Tell your brain
Type or speak something you learned on Brain, review the exact note and save it in your second brain.
Last verified 2026-10-18
In the web app
Where it is
Tell your brain is the first card on Brain.
It needs a connected second brain, a role of your own, or both; without either the card says "Connect your second brain in Setup." with a link to Setup.
Save as
Save as offers Task, Learning and Idea. Task appears only when you have at least one role; without a connected second brain, Learning and Idea are shown but disabled, with a link to Setup.
Choose Learning to save it in your second brain's inbox, or Idea to save it with your ideas.
Save as a task
Choose Task to turn what you typed, spoke or shared into an open task instead of a note in your second brain; it never touches your second brain.
Fill Task title, pick one of your own roles under Role, and add a Due date if you like, then press Add task.
It appears on Tasks with the reason "Shared to zonask", the same as a task you add there.
Type or speak
Write what you learned in What did you learn?, up to 4,000 characters.
Add a Title, a Source link that starts with https:// and a Role if you like; all three are optional.
Press Speak and talk: your words appear in the text box as you speak, and you can change them afterwards.
Speech language offers Deutsch (Schweiz) and English; it starts with the language of your browser.
Listening stops when you press Stop, or after 60 seconds.
Speaking needs Chrome, Edge or Safari; in another browser the card says so, and you type instead.
When the browser blocks the microphone, the card says "zonask cannot use the microphone. Allow it in the browser, or type."
What happens to your voice
Speech is turned into text by your browser, not by zonask; zonask never records, uploads or keeps audio.
Your browser's maker may process the speech: in Chrome, for example, the audio is sent to a web service for recognition, so speaking does not work offline.
Review, then save
Review shows the exact note that will be saved: your text, then the source, the role and today's date.
When your second brain answers within 3 seconds, Review also lists up to five related notes it already holds, by their path only.
Save to my brain saves exactly that note once and then names the place in your second brain where it is.
If zonask cannot reach your brain before sending the note, it keeps your confirmed note for up to 24 hours and tells you so. The card clears because the note is safe. A note that may already have been sent is never queued or sent again; the card instead says "Not saved. Your brain did not answer. Your text is still here."
Waiting for your brain appears above Tell your brain. It shows each kept note’s title and when it was kept, in your own time zone. Try now makes one attempt, and Discard removes a note after confirmation. A note stays waiting as long as nothing of it was sent: while your brain is unreachable, refuses the sign-in or asks you to sign in again. If a send may have gone out, or the 24 hours end, Brain shows Not delivered and keeps the note readable for another 24 hours before removal. zonask never sends that note twice. While your brain is down, the notice about it comes back only when you save or try a note yourself, not with every delivery zonask attempts on its own. If the waiting notes cannot be read, Brain says Waiting notes could not be read.
Edit goes back to your text without saving.
No AI rewrites your words.
What zonask keeps
zonask keeps no audio. A note zonask could not send is kept as an encrypted envelope for up to 24 hours; if it remains undelivered, it stays readable on Brain for another 24 hours before removal. Otherwise, the note lives only in your second brain.
zonask records only that a note was saved, to which part of your second brain and whether it worked.
Share from another app
Install zonask first: in Chrome or Edge on a computer, choose Install app; on Android, choose Add to Home screen.
Then, in another app, choose Share and pick zonask: the title, text and link you shared fill the capture card on Brain, with the line "Shared to zonask. Review it, then save."
If you have a role, the share opens as a task by default: Task title holds the shared title, or else the first line of the shared text.
Nothing is saved yet: review the fields, change anything you like, then Save to my brain or, for a task, Add task.
This works only with an installed zonask on Android, and on Chrome or Edge on a computer. It does not work on iPhone, iPad or Firefox; there, paste into Tell your brain instead, or use the Shortcut below on an iPhone or iPad.
On an iPhone or iPad
Safari offers no share target for an installed web app, so zonask has no share extension on iPhone or iPad; a Shortcut you build once stands in for it. Brain has a "Share from an iPhone" section, collapsed under Tell your brain, with the same steps as here and a Copy button for the address.
- Open the Shortcuts app, tap New Shortcut, then open its details and set the name to "Send to zonask".
- In the shortcut's details, turn on Show in Share Sheet, and keep its input set to accept text and links.
- Add an action that percent-encodes the shared text so it is safe inside a web address, run on the shortcut's input.
- Add an action that holds one line of text: the address copied from the Copy button on Brain, then the encoded value from the step above.
- Add the Open URLs action with that line of text.
- In any app, choose Share, then Send to zonask.
This opens Safari, not an installed home-screen icon; a very long selection may not fit in a web address, so zonask keeps the first 4,000 characters; images and files cannot be shared this way. Sign in to zonask in Safari once and stay signed in. If you open the Shortcut while signed out, Safari lands you on the sign-in page first: sign in there, then open Brain to review and save what you shared.
On a computer or phone other people use, sign out when you are done. If you open the Shortcut while signed out and then leave without signing in, zonask keeps what you shared for up to 15 minutes in that browser only; signing out, or simply opening the sign-in page again, deletes it right away.
In Claude or ChatGPT
Say, for example, 'save this to my brain' followed by what you learned, such as short meetings work better with the agenda first.
The assistant shows the note in your words with save_to_knowledge and saves it only after you agree.
It can add a source link and one of your roles, which appear in the note as Source and Role lines.
After the save it tells you where the note went.
To speak instead of typing, use the voice mode of Claude or ChatGPT; zonask receives only the text.