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Capture everything that matters.

Scan the mail, snap a receipt, save a kid's drawing, record a meeting — Harbor keeps it all, forever, and makes every bit of it findable.

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Scanning paper mail into Harbor at a sunlit kitchen table

Scan

Turn paper into a searchable archive.

Point your phone at a document, ID card, warranty, or handwritten recipe. It's saved, OCR'd, and there when you need it years later — down to the words on the page.

A scanned PDF document in Harbor on a phone

Watched folders

Scan the whole drawer. Walk away.

Point Harbor at the folder your scanner saves into — on your Mac or PC, or in Google Drive or Dropbox — and everything that lands there becomes a note on its own, filed in the notebook you picked and tagged the way you asked. Two switches go further. Turn on “suggest a title from the file’s contents” and the words on each page go to an AI that names the note from them, so you get “2026 Property Tax Statement” instead of scan_0042.pdf. Turn on “guess the notebook from the file’s contents” and those words, the file’s name, and your notebook names and recent note titles go to an AI that moves each scan to the notebook it fits. Both are off until you turn them on. Feed it the stack, come back to an archive.

How watched folders work →

A scanned service invoice in Harbor, the note titled from what's on the page rather than the PDF's filename

Record

Meetings become searchable notes.

Record audio — including system audio on the web and Mac, so the call comes through too — then press Transcribe for a speaker-labeled transcript you can search like any note, with a summary when you want the short version.

A voice memo in Harbor with its transcript

Keep

The stuff you'd hate to lose.

Photos, PDFs, spreadsheets, kids' art, report cards — kept for good, synced everywhere, and never filling your disk. Harbor pulls files down only when you need them.

The Files view in Harbor showing every attachment in one place

Add fast

Capture in a tap.

A new note, task, recording, or attachment from one button — or the Web Clipper, a global desktop hotkey, your phone's share sheet, or email-to-note at your private Harbor address.

Harbor's quick-create menu: note, task, recording, attachment

Common questions

Can I email things into Harbor?
Yes. Every account gets a private @m.harbor.my address — forward mail to it and the subject becomes the title, the body becomes the note, and attachments come along. Images and PDFs get OCR’d, and a text or Markdown file’s words go into the note too. An @Notebook or #tag in the subject files it as it lands. How email to notes works →
Can someone else email notes into my account?
Yes, if they have your address. Harbor takes mail from any sender — that’s what lets a scanner, a forwarding rule or a service like Zapier send notes in — so treat the address like a password and keep it to yourself. If it leaks, reset it. That’s the only way to revoke it.
Why did a note from my watched folder rename itself?
Because you asked it to. With “suggest a title from the file’s contents” switched on for that folder, the note arrives under its filename straight away and renames itself a few moments later, once the page has been read — the import never waits on that. If you name the note yourself in the meantime, yours wins. The OCR’d text goes to OpenAI, only for files that folder imports, and never for an encrypted note. On a folder on your Mac or PC, a file with no text yet can go as a picture instead, the same as pressing Suggest title. It’s one of two folder switches that hand your note text to an AI without you pressing a button; the other picks the notebook, below. It’s off until you switch it on, in any Harbor app, on every plan including free, up to 100 notes a day from Drive and Dropbox folders. How watched folders work →
Why did a note from my watched folder move to another notebook?
Because that folder has “guess the notebook from the file’s contents” switched on. Each file lands in the folder’s own notebook first, and once the page has been read, Harbor moves it to the notebook it fits best. If nothing fits well, it stays put, and if you move it yourself first, your move wins. To guess, Harbor sends the file’s OCR’d text and name to a company called TypeSafe, along with your notebook names, their stacks and a few recent note titles from each. A notebook that encrypts by default is never sent and never picked. It’s off until you switch it on, folder by folder. It’s in the web app now and in the other apps from their next update, for Google Drive, Dropbox and folders on your Mac or PC. How the notebook guess works →
Does everything I capture get OCR'd?
Scans, photos and PDFs go through OCR on our servers, including the ones you email in, so the words inside them turn up in search. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text files don’t need OCR. Harbor reads their words straight out of the file, so search finds those too. The exception is encrypted notes — we can’t read those, by design. How OCR search works →

Keep exploring

Search & OCR → The Web Clipper → Notes & notebooks →

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