Home for notes, tasks, and knowledge.
One simple list for everything on your mind. Notes, to-dos, plans, ideas and files live together, so you stop hunting across five apps. Nothing to set up — just start typing.
Works in your browser, on every device. Sign in with your email or Google.
One list, for all of it.
Your project, your shopping list, today’s plan and your journal sit in the same place. Nothing to configure, nothing to keep in sync by hand.
Everything in one place
Notes, tasks, plans, journal, files. Put anything under anything, and open any line as its own page when it grows.
Nothing to set up
No templates, no databases, no folders to design. A bullet is the only building block, and it does everything.
Always with you
Phone, laptop, or offline on a train. Your list is on every device, and it stays yours.
Start small, grow without limits.
Write a line. Put the details under it. When a line turns into a project, open it as its own page and keep going. Nothing is ever too big for a list, because a list can hold lists.
Click any bullet to open it as a page; breadcrumbs take you back.
Your whole day on one page.
Today’s tasks sit next to today’s meetings. Give any task a time and it appears on the timeline; drag it when the day changes. Your Google Calendar shows alongside, so you plan the day you actually have.
Calendar events are read-only — Nested List never writes to your calendar.
A journal you’ll actually keep.
One shortcut opens today’s entry from anywhere. Write a line, or three. Anything you date shows up on that day, so the journal and the calendar tell one story.
Ctrl+J starts today’s entry with the date already in place.
Find anything, even with typos.
One search box covers notes, to-dos, files and the text inside your PDFs and photos. Results say where they came from, and a “Similar” section catches the things you remember by meaning rather than by word.
Press ⌘K anywhere. “Similar” results come from an optional index you can switch off.
The same item in every place it belongs.
Put the launch checklist under the project and under today. It is one item, not a copy: tick something off in either place and it is done in both.
A diamond bullet marks an item that lives in more than one place.
Your files live next to your notes.
Drop in photos, PDFs and documents. They stay with the note they belong to, open in place, and the text inside them is searchable.
Paste, drag in from your desktop, or attach from the menu.
Done means gone — until you want it back.
Finished items fade out of the way so the list only shows what is left. One click brings them back when you need the record.
⌘Enter completes an item; the eye icon in the header shows or hides completed ones.
Works offline, lives everywhere.
Everything you write is on your device first, so nothing waits for a connection. Open the same list on your phone, your laptop and your work machine; changes meet in the middle, and if two devices edit the same line, both versions are kept.
It follows your system’s light or dark setting, installs like an app, and gets out of the way.
Install it from your browser’s menu; share a link or a thought straight into the journal.
Tens of thousands of notes still open instantly.
Nested List was built and tested on a list of 47,000 items. It opens in well under a second and stays quick as you scroll, search and type — this year and in ten years.
What people keep in it.
A few of the ways one list replaces a pile of apps.
Plan your day
Tasks, meetings and notes on one page for today, with a timeline that shows the day you actually have.
See how →Keep a journal
One shortcut, one line, done. Entries live next to your plans, not in an app you forget to open.
See how →Run a project
Goals, tasks, decisions and dates in one outline, with the to-dos also on the day you will do them.
See how →Keep what you learn
Reading notes, research, screenshots and PDFs in one searchable list, linked the way you think.
See how →
Plan a month of posts
Ideas, drafts, shot lists, dates and results, from hook to published, without a spreadsheet.
See how →Your notes stay yours.
Coming from Workflowy? Import your export and everything arrives: structure, notes, dates, completed items, even items that live in two places.
Leaving, or just careful? Export everything at any time as one backup file, or as a folder of Markdown documents you can open anywhere.
Settings → Data. Import accepts Workflowy’s OPML and API exports.
Honest comparisons.
Each one says where the other tool is better. Some of them are.
Nested List vs Apple Notes
Apple Notes is a great notes app. Nested List is for when your notes become to-dos, plans and a journal, and you want them all in one place.
Read the comparison →Nested List vs Notion
Notion can become anything if you build it. Nested List is one list that needs no building, and stays fast enough to think in.
Read the comparison →Nested List vs Obsidian
Obsidian is a toolkit of Markdown files and plugins. Nested List is one list with the day plan and journal built in, for people who would rather write.
Read the comparison →Everything on your mind, in one place.
Open Nested List, type your first line, and put the next thought under it. That is the whole setup.