Calamus Ideas

Calamus Ideas is a notes and writing-tracker app for novelists and anyone working on a long project.

WRITE THE NOTE BEFORE YOU LOSE IT
Open the app, type, save. There is no project to pick and no file to name.

Share an article from Safari and the link is attached to the note for you.

FILE IT SO YOU CAN FIND IT
Every note can carry a category, a pen name, and a book title.

Eight categories are built in: Book Title, Character Name, Concept, Article, Phrase, Design, Musing, Other. Add your own.

Create pen names and book titles inside the app. You do not have to set them up somewhere else first.

COLLECT QUOTES
Save lines from what you read, and from your own books.

Quotes are grouped by pen name and book.

Share a quote to any app on your phone. The book title and your buy link go with it.

Quoting somebody else? Record who said it.

FOCUS TIMER
A Pomodoro timer for writing sittings.

Set 5 to 90 minutes, in 5 minute steps.

Put your own photograph behind the clock.

Choose how it tells you time is up: a sound, a screen flash, or a vibration. Set it in Settings.

When you finish, send the sitting to your writing log and add a note about what you got done.

WRITING LOG
Words written and words cut are counted as two separate numbers, because a day spent cutting is still a day of work.

See both, by day.

Keep a daily streak.

Assign any session to a pen name and a book, or leave it unassigned.

Log a session by hand, or send one straight from the Focus timer.

WORKS WITH CALAMUS
Everything saves to your account. The same notes, quotes, and log are on your Mac, your iPad, and in the browser.

A note assigned to a book is waiting with that book when you sit down to write.

Already own Calamus? Calamus Ideas is included. Sign in with the same account.

SUBSCRIPTION
Calamus Ideas, $4.99 per month, auto-renewing.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings.

Terms of Use: https://calamusapp.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://calamusapp.com/privacy

Without an active subscription you can still read everything you wrote, take a full copy of it, and delete any of it. You cannot make changes.