Do we need an phone app?
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An phone app with sync'ed notes could be convenient, but we then lose the co-edit feature on the phone. It's more a quick notes. Eventually we can setup co-edit with the agent on the cloud. So phone can also enjoy the co-edit. Currently leave a todo for the agent on phone is definitely do-able.
Any thoughts?
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Mobile dev here, so the first thing I would flag is cost rather than feature. A phone app is not something you add, it is a second product you maintain forever. Its own release cycle, store review on every fix, an OS upgrade breaking something once a year, and a bug surface that does not overlap with the web one. For a small team that is usually the actual decision, not whether people would use it.
Which is why I would reframe the question. Not do we need a phone app, but what job does the phone do that the desktop cannot. For notes the honest answer is capture, not editing. Almost nobody writes a document on a phone. They catch a thought while standing somewhere and want it to exist before it is gone.
If capture is the job, you may not need an app at all. Your files are markdown. A synced folder plus the share sheet already gets someone most of the way, and any notes app on the phone can write into it. Shipping an app to compete with the operating system's own share sheet is a hard fight over something people already have.
That also makes the co-edit worry smaller than it looks. Nobody wants an agent rewriting a document while they are standing on a train. Losing co-edit on mobile is not really a gap if mobile was never the place for it.
The version I would want is the one you already described. Capture on the phone, leave the todo, agent acts on it, you review on desktop. That is a real workflow and it does not need a full editor to work.
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@abdullah_javaid3 Appreciate your practical and honest inputs. I totally agree that "it's a second product" of its own.
The fast notetaking feature is the center mass. Writing long docs on phone is definitely out of the scope. Another use case is to view notes written in the desktop app. Along the line of your suggestion, if the notes is stored in iCould, then any phone app should be able to view the .md files.
Your advice really steered our forward direction. The app becomes the "edge command center". Many thanks!
@xueyanzhang Glad it was useful.
One thing to settle early if iCloud is the sync layer. Viewing is close to free, since a markdown file in iCloud Drive already opens in Files on any iPhone. Writing is the hard part. If the agent edits a note on the desktop while someone captures into the same file from a phone that has been offline, iCloud does not merge. It picks a winner and leaves a conflicted copy nobody notices, so the thought just vanishes.
Cheapest way around it is to never let the phone write into an existing note. Capture appends a new timestamped file, and the agent merges it later.
Is the agent on the desktop or in the cloud? That decides whether the phone can be a pure appender or has to hold a queue.
I think a phone app makes sense if it’s focused on capture, not trying to recreate the entire desktop experience. Quick notes + sync would already be very useful.
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@mark_wood37 Thank you Mark. That's what I am wondering too. Mobile app as a simple viewport make the notes more accessible. Appreciate your support~
I see real value in leaving tasks for the agent from a phone because that fits short mobile sessions. What feedback have early users shared about their biggest frustration with note management today?
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@mikkel_banner Indeed, leaving a todo task for the agent from a phone would be big PLUS to the workflow. We are looking for the best approach for this actually. An encrypted sync feature seems to be a necessary preceeding feature before this.