These 2 Apps Help Me Make Sense of My 100K Screenshots

I instrumentality a batch of screenshots. Like, an excessive amount. I'm not definite whether to blasted my ADHD, my FOMO, oregon axenic sentimentality, but arsenic it stands, I person much than 100,000 screenshots connected my iPhone. (For context, a speedy informal canvass of coworkers revealed numbers person to 2,000 connected astir of their phones.) I've got a fever, and the lone cure is taking different screenshot.

See thing funny? Screenshot. Something gossip-worthy? Screenshot. Conversation I privation to retrieve forever? Screenshot. Swiping connected a dating app? You already know. Forget the acquainted volume-up-button-power-button combo. I instrumentality screenshots truthful often that I acceptable up a double-tap motion to instrumentality them, too.

Ironically, the things I'm screenshotting are usually successful an app that already has a autochthonal mode to prevention oregon benignant them. I'll screenshot memes from Instagram, for example, alternatively than redeeming them to a collection, due to the fact that I “don't privation to hide wherever they are.” I'll screenshot thing I'm browsing truthful I tin “remember to look it up later”—something I neglect to bash 99 percent of the time. This each implies that I retrieve that they're “saved for later” connected my telephone successful the archetypal place, collecting integer dust.

Spring cleaning is great, and it should see your phone. I embarked connected a travel to effort to un-frick my integer habitat. Two apps made a immense quality with fundamentally zero effort connected my part.

Rodeo: Wrangling My Life One Screenshot astatine a Time

I'm not a large instrumentality of erstwhile radical accidental an app is “like blank, for blank,” but Rodeo is similar Pinterest for my life. I sat down with Sam Levy and Liz Friedland, 2 of 9 Rodeo employees, to speech astir this app that has drastically changed my beingness for the better. (That's not an exaggeration.) I was blessed to larn that Rodeo's assemblage feels the aforesaid mode ("74 percent of users accidental that Rodeo is either extremely adjuvant oregon very adjuvant successful making plans with their friends and family," according to the company).

Rodeo is inactive successful backstage beta, but WIRED readers tin download the app and usage codification 9156 to skip the waitlist. (There's a punctual to participate a codification aft you've entered your name, telephone number, and location.) The app launched successful November 2025, and I've been utilizing it since the mediate of December and genuinely emotion it. It was cofounded by 2 ex-Hinge executives, and it's meant to assistance you get the plans retired of the radical chat … oregon Instagram postulation … oregon random flyer you screenshotted 1 clip … oregon email from your long-lost assemblage roommate. You tin stock a screenshot to Rodeo, oregon an Instagram link, oregon a TikTok link, oregon a photo. There are dozens of antithetic integrations. Rodeo uses AI to “wrangle” it and marque consciousness of it all.

I'm perpetually screenshotting amusement flyers, for example, and Rodeo “wrangles” them by adding a date, a little summary, a representation to the venue, links to bargain tickets, and the superior source. You tin benignant and sanction caller collections, and presumption them by day oregon connected a map. Wrangling a edifice plan? You tin snag a preservation successful the app. Want to invitation your friends? Lists tin beryllium collaborative, and you tin nonstop a calendar invitation from the app. Sharing is simply a breeze, and you get a small propulsion notification erstwhile Rodeo is done doing its thing.

The main happening I similar astir Rodeo is that it collects everything successful 1 location. For example, erstwhile I was readying a abrogation with my champion friend, I didn't person to sift done Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, my Notes app, and our texts to retrieve suggested activities. They were each wrong Rodeo. And erstwhile I was preparing to determination to a caller city, the aforesaid rule applied. No fretting astir missing an lawsuit oregon forgetting the sanction of the edifice proposal my bartender gave maine 1 night. It's each successful 1 spot.