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Where do your notes go to die ?

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Someone commented on our launch: "the gap between 'wrote it down' and 'actually did it' is where every note I've ever taken goes to die."

That's the whole reason Buddy exists. I have a graveyard of half-thoughts in my note app that never became anything.

So, genuinely curious: where do your notes go to die? Notion you never reopen? A Slack message to yourself? Sticky notes? Tell me your worst one 👇

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I write everything down on paper or in the built-in MacOS reminder app 😅

 Haha paper + reminders, classic ! 😄 Mine was the Xiaomi notes app for years, like the most basic thing possible, just a wall of text I never opened again.

Reminders is funny like that, it pings you but has no clue why you wrote the thing. When something on paper actually gets done for you, what usually does it ? a deadline? someone waiting on you?

I went through my notes to declutter and found a note from 5 years ago.
I went through sticky notes, Google Keep, OneNote, and found more. It felt like empty spaces I left my mark on.

 A five year old note you forgot you wrote is its own little time capsule. "Empty spaces I left my mark on" is genuinely beautiful, and kind of sad too, all that scattered across Keep and OneNote and stickies with nothing ever pulling it together. That scatter is half the problem we are trying to solve. Did the five year old note still mean anything to you, or had you completely lost why it mattered?

 Thank you so much. I completely lost why it mattered just that the words kept nagging me that it was important.

 That nag with no memory of why is such a specific feeling, and you just described the exact thing we are chasing. Someone else on here put it as "I forget intent, not information" and your five year old note is that in one story. The words survived, the why did not. If a note could hold onto the why you wrote it, that nag would actually mean something later. Thank you for sharing that, it stays with me.

 Thank you so much for creating something that will actually mean something years down the road for all of us. You are very kind.

My notes don't die. They become digital fossils.

Every few months I rediscover an idea and think, "This is actually pretty good."

Then I close the note and continue not doing anything about it. 😅

 "Digital fossils" is painfully accurate 😄, I am stealing that. The rediscover, nod, and close loop is the exact thing that made me want to build this. The idea was never the missing part, the doing was. What is one fossil you keep rediscovering? Asking for a friend who also has fifty of them.

Mine used to die in the Apple Notes graveyard, buried under "ideas to execute someday."

But as a copywriter, I realized notes don't die because we are lazy; they die because traditional apps act as passive storage, not active partners. Buddy AI Note fixes the product side of this beautifully by building that "bridge to action."

But here is a fun psychological twist for you, Maxence: While Buddy prevents notes from dying, how are you preventing your 30-day free trial users from dying? 😉 The gap between "signed up" and "actually converted to paid" is the ultimate graveyard for SaaS launches.

I've just sent you a connection request on LinkedIn () with a breakdown of a custom onboarding email sequence I mapped out for Buddy to fix this exact leak. Let’s connect there—would love to chat before your launch week ends!

 Ha, "the ultimate graveyard for SaaS launches" is a good line and a fair shot. You're right that signup to paid is its own gap, and yeah, we think about it. Funny enough it's the same principle: don't let the thing sit passively, nudge it toward the next step. Appreciate you taking the time to map something out. Heads down on launch week right now so I can't dive in properly, but I'll take a look. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.