babel

The task manager
that works nights.

From Excel alumni

Pachinko moves your work forward by pulling helpful, new information from the feeds you curate, while you sleep.

Another todo and notetaking app?

No. This one works nights.

What can Pachinko
do for you?

feeds + functions

Pipelines that run while you're away.

The morning news arrives; a Function reads it against your portfolio and files a note on what changed. New trend data lands; another drafts tweets in your voice. That's a pipeline - a Feed chained into a Function - and it runs on its own. You review output that shows up already started.

Chat waits for a question. Pachinko responds to change.

feeds

We channel the information you care about.

Most of what you act on starts outside your task app: news, mail, transcripts, bookmarks, reports. Pachinko brings it in - clip things by hand, or schedule Feeds that import them for you.

collect-and-copy

Manual.

Clip a note, a link, or a whole webpage into your inbox from any app, in one keystroke.

feeds

Automatic.

Feeds import on a schedule - X bookmarks, YouTube transcripts, RSS, PDFs, market sources - and each run lands as notes in the section you chose.

ready-made feeds

  • YouTube
  • X
  • PDFs
  • Web Searches
  • SEC Filings
  • FRED
  • US Government
  • US Weather
  • RSS
  • PubMed
  • arXiv
  • GitHub Trending
  • Strava

powerups

It comes trained.

Ready-to-go feeds, instructions, and rules. Import one of 11 Powerups, swap in your context, and it runs like you built it yourself.

Discover Powerups →

functions

Functions: write an instruction once, run it forever.

A Function is an instruction you write once, in plain English, and run forever. Pin the context that should shape the answer. Write what you want done - draft, flag, revise, analyze. Then run new material through it: the results land back in your workspace as notes, drafts, warnings, and next steps you can act on.

Turn what you collect, into what you create.

  1. 01 pin Set background context, rules, preferences, references, and things to act on.
  2. 02 prompt Write instructions, and select options, for how new information should use your pins.
  3. 03 run Select or stream new material to run through your function.
  4. 04 output Get updates, revisions, responses, and next steps to move your projects forward.
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A narrow Pachinko app view showing output shaped into usable work 01 02 03 04

context

Your projects teach AI what matters.

Easily set up areas and projects. Add tasks, notes, and deadlines - the same system you'd keep in Things or Bear. In Pachinko that structure is also context: it's how AI knows what matters to you when new information shows up or you want to guide AI without having to type a huge prompt every time - with privacy control.
upgrade

Pachinko Today view with tasks, notes, projects, and schedule context

mcp

Let outside AI tools use Pachinko.

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other MCP clients can discover visible project material, use context you provide, create sections, create notes, move work, and queue Functions.

Explain MCP →

Make the memories.

Every AI you connect can work from the same memory: the projects, notes, and preferences you choose to make available from Pachinko.

ai memory + privacy →

World-class tasks and notes

Built on a serious task manager.

Imagination is nothing without execution. Pachinko is a serious task and project system, built to carry your ideas to completion.

upgrade
A narrow Pachinko app view showing tasks, notes, and output shaped into usable work
card viewImages and previews alongside your tasks. rich notesImages, formatting, and context stay with the work. today viewCalendar events, reminders, and priorities in one place. importsThings and Bear come over in one pass. themesTwenty ways to make the system feel like yours. and moreAreas, Projects, Sections, Start Dates, Due Dates, Recurring Tasks, Status View, Event Notes, Search, Filters, Integrated AI Chat.

for agents

Leverage your knowledge base.

Semantic search is how AI finds things in your notes through MCP or you do through Chat. Beyond simple keyword matching, semantic search is able to find passages that are related by meaning. No more hunting for the right note or pasting it in - all your notes, whether a thousand or ten, become a powerful personal knowledge base.

privacy

We can keep a secret.

Pachinko is built around local control, iCloud sync, and explicit choices about what AI can see.

iCloud syncYour data never touches our servers. end-to-end encryptionEnable Apple Advanced Data Protection and even Apple can't read it. chosen context onlySelected notes, Function context, and Feed inputs go to your AI provider when you use them. hide from AIRight-click any project to keep it out of automatic AI browsing and MCP lists. your AI accountQueries go directly to your ChatGPT or Claude account.
Pachinko for iPhone showing the Today view with calendar events, tag filters, and notes

iphone & ipad

Pachinko To Go.

Carry Pachinko everywhere you go: calendar events, filters, rich notes with images, Functions, and even capture straight from the camera. Free on the App Store, synced over iCloud.

pricing

Download free.
Add Pro AI.

Try Pro AI

Start a 7-day free trial to unlock AI functions, feeds, chat, themes, and MCP, using your own ChatGPT or Claude account.

$9/mo$229/lifetime
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the word

pachinko パチンコ
origin
Japanese, from pachi-pachi - the crackle of steel balls striking pins - plus the diminutive -ko.
meaning
An upright arcade game in which balls cascade through a field of pins and settle where they land.
and
A pachinko board is a working Galton board: drop enough balls through enough pins and a clean probability distribution appears at the bottom. Order emerges from cascade. That is the whole idea - new information falls through the structure you built, and everything lands where it belongs.