, asks what you came to do, and keeps that intent floating on screen until you've actually done it. One-time purchase · Local-first · No account, no cloud, no tracking. Pick an intent. I'll keep it floating on-screen and check in after 5m or when you leave. A real, honest number at the end of every day — not a streak, not a leaderboard. Just how often the feed won. Each one gets the same gentle gate: a quick "why are you here?" before the feed gets a chance to answer for you. You opened it to do one quick thing. Then the feed pulled you under. Eleven minutes later you're deep in someone else's timeline — and the one quick thing never…from vidursaini.com
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