Hi Product Hunt,

I'm Hideyuki. I run a small company on Amami Oshima, an island about 380 km south of mainland Japan, and I build apps there, mostly on my own.

MEMOROLL started from a simple annoyance: by the time a notes app is ready for me to type, the thought is often gone. So the app opens with the cursor already in the box. No "new note" button, no titles, no folders. Each note gets the time and, if you allow it, the place, so you can look back by day, in a calendar or on a map.

Version 2.1 came out of a trip. I was shooting on a small island nearby and MEMOROLL worked well out there. But back at my Mac, looking over those notes meant retyping or forwarding them, and I thought: this is no better than paper. So now:

MEMOROLL runs on iPad and Mac, with the timeline on the left and the calendar and the day's map on the right. Writing stays on the iPhone; looking back gets the big screen.
On the Mac, Control-Option-M opens a small writing window from any app, and Handoff lets you finish on the Mac a note you started on the iPhone.
Sync goes only through your own iCloud. There's no account and no server of mine. It's your choice, and it stays off until you turn it on.

In September I wrote about why MEMOROLL had no sync. Here's why it has it now, and why I don't think that's a contradiction:

https://resdev.jp/en/notes/why-sync-now/

Free, no ads, no tracking, no in-app purchases. The icon is a natural sign (♮), the symbol that returns a note to its own pitch.

I'd love to hear how you capture quick thoughts today, and what would make you switch. I'll be here answering through the day.