Promise finds the follow-through before it becomes a manual task.

Task managers are for work you already know to enter

A task manager is useful when you decide something belongs on a list. Promise is different: it looks for commitments, follow-ups, dates, and details inside the conversations and voice notes where they first appear.

How Promise is different

• Promise can identify possible commitments from Gmail and Outlook conversations.
• Promise can turn short voice notes into remembered follow-through.
• Promise keeps source evidence nearby where possible, so reminders are reviewable.
• Promise does not require every item to be manually created and maintained.

When to use each

Use a task manager for projects, checklists, and planned work. Use Promise for the relationship-heavy promises that are easy to lose: the follow-up someone requested, the update you said you would send, or the detail you mentioned quickly while moving through the day.

Memory with receipts

A detached AI-generated task can be hard to trust later. Promise is built around memory with receipts: preserving the original context behind extracted actions where possible, so you can review the basis before acting.

Boundaries

Promise is not an autonomous sending agent and does not replace a project-management system. It helps you notice and review follow-through, but messages are not sent without explicit user confirmation.

Learn more

Read how Promise works, the memory with receipts thesis, and the security overview.