Most journaling apps add friction right when you least want it. xotes opens straight to a text box, so you get the thought down before it slips away, no menus, no setup, no extra taps. Then it sorts each quote, idea, or observation into a simple library you can actually return to months later. And your words stay yours: never used to train AI, never sold, never rewritten. A calm, modern commonplace book.
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I'm Ethan, the solo founder of xotes.
I built this because I kept losing the thoughts I most wanted to keep. A line from a book, a half-formed idea, a song lyric late at night, all of it scattered across paper journals that fell apart and notes apps I could never search. Saving things was easy. Finding them again was impossible.
Then I learned about the commonplace book, the centuries-old habit of gathering everything worth keeping in one place, and realized that was the thing I'd been trying to build my whole life. So I made it. xotes opens straight to a text box, so you get the thought down before it slips away, then sorts each entry into a simple library you can actually return to months later.
One thing I care about deeply: your words stay yours. xotes never trains AI on your entries, never sells your data, and never rewrites you.
I'd love your honest feedback, especially from fellow journalers and note-takers: what's made past note apps fail to stick for you?
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love that it drops you right into a blank text field the second it opens, no menus or anything getting in the way when inspiration hits. and the promise that nothing is ever used to train AI feels really rare these days.
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@onurtekkoyunย Thank you! My goal was to remove as much friction from capturing something as possible. You dont want to loose the thought by the time you can actually write it down.
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the jump straight to a blank text box is such a smart call, every other journal app buries the actual writing behind two or three taps and the moment is gone by then.
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@azattomur36102ย Thank you for the feedback - removing the friction from capturing notes was one of my main objectives. I've gone into notes apps to capture something and lost the thought before I can even get to the page that lets me write more times than I can count.
love that it drops you right into a blank text field the second it opens, no menus or anything getting in the way when inspiration hits. and the promise that nothing is ever used to train AI feels really rare these days.
@onurtekkoyunย Thank you! My goal was to remove as much friction from capturing something as possible. You dont want to loose the thought by the time you can actually write it down.
the jump straight to a blank text box is such a smart call, every other journal app buries the actual writing behind two or three taps and the moment is gone by then.
@azattomur36102ย Thank you for the feedback - removing the friction from capturing notes was one of my main objectives. I've gone into notes apps to capture something and lost the thought before I can even get to the page that lets me write more times than I can count.