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Agree. I made this realization when at the end of every month I needed to submit my daily work log along with my client invoices I would cobble together notes s

Agree. I made this realization when at the end of every month I needed to submit my daily work log along with my client invoices I would cobble together notes scattered in different apps, conversations, notebooks, etc. I ended up building an app that would text myself (at the same time every day) a reminder to log what I had done for the day. After a while I didn't need the reminder, I would open up my phone a few minutes before the text would come through, jot down a few things and done. I ended up releasing the note-taking/reminder app as a subscription service [0], for reasons most obvious. Over time I wanted more from these notes... I wanted a way to separate notes of different clients -- folders. I wanted a way to categorize all notes related to different topics of interest -- tags. I wanted an email to send me a summary of notes in a folder to submit my invoice or produce a weekend reading list -- email summaries. I wanted to do all my bookkeeping in my notes, and on.. I ended up releasing the parser for the notes as an open source lib [1]. Which could add a nice layer on top of any plain-text note system running locally. 0. https://www.tatatap.com https://www.tatatap.com 1. https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat

anonymouse008 5y ago
This is quite a nice platform -- I was looking into the SMS space recently as well and thought a similar UI (using SMS to get notifications around) would work. I'm curious, do many people use the SMS note save feature? Or is many people the wrong unit of measure for an SMS service? (I've wondered if users would have a reversion to things like this as well...)
- joe8756438 5y ago
  SMS has been a surprising key to success. I think because messaging is such a routine, having the note-taking ability embedded creates more surface area between the note-taker and the thing that saves the notes. The named contact that shows up in your recent messages or the share menu listing recent contacts are areas you might trigger the impulse to save something.
teitoklien 5y ago
This is such a nice platform, why dont you do a ShowHN for this ? It's super cool. Edit: Just saw now, you've submitted this on showHN before, maybe tweak the timing for the post and the title for better results ?

anonymouse008 5y ago

This is quite a nice platform -- I was looking into the SMS space recently as well and thought a similar UI (using SMS to get notifications around) would work. I'm curious, do many people use the SMS note save feature? Or is many people the wrong unit of measure for an SMS service? (I've wondered if users would have a reversion to things like this as well...)

joe8756438 5y ago
SMS has been a surprising key to success. I think because messaging is such a routine, having the note-taking ability embedded creates more surface area between the note-taker and the thing that saves the notes. The named contact that shows up in your recent messages or the share menu listing recent contacts are areas you might trigger the impulse to save something.

teitoklien 5y ago

This is such a nice platform, why dont you do a ShowHN for this ? It's super cool. Edit: Just saw now, you've submitted this on showHN before, maybe tweak the timing for the post and the title for better results ?