MindDrawer
Everything a project collects — notes, links, pictures, recordings, videos, files — dropped into a drawer and filed by itself. There is no canvas to tidy and no folder tree to maintain.
MindDrawer is included in my bundles, along with over twenty other apps.
Drop it and it’s filed
A screenshot goes to Pictures, a voice memo to Recordings, a YouTube link to Video, a PDF to Files. You never choose a compartment, because the thing itself decides. The only question the app ever asks is which drawer.
Nothing to arrange
No canvas, no free placement, no layout to keep tidy. Just three views of the same drawer: Tray for cards, List for compact rows, and Bento for everything at full size.
Search reaches inside things
The words in a screenshot, the text in a PDF, what was actually said in a recording. All read on your own device and never uploaded — so searching for a phrase you half remember finds the picture it was printed on.
Color labels on everything
Cabinets, drawers and the items inside them can all carry a color label. Name them, color them, and add as many as you need — rename one and everything wearing it updates at once, on every device.
Notes to yourself
Cabinets, drawers and individual items each have a note field for your own comments — why you saved something, what to do with it next. Notes on items are included in search.
Your files stay files
Drag anything out to the Finder, to Mail, to anywhere, and you get the real thing under a readable name — not an export, not a copy of a copy. Add to MindDrawer sits in every Share menu on the way in.
Ask Claude about it
Press ⌥⌘F and ask about the drawer you’re in, a cabinet, or everything. Answers name the items they came from as links, so the source is one click away. Bring your own Anthropic API key; the assistant is off until you turn it on. On the Mac.
Tidying, on request
Ask Claude to file a note, move a batch of things to another drawer, relabel them, or clear out what you don’t need. Everything one answer changed is listed under it and undoes in a single step — or switch changes off and keep it to answers.
Exports you describe
“A CSV of every link with its title.” “All the photos from the trip.” Ask for it and the file appears under the answer, ready to save or drag out — a document Claude wrote, the original files in a folder, or a drawer package for another Mac.
Screenshots
On iPhone and iPad
The same drawers, wherever you are.
MindDrawer is a native iPhone and iPad app too, running the same library over iCloud — every drawer, every compartment, the same search that reads inside your pictures and PDFs. A change made on one device arrives on the others by itself, and each drawer syncs as its own record, so a note added on the phone and a file added on the Mac both survive.
Most filing on a phone happens from somewhere else, so Add to MindDrawer sits in every Share menu: pick a drawer and it’s put away. Reordering is a mode you enter deliberately, because a long press on a touchscreen already means something.
Get MindDrawer
On the App Store for Mac, iPhone and iPad, or free to try as a direct download for the Mac — with nothing held back. A license for the direct build removes the occasional reminder and supports the work. Requires macOS 15, or iOS 17 on iPhone and iPad. Buying more than one app? MindDrawer is included in my bundles.
Support
Questions or bug reports? Email ben.dansby@gmail.com and you’ll get a reply, usually within a day or two.
For how-to documentation, see the MindDrawer documentation.
For privacy questions, see the privacy policy.