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 — and even that has a default.
Nothing to arrange
No canvas, no free placement, no layout that slowly becomes a mess you have to keep up with. An empty compartment stays visible with its name on the rail, because the empty fork slot is what tells you where forks go.
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.
Labels you name yourself
Seven of them, straight out of the old Labels control panel. Rename “Hot” to whatever you actually mean and everything wearing it updates at once. A small fixed vocabulary beats an unlimited colour well nobody can remember.
The same library everywhere
Mac, iPhone and iPad over iCloud, off until you switch it on. Each drawer syncs as its own record, so two devices editing different drawers merge cleanly instead of one overwriting the other. Large files can be left behind if you’d rather.
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.
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. 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
Free to try, with nothing held back — no cap on drawers, no watermark, no feature switched off. This app holds the only copy of what you put in it, so a trial that degraded your own library would be the wrong idea. A license removes the occasional reminder and supports the work. Requires macOS 15 or later. 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 privacy questions, see the privacy policy.