UTILITIES
Vibe coding a custom note-taking app
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Apple Notes crashes and loses things. Notion is good for organized reference stuff, not for the quick thought you want to get out of your head at 11pm. iA Writer and Obsidian are both lovely and both more app than she needed — they're built around files and folders and workflows, and sometimes you just want to open something and type.
She'd tried everything.
The app she described to me didn't exist, or at least not in the combination she wanted: fast to open, saves automatically, minimal interface, and feels like a native desktop tool rather than a website in a window. She referenced Numi — a calculator app...
My first reaction was: that's a specific thing to want. But the specificity is what made the project workable. Vague needs make for vague software.