Hi Product Hunters,
The last couple of months I have been working on And Notes - & - because I couldn't find a notes app that suits my needs. Today I am announcing the Beta Launch which is expected in August. If you are interested, I invite you to subscribe on the website. With this Beta launch I am hoping to get general feedback as to improve the 'real' launch.
It's my vision that my notes should be a representation of me. When I 'look' at them I want to think: "Ah yes, that's me!". I want to be able to see what is going on in my mind and life. & should be an app to capture anything, from thoughts to actions, while at the same time show me insights and the bigger picture.
How did I achieve this? With three core features:
Automated browsable structure because I really hate creating folders, but I like having them, I figured that tags can be used to determine an implied folder-like structure. This is always up to date and gives you a drill down that you might not have thought of before.
Insights At some point you will end up with a bunch of notes. & delivers several insights that are just a swipe away from your list of notes. This allows you to get insights at any cross section and continue to drill down to discover interesting things. Having such insights also gives you more of a feeling of being in control of your notes.
A tag network This allows you to look at a more global and zoomed out view of your notes. It's both fun, insightful and practical. Insightful because you can identify clusters and practical because it gives you different way of drilling through your notes.
And there are many more features, like the actionable and repeatable notes, all described on the website. For me, & has become an indispensable app in my life. I hope you'll enjoy it as well.
Update 11/07/'22: I just wrote this article on Medium about &. I believe it gives a better understanding on what it is and why I created it.
Update 21/11/'22: And Notes - & - is now available in the App Store, press here to download.
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Good one. Congrats! Please check the text color on the landing page, it gets blended with the background color.
I need this app in my life. Everything that's missing and everything I didn't know was even possible to achieve with notion, this app does it. Hopefully I get in the beta ASAP :D
@mshah That’s a valid question. I think it's not necessarily there to 'beat' Obsidian, it’s different, and it therefore depends on what you are looking for. If your question is ‘how is And Notes different?’, then I’d like to mainly point out: And Notes is build around the automated folder-like structure and the insight. These two (combined) solve many use cases I have been struggling with in the past (some of which highlighted on the website).
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- Automated browsable structure because I really hate creating folders, but I like having them, I figured that tags can be used to determine an implied folder-like structure. This is always up to date and gives you a drill down that you might not have thought of before.
- Insights At some point you will end up with a bunch of notes. & delivers several insights that are just a swipe away from your list of notes. This allows you to get insights at any cross section and continue to drill down to discover interesting things. Having such insights also gives you more of a feeling of being in control of your notes.
- A tag network This allows you to look at a more global and zoomed out view of your notes. It's both fun, insightful and practical. Insightful because you can identify clusters and practical because it gives you different way of drilling through your notes.
And there are many more features, like the actionable and repeatable notes, all described on the website. For me, & has become an indispensable app in my life. I hope you'll enjoy it as well. Update 11/07/'22: I just wrote this article on Medium about &. I believe it gives a better understanding on what it is and why I created it. Update 21/11/'22: And Notes - & - is now available in the App Store, press here to download.And Notes
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