Notejoy is a collaborative notes app for you and your team. It helps you get your most important work out of the noise of email & Slack and into a fast and focused workspace.
I’ve had a general feeling google docs/paper/quip is missing big gaps for a while so excited to see a competitor.
Any plans for creating templates for documents? Something very lacking elsewhere 😭😭
P.s. I love the release notes. Fascinating to see your progress from February 2016 till now 🙌
@jason_crabtree_ Thanks and glad you like the release notes! :)
For templates, we have a lightweight solution -- you can right-click and duplicate a note in Notejoy. So what some teams do is pin a template note to the top of a notebook, and then ask team members to duplicate & edit from there. We definitely want to take this further, what would you like to see? We're all ears.
@adachen pinning is a good solution (I like the description of lightweight solution) but still somewhat of a workaround.
A few features I’d like to see:
- support for templates (that aren’t copy based, which admittedly does the job but requires more shuffling/renaming/making sure you copy the same blank template)
- support for templates for entire folders (e.g this is a new project, generate a folder with x y and z documents. Similar to new GitHub repos)
- support for in doc snippets (similar to autocomplete programming). I’m imagining something like:
type //userstory and get a blank user story
type //problemstatement and get a blank templates problem statement
type //customerinterview and get a barebones document to help structure and plan customer interviews
A lot of this can be manually done/achieved with copy and pasting. But who wants to copy and paste everything 🤷♂️🤷♀️
Hey Product Hunt! Sachin, co-founder of Notejoy here. First off, huge thanks to @hnshah for hunting us!
Notejoy is a real-time document collaboration tool that's built to be a better way to organize your team docs.
What inspired us to build Notejoy is the pain of team collaboration. We hear all the time from teams big and small, "Can you send me the link to this doc?" "Can you give me permissions?" "Why isn't this up to date?" The reality is that tools today aren't making it easy to get on the same page to discuss our ideas, and making it near-impossible to search for past work when we need it.
Notejoy is taking this on, and we're different in a few key ways:
1- Search is way faster. Compared to Google Docs' experience of slooowly loading multiple tabs, Notejoy's snippets and fast load gets you what you need.
2- Sharing is radically simple. In Notejoy, you make a team library and invite people into it. Once they're in, everyone sees the same content in sync across all their devices. No more permission hell.
3- Fast, light-weight editing. A lot of things don't get written down because it's too short to deserve a full-length document or it's a pain to format. Notejoy's editor is beautiful and light-weight, so you can capture a few bullets or a full proposal.
We'd love to hear your feedback here in the comments, via the app feedback button, or @sachinrekhi on Twitter.
Sachin
p.s. a few pro tips:
- Don't forget to download the Mac, Windows, or iOS apps. Android coming soon!
- Type '?' in the app to reach our power-user keyboard shortcuts
- You can create a team library with any group of people, doesn't have to be in your same domain or company
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@hnshah@sachinrekhi I'm curious what you think are the advantages of using it over a product like quip?
Hey PH,
Ada here, co-founder of Notejoy. @sachinrekhi and I started Notejoy because we're both passionate about productivity and power-users of many productivity tools out there. We saw a real gap in today's team productivity tools however with how often document links get lost and how challenging it is to keep them up to date.
As we built Notejoy, we built for teams in mind. However, the first bar we wanted to clear was nailing it on personal productivity.
We spent the first year just getting Notejoy to the point where it's fast, reliable, and a joy to use. We built in keyboard shortcuts for speed. We brought Notejoy to iOS, Mac, and Window so we could use it everywhere. We made search fast and usable, and tracked the load time down to the milliseconds. We cleaned up copy-paste into the document, fixing all the annoyances of reformatting pasted text. As the product came together, I had a hundred-bullet list for Sachin of all of the annoyances and pet peeves that I encountered day-to-day in my personal productivity.
As we cleared that bar, we focused on team scenarios next, taking in feedback from our hundreds of beta users and our personal experiences with teams big and small. What happens when the number of docs balloons and many people come and go in an organization? Notejoy is built for helping teams capture, organize, and find information in those scenarios. We built in reactions, threaded discussions, and note views to speed up the pace of collaboration. We introduced the ability to Archive notes as a first class citizen, so you can mark something as old and lock it from edits without doing what many teams do, writing 'Do not use' or 'Old' in the title. Notejoy even integrates with Slack, bringing updates and notifications directly into your workflow. The list goes on.
We built Notejoy to try to solve all of our biggest productivity pet peeves. And as we continue to develop the product, we'd love to hear yours! What are your biggest pet peeves in productivity & team collaboration? Please let us know your thoughts and feedback!
Ada
Congrats on the 🚀 @sachinrekhi and @adachen! Document collaboration could always be better as it has such a big impact on how team's communicate (especially distributed teams like ours).
How does Notejoy differ from Google Docs, Quip, and others?
Thanks for checking out Notejoy, @rrhoover! 👍
Notejoy is different from Google Docs and Quip primarily in our approach to organizing and finding your team's docs. While other products tend to focus on improving the document editor itself (which we have spent time on), we think the workflow of sharing / collaborating / finding hasn't seen a lot of innovation.
1- We have a concept of team libraries in Notejoy, which is like the file folder 2.0. They work like Slack channels where you can invite in team members and they can collaborate in real time to discuss, manage, organize content. From our beta, we've seen this is pretty game changing for teams to be able to do things like see who's viewed what, post reactions, have threaded discussions, and pin notes.
2- Search is way improved. A common complaint is that you can never find anything because search in Google Docs is pretty broken. We improved note search in both UX and speed, which makes a huge impact on how people use the product as a way to store things they don't want to forget later
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Great to work - as long as you are online. A short look in your Notes during a flight? Impossible.
To work from the Office together with my Team- great!
Pros:
A really good Alternative to Evernote
Cons:
Needs always Internet-Connection, no offline-mode
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@sebastian_eisenbuerger a year later and there's still no offline mode :-/ . Their site says it's still on the roadmap for a future release, but no actual timeline for that has been released to the public.
Notejoy is one of the best products this year, and I’ve come to rely on it every day. With its focus on collaborative note taking, it’s become indispensable for working with others to draft essays, write important emails, take down meeting agendas, etc. I use the iOS app to write notes on the go, and the desktop app to go deeper on ideas when I am at my desk. It all instantly, seamlessly works, which is amazing.
Over the years, I’ve used Evernote and google docs for the same kinds of tasks but find them lacking. Evernote has become slow and clunky, and it’s hard to work on notes together. Google docs is great for larger, longer docs, but it’s too heavyweight to use for a quick couple bullets or two, when I’m on the go. Plus each doc has to be shared on individually, which is a pain.
The notejoy team has done a great job putting it all together. 5 stars.
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@andrewchen Google TeamDrive solves the problem with individual sharing
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Notejoy has been transformative for our company. Prior to Notejoy, our internal company knowledge was scattered everywhere- stuck in Slack message pergatory, Google Docs, random emails, and an outdated corporate wiki. Almost overnight, Notejoy helped us completely transform how we managed our employee onboarding, training, day-to-day operations, document sharing, and process documentation. We are now more transparent than ever internally, since Notejoy helps each employee have access to all of the company's knowledgebase easily. It has empowered our individual team members, it also has made me feel more confident as a founder that our company's valuable intellectual property and proprietary knowledge is being accumulated in a centralized place. I say this without any exaggeration- Notejoy has positively impacted the way we run our entire business. I was skeptical initially as well- isn't this an unnecessary substitute for a combination of using Google Docs, internal wikis, and Slack? Trust me, it's so much more than that. You owe it to your company to try it out. Every single person on our team, whether individual contributor or manager, has found Notejoy to be pretty gamechanging.
Pros:
Ease of use, speed of rolling out to entire team, impactfulness on productivity and transparency
Cons:
In-app messaging and permissions across users could be improved.
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Great to work - as long as you are online. A short look in your Notes during a flight? Impossible.
To work from the Office together with my Team- great!
Pros:A really good Alternative to Evernote
Cons:Needs always Internet-Connection, no offline-mode
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Notejoy has been transformative for our company. Prior to Notejoy, our internal company knowledge was scattered everywhere- stuck in Slack message pergatory, Google Docs, random emails, and an outdated corporate wiki. Almost overnight, Notejoy helped us completely transform how we managed our employee onboarding, training, day-to-day operations, document sharing, and process documentation. We are now more transparent than ever internally, since Notejoy helps each employee have access to all of the company's knowledgebase easily. It has empowered our individual team members, it also has made me feel more confident as a founder that our company's valuable intellectual property and proprietary knowledge is being accumulated in a centralized place. I say this without any exaggeration- Notejoy has positively impacted the way we run our entire business. I was skeptical initially as well- isn't this an unnecessary substitute for a combination of using Google Docs, internal wikis, and Slack? Trust me, it's so much more than that. You owe it to your company to try it out. Every single person on our team, whether individual contributor or manager, has found Notejoy to be pretty gamechanging.
Pros:Ease of use, speed of rolling out to entire team, impactfulness on productivity and transparency
Cons:In-app messaging and permissions across users could be improved.