The Pain: Perfect on Desktop, Broken on Mobile
On a day off, I was playing with my daughter when something crossed my mind — I wanted to jot it down. I opened Notion on my phone. The loading never finished. While I tapped through layers of pages trying to find the right spot, my daughter called out, "Daddy, are you done yet?" A few seconds had never felt so long. I gave up on the note and put my phone away.
Notion on a desktop is excellent. Tabs let you switch contexts in an instant, shortcuts take you between databases, and updating properties is quick and easy. There's a real feeling of everything being at your fingertips. But the moment you pick up your phone, that comfort vanishes. No tabs. No shortcuts. Just deep hierarchies and endless tapping.
"This would take a second on my PC" — that small gap quietly chips away at your motivation to open Notion on your phone. Before you know it, you dread opening it at all. This pain is where dumppp started.
The Philosophy: Dump Per Pulse
"dumppp" stands for "Dump Per Pulse." Every time a thought hits you, dump it into your second brain. Note-taking should be that effortless.
But most tools that connect to Notion only focus on the "posting" part — they ignore everything around the act of posting. To truly capture thoughts fast, just throwing things in isn't enough:
- See what you just posted
- Know which context it belongs to
- Decide what to do next
When all three happen seamlessly, the think-write-organize loop never breaks — even on your phone. dumppp was built around three things to make that happen:
- Instant tab switching: Set it up once, and move between work and personal with a single tap. What you used to do on your desktop, now with just your thumb.
- Auto-configuration per tab: Pick a tab, and the destination and tags are already set. Complex property settings stay hidden behind the tab, so you barely have to tap at all.
- The satisfaction of swiping to "done": Completing a task isn't a checkbox — it's a swipe. That small sense of accomplishment pushes you toward the next thing.
dumppp is not a Notion competitor. It's the fastest mobile app for making Notion shine as the database it was meant to be. All of Notion's power, none of the mobile friction. That's why I built it.
The Promise: No Waiting, No Forgetting
I started building dumppp for a deeply personal reason. I want to do right by both my work and my family. But whenever I'm focused on one, something important about the other pops into my head — and by the time I try to write it down, it's already slipping away. I wanted to break that cycle, so I spent every spare moment building this app on my own.
So I became obsessed with "no waiting." What you write shows up on screen immediately; syncing happens quietly in the background. In the subway, on an airplane — no worrying about signal. Write the moment you think of it. Feel safe the moment you write it. That's the minimum bar for this app.
When note-taking gets faster, you start catching not just work ideas but the small everyday stuff too. Groceries someone asked you to pick up. Weekend plans. Offhand promises you made while talking. And honestly, "I forget my promises to my wife less often now." For me, that matters more than any metric. That's the kind of change dumppp is after.
A Work in Progress
Honestly, dumppp isn't finished. I build it alone, in whatever time I can find between work and family. There might be bugs. There might be missing features. But above all else, never stopping the user's flow — that's what I care about most.
Because I'm building this alone, your feedback directly shapes what gets built next. The roadmap is public. The Discord is open. "This part is hard to use." "I wish it could do this." Tell me straight. Your frustrations and wishes become the next update.
If people simply find it useful, that's more than enough for me. But if you want to help shape what it becomes — that would make me even happier.