Show HN: Joonote – A note-taking app on your lock screen and notification panel
13 by kilgarenone | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I finally built this app after many years of being sick of unlocking my phone every goddamn time I need to take or view my notes. It particularly sucks when I'm doing my grocery and going down the list. I started building last year June. This is a native app written in Kotlin. And since I'm a 100% Web dev guy, I gotta say this wouldn't have been possible without this AI to assist me. So this isn't "vibe-coded". I simply used the chat interface in Gemini website, manually copy paste codes to build and integrate every single thing in the app! I used gemini to build it just because I was piggybacking on my last company's enterprise subscription. I personally didn't subscribe to any AI (and still don't cuz the free quota seems enough for me :) So I certainly have learnt alot about Android development, architecture patterns, Kotlin syntax, and obeying Google's whims. Can't say I love it all, but for the sake of this app, I will :) Anyway, I finally have the app I wish existed, and I'm using it everyday. It not only does the main thing I needed it to do, but there's also all this stuff: - Make your notes private if you don't want to show them on lock screen. - Create check/to-do lists. - Set one time or recurring reminders. - Full-text search your notes in the app. - Speech-to-text. - Organize your notes with custom or color labels. - Pin the app as a widget on your home screen. - You can auto backup and restore your notes on new install or Android device. - Works offline. - And no funny business happening in the background https://ift.tt/5eyzums It's 30-day trial, then a one-time $9.99 to go Pro forever. I would love you all to check it out, FWIW. Ok thanks!
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser
Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser
8 by johndamaia | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Email is one of those tools we check daily but its underlying experience didn’t evolve much. I use Gmail, as probably most of you reading this. The Arc browser brought joy and taste to browsing the web. Cursor created a new UX with agents ready to work for you in a handy right panel. I use these three tools every day. Since Arc was acquired by Atlassian, I’ve been wondering: what if I built a new interface that applied Arc’s UX to email rather than browser tabs, while making AI agents easily available to help manage emails, events, and files? I built a frontend PoC to showcase the idea. Try it: https://demo.define.app I’m not sure about it though... Is it worth continuing to explore this idea?
8 by johndamaia | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Email is one of those tools we check daily but its underlying experience didn’t evolve much. I use Gmail, as probably most of you reading this. The Arc browser brought joy and taste to browsing the web. Cursor created a new UX with agents ready to work for you in a handy right panel. I use these three tools every day. Since Arc was acquired by Atlassian, I’ve been wondering: what if I built a new interface that applied Arc’s UX to email rather than browser tabs, while making AI agents easily available to help manage emails, events, and files? I built a frontend PoC to showcase the idea. Try it: https://demo.define.app I’m not sure about it though... Is it worth continuing to explore this idea?
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