I take a lot of screenshots. Like, an excessive amount. I’m not sure whether to blame my ADHD, my FOMO, or pure sentimentality, but as it stands, I have more than 100,000 screenshots on my iPhone. (For context, a quick informal poll of coworkers revealed numbers closer to 2,000 on most of their phones.) I’ve got a fever, and the only cure is taking another screenshot.
See something funny? Screenshot. Something gossip-worthy? Screenshot. Conversation I want to remember forever? Screenshot. Swiping on a dating app? You already know. Forget the familiar volume-up-button-power-button combo. I take screenshots so frequently that I set up a double-tap gesture to take them, too.
Ironically, the things I’m screenshotting are usually in an app that already has a native way to save or sort them. I’ll screenshot memes from Instagram, for example, rather than saving them to a collection, because I “don’t want to forget where they are.” I’ll screenshot something I’m browsing so I can “remember to look it up later”—something I fail to do 99 percent of the time. This all implies that I remember that they’re “saved for later” on my phone in the first place, collecting digital dust.
Spring cleaning is great, and it should include your phone. I embarked on a journey to try to un-frick my digital habitat. Two apps made a huge difference with basically zero effort on my part.
Rodeo: Wrangling My Life One Screenshot at a Time
I’m not a big fan of when people say an app is “like blank, for blank,” but Rodeo is like Pinterest for my life. I sat down with Sam Levy and Liz Friedland, two of nine Rodeo employees, to talk about this app that has drastically changed my life for the better. (That’s not an exaggeration.) I was happy to learn that Rodeo’s community feels the same way (“74 percent of users say that Rodeo is either extremely helpful or very helpful in making plans with their friends and family,” according to the company).
Rodeo is still in private beta, but WIRED readers can download the app and use code 9156 to skip the waitlist. (There’s a prompt to enter a code after you’ve entered your name, phone number, and location.) The app launched in November 2025, and I’ve been using it since the middle of December and genuinely love it. It was cofounded by two ex-Hinge executives, and it’s meant to help you get the plans out of the group chat … or Instagram collection … or random flyer you screenshotted one time … or email from your long-lost college roommate. You can share a screenshot to Rodeo, or an Instagram link, or a TikTok link, or a photo. There are dozens of different integrations. Rodeo uses AI to “wrangle” it and make sense of it all.
I’m constantly screenshotting show flyers, for example, and Rodeo “wrangles” them by adding a date, a brief summary, a map to the venue, links to buy tickets, and the primary source. You can sort and name new collections, and view them by date or on a map. Wrangling a restaurant plan? You can snag a reservation in the app. Want to invite your friends? Lists can be collaborative, and you can send a calendar invite from the app. Sharing is a breeze, and you get a little push notification when Rodeo is done doing its thing.
The main thing I like about Rodeo is that it collects everything in one location. For example, when I was planning a vacation with my best friend, I didn’t have to sift through Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, my Notes app, and our texts to remember suggested activities. They were all inside Rodeo. And when I was preparing to move to a new city, the same principle applied. No fretting about missing an event or forgetting the name of the restaurant recommendation my bartender gave me one night. It’s all in one spot.
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