How to use msslmemo

1 · Rapid logging

Speed is the whole game. Type into the entry box using shorthand ... the first characters call the shot:

No symbol? It's a task. * means important, ^ means urgent, ! means inspiration ... drop them right after the bullet and keep moving.

Aim an entry at any day without leaving the page: o dentist @fri · . water the cactus @2026-09-15 · @today · @tomorrow. And press / anywhere to snap straight to the entry box. No mouse. No menus. Just log it.

2 · A task's life

Every task lives one of five lives. Hover an entry and the buttons appear:

Migration is the heart of the method. When a task keeps hanging around, make it answer for itself: do it, move it (>, pick a date), or strike it. Moving a task leaves the original as a receipt and drops a fresh open copy on the target day. Nothing slips. Nothing hides.

And every entry can carry notes ... the paper method's nested sub-bullets, typed. Click the small + note chip on any entry and jot the play-by-play: "called, no answer" at 2pm, "left voicemail" at 4:30. Each note is timestamped, so the history writes itself. When a task migrates, its notes stay with the original as the record of the attempt ... the fresh copy starts clean.

Typo? Click any entry's text and fix it right there (Esc backs out). The signifiers ride along in the edit box as text ... type * or ^ at the front to mark an entry important or urgent after the fact, or delete them to unmark it. Save, and the entry re-sorts itself everywhere, Matrix included.

Deleted the wrong thing? It waits in the Trash for 30 days before it's gone for good. No panic, ever.

3 · The Matrix

The general's view. The Matrix takes every open task on your plate and sorts it into four quadrants ... automatically, from the signifiers you already typed. * says it's important. ^ says it's urgent. That's the whole input; the sorting is free.

Use it like a triage room: work the top-left until it's empty, put dates on the top-right, knock out the bottom-left when you have ten spare minutes, and give the bottom-right a hard look ... unmarked and unloved is what the strike (~) was made for. Every task keeps its normal buttons, so you can act on the spot.

Collections play too, on one condition: a collection task only enters the Matrix once you mark it with * or ^. Your books to read stay a someday-list; the moment you mark . * ^ fix the leak in project: kitchen, it's on your plate, badged with its collection. Marking is the promotion.

Old-timers know this as the Eisenhower matrix. We just made it type-speed.

4 · The core views

5 · Collections

Lists that live outside the calendar ... Books to Read, Project: Kitchen, Restaurants That Owe Me Nothing. Spin one up under Collections, log into it with the same shorthand, and it files itself in your Index automatically. Rename or delete one from its own page ... deleting sends its entries to the Trash, never straight to oblivion.

6 · Brain Dump

Not everything fits a bullet. When something's rattling around your head and you just need it out ... a half-formed idea, meeting notes, a paragraph you're not ready to lose ... throw it in the Brain Dump. No symbols, no structure, no length limit worth worrying about.

Every dump is stamped with when you wrote it and when you last touched it, shows up as a preview card you can open and edit, and is fully searchable. Sort by created or updated and watch old thinking resurface right when you need it.

The rule: actionable → rapid-log it. Everything else → dump it and move on.

7 · Work and life, separated

The why: one journal for your whole life is the point ... but seeing the quarterly report next to your kid's recital is how work bleeds into everything. Realms keep one notebook while giving you a clean line between the two.

The how: everything is personal unless you say otherwise. Tag work as you log it ... . * finish the deck #w ... same speed as everything else. Collections can be work collections (project x #w when creating; their tasks inherit it), and brain dumps have a personal/work choice on the composer. Work items wear a small w badge.

The switch: the scope control in the header ... personal · work · all ... filters every view at once: daily log, monthly, future, matrix, review, collections, brain dump, search, the lot. It's sticky until you change it. Flip to personal when you close the laptop and work literally disappears until morning. That's the feature.

Fix a mislabel anytime: click the entry and add #w or #p at the end.

8 · The daily rhythm

1. Morning ... open Today. Whatever carried over gets a verdict: do it, move it, or strike it.
2. All day ... log as it happens. Don't organize, don't overthink. Capture now, judge later.
3. Evening ... mark the wins. What's unfinished will greet you tomorrow, and that's the system working.
4. Month's end ... run the Month-end review: every open task on one page, each with done / migrate / strike buttons. A whole month settled in two minutes flat.

The friction is the feature. Re-migrating a task by hand forces the only question that matters ... is this actually worth doing?

9 · Everywhere, and yours

On your phone ... open the site in your mobile browser and hit "Add to Home Screen." msslmemo installs like an app and rides with you.

Your data stays yours ... download the entire journal (every entry, collection, and brain dump) as plain Markdown anytime from your profile. No lock-in. It's your notebook; we just host it.

Never lose a thought ... brain dump drafts auto-save in your browser while you type. A closed tab costs you nothing.

Links ... a plain list of named bookmarks at /links: name it, paste the url, click to open in a new tab. #w in the name tags it work, the scope switch filters it, and search finds it. The pages you keep going back to, one click deep.

Email it in ... grab your private address in your profile and forward anything to it: the email becomes a brain dump, subject first. Only senders you've approved get through, and #w in the subject tags it work. Great for getting things out of your inbox and into the system.

Make it look like you ... pick your theme in your profile: Paper, Gold, Night, or High contrast, plus a dyslexia-friendly font option.

Plans · Free vs Pro

Early access: everybody eats. Every account gets full Pro, free, for now.