Thought Train
Stop Using Stickynotes | Use this app instead
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Marc Perel

Thought Train - Stop using sticky notes to remember what you're doing 📒 🚫

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Thought Train is an app that keeps your notes neatly tucked into your menubar, right where you can see them

✅ 10,000+ users

✅ Keep a list of quick notes

✅ Highlight more than one thought, and they'll scroll like a carousel

✅ Stop tabbing around

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John O'Nolan
This is such a cool idea. Would love to hear the back story about how you came up with it :)
Marc Perel
Maker
@johnonolan Hey John, I literally got so tired of forgetting what I was doing 'between' things. Between email, Slack and Skype, and all the other distractions; I kept having a moment of "hmmm what was I doing again?", and so after a quick failed Google I decided to build something that was always visible, but unobtrusive... That's how Thought Train came about, to keep my 'train of thought'. (I'm a massive fan of Ghost btw)
Ryan Hoover
Super unique, @marcperel. I've definitely made the mistake of CMD+TAB'ing between too many things at once. Separately, this Mac menubar app is similarly minimalistic.
Marc Perel
Maker
@rrhoover When I saw Mac menubar, I thought "damn I should really put Thought Train up now!" I like their minimalism, I'm looking already at un-designing Thought Train to take up less room.
Victor Gross
Hey @marcperel , nice app ! what about an autoselect to get the two clicks (1/click on the icon 2/ click on the input field to start typing) in one (click on the icon and start inputing directly) ? ++
Marc Perel
Maker
@vicgrss Yeah I like that idea. I also imagine a contextual Right Click > Send to Thought Train would be cool on highlighted text so you can add it right away.
Michael Marshall Smith
Interesting idea. Any plans to have the thought list sync via iCloud, or at least to be able to store/read the file in DropBox or similar? Be nice to be able to have them on both desktop and laptop.
Marc Perel
Maker
@ememess I considered this, but for the initial use I didn’t want to add complexity of APIs. It’s something I’ll consider though, because most thoughts arrive away from my machine too, usually on my bike 🚲 or in the car 🚗
Michael Marshall Smith
@marcperel Makes sense. Tho simply being able to choose where the app reads/writes to would do it for DropBox...
Marc Perel
Maker
@ememess I’ll see how that pans out in an update thanks mate.
skaplan
Needs built-in update funtion auto start function scrolling just the title of note, not the all note
Marc Perel
Maker
@sedatkaplan_ Auto-startup is an important one that's coming soon thanks :)
skaplan
@marcperel need in app update functionality take new features
Caner Gumus
When I try to open it, it crashes. "The application “ThoughtTrain” can’t be opened." :(
Jithin Raj
Getting the same error :( @marcperel Installed other apps, worked fine. Problem persists with Thought Train despite multiple attempts.
Marc Perel
Maker
@jithinraj @caner right click on the app and click "open", then your Mac should prompt you to open the app. Otherwise DM me on Twitter and let's figure it out!
Jithin Raj
@marcperel Tried it and many other suggested ways online. Not happening. Is you DM open on Twitter?
Caner Gumus
@jithinraj @marcperel I've already tried it but still the same.
Jason Ruggiero
@caner Any luck with this. Im getting the same error.
Vincent Denise

I bought this app (It's pay what you want model) because I was looking for an alternative to Stickies. Good work!

Pros:

Simple and works well.

Cons:

None so far.

Girish patil
@s_omeal had started working on the similar app for linux & windows I guess.
Girish patil
Jamis Charles
Trying it out now. Seems great. Seeing some overlap with my other menu items. @marcperel How did you get your menu bar so empty? Love it. 2 suggestions: Nice typography. Reverse the order of the list
Jamis Charles
@marcperel *nicer typography. Text feels too large and cramped (kerning)
Marc Perel
Maker
@jamischarles Thanks James - My empty menubar is a picture :) - Previously it always did the carousal effect, so it had a max-width, but we removed that and made it static, lots of early users found it too distracting. - I want to take another stab at a simpler design with better fonts. What I do to combat limited space is just use emojis.
Vincent Denise
Hey @MarcPerel, Thought Train is cool. Do you plan to add emoji support soon? 🚂
Marc Perel
Maker
@yesnoornext It supports them if you copy & paste them in, I want to add an emoji button for quicker adding though.
Vincent Denise
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