I immediately scrolled. For better or worse, my notes app is the piece of technology closest to looking like the inside of my brain: a bit chaotic, annoyingly detail-oriented, and perhaps perpetually nostalgic. While handwritten to-do lists hold my life together, my notes app contains the catch-all, the weird (one that simply says “possum”), and the important (a list of people’s birthdays) coexisting.
For years, people have observed the delightful, vulnerable chaos of the notes app as a counterpoint to hyper-curated feeds. Charley Locke, writing for The Atlantic in 2024, noted that the app is “essentially built-in scratch paper on a phone, and it reveals a person’s digital subconscious.” A 2025 piece by Elahe Izadi for The Washington Post asked strangers to reveal the contents of their notes apps, an act somewhere between a confession and a grand reveal.
Recently, when looking back through notes, Andy Carr, 37, a PhD candidate and part-time adjunct instructor in New York, found something in addition to those for grocery shopping or lesson planning for college courses he teaches. In summer 2020, Carr, his brother, and his sister-in-law were navigating end-of-life care for his mother. There was a jumble of memories, from notes of contacts that hospice care nurses passed along to one reading “Skippy pb jingle—send writer to prison,” a vent about a peanut butter commercial that ran incessantly on the TV at home as the family worked to make his mom comfortable and provide as much physical help as they could.
Nadia De Ala, 37, a leadership and negotiation coach who moved to Mexico from the Bay Area two years ago, still has the first note she ever put in the app in 2016: a poem she remembers writing while dreading her commute to a previous job. “I really feel like it’s a time capsule, because it keeps a lot of memories, the essence of who I’ve been at every iteration and season of my life,” she says, adding that it’s even interesting to look back on foods she liked to grocery shop for.
“You’ll find some very heartfelt things that are digital,” she explains, adding that sometimes people don’t think of these “digital scraps or mementos” as being particularly valuable, but many people hold onto voicemails or even emails.
A slingshot backward through a scroll, and I meet: Myself from 2017 who saved a recording of her childhood cat purring; 2019 me, writing interview questions for my first book; my 2022 self nervously drafting multiple iterations of the same message asking for her stuff back at the end of a relationship; me in 2024, who apparently was fleetingly into logging everything she baked.
Look at this mess, I think, as I thumb through 1,781 half-baked thoughts, drafts, memories, and past selves. What chaos. I could never delete her.
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