About Simple Memo

I started using Captio around 2013. At a time when most memo apps were competing on "organization" and "management" features, Captio made the opposite argument: launch, type, send, done.

I was completely hooked. It wasn't a meeting notes app, a task manager, or a cloud-synced notebook. It was a tool for firing the thought in your head directly to your email, with zero friction. That frictionlessness was the whole point — no context-switching, no deciding which folder it goes in, no barrier between the idea and the capture.

"What would I do if Captio ever disappeared?" — I asked myself that more than once over the years.

In October 2024, that fear became real. Captio's cloud service shut down, and my one-tap notes stopped going out. The app had already left the App Store about two years earlier, and the developer had posted an end-of-life notice on captio.co, saying he could no longer dedicate the resources needed to keep it stable and secure.

That evening, I decided to build it myself. Out of respect for what Captio had been, and out of a stubborn belief that this kind of tool deserves to exist, I opened Xcode and started writing UIKit code from scratch.