Show HN: Joonote – A note-taking app on your lock screen and notification panel(joonote.com)
53 points by kilgarenone 1 day ago | 42 comments
- skeledrew 3 hours agoHmm I've never thought of having notes available on my lockscreen. Hardly even ever see it because face+fingerprint unlock combo.
I've been using Orgzly[0] as my note taker (and a lot more) and ButtonMaster[1] for rapid access. Unlock phone, swipe the floating BM button left, type my note (and maybe add properties, keywords and more) and hit save. Just now realizing too that it also supports creating notes via its notification. Never thought of using STT, but I have FUTO Keyboard[2] so that's also handled. And Syncthing[3] keeps it all synced with my laptop. All working together seamlessly for years.
[0] https://orgzlyrevived.com/ [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mozapps.bu... [2] https://keyboard.futo.org/ [3] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...
- comrade1234 1 day agoI don't think you should name it that...[-]
- kilgarenone 23 hours agoyeah damn it. I don't want to say it, but I know it sounds like that lol
- anotherpaulg 21 hours agoI appreciate the ability to rapidly capture a note/thought/todo without friction and context switching.
I solved this problem with a twilio sms number. When I send a text to it, the content gets prepended to my obsidian todo.md file. This was easy to arrange with a few lines of Python glue.
iOS makes it easy to text or share to sms from almost any context.
- written-beyond 1 day agoMy god it's the perfect app.
I've never said YES BUY immediately after reading a title before but this is it.
My phone frequently gets cluttered with tens of different note taking, calendar, Todo type apps because I am literally trying to solve this exact problem.
When I need to make a note I need something instant and now, but which lets me set an alarm/reminder with it too. I am a forgetful person, I find it extremely difficult to remember which notes app I am using because I usually drop them because they're never really solving my problem.
Thank you for this. I am going to install it and try it out over the week, if it's experience lives up to your description/screenshots then you have an immediate customer.
[-]- kilgarenone 23 hours agoI just woke up, and this made my day! Thanks! Feel free to reach out to me about whatever :)
- kilgarenone 18 hours agoAlright everyone, I have updated the website to show the phonetic notation below the app name in the header to roughly convey what I intended it to sound like: /ˈzhooːnoʊt/
Didn't mean to be insensitive or anything here. I apologize if I offended anyone here.
- amadeuspagel 10 hours agoCool idea. I've been looking for a notes widget for the KDE panel, so I don't forget what I was doing when I open a different program. Maybe even showing the content of the clipboard would be enough.
- graypegg 23 hours agoI was reading it as "joon note" originally! I only realized I was misreading it when coming back to the comments. If you wanted to change up the name, maybe "June Note"? It has a nice ring to it IMO, and doesn't stray too far from your original name. Nature-y too, which seems to be a bit of a theme.
Really nice job on the app though! I think written-beyond's comment says more than enough: you've made what should be a default feature, that no one had thought to make.
[-]- kilgarenone 23 hours agolol, yeah...about the name..I think it's too late to change it now? Didn't realize it sounded a certain way until much later.. I wanted it to be "Zuunote"(like zoo-note but domain taken) but it was already taken by my other project, so "Joonote" sounded closest to it to my mind at the time...yeah crap haha
- dmd 1 day agoFunny, it doesn’t look jooish[-]
- kilgarenone 23 hours agouh no idea what jooish would look like..[-]
- arikrahman 1 day agoMythical Show HN pull
- vincentabolarin 21 hours agoThis is a very useful feature as an app.
It will definitely come in handy when it is much needed.
The video walk-through is solid.
It seems like a genuinely good app which does what it says it does.
Great job!
- ifh-hn 21 hours agoAs a native English speaker who had to Google joonish to see what people were talking about, what is the big issue with the name?[-]
- hermanzegerman 18 hours agoThey think it sounds too similar to jew.
But I don't know why that would be offensive in that context
[-]- ifh-hn 14 hours agoI actually despair sometimes.
- lucasay 1 day agoCool idea, lock screen notes actually solve a real annoyance. But yeah, you might want to rethink the name—it’s likely to turn people off before they even try it.
- politelemon 1 day agoGreat demo video as well, I appreciated that it didn't waste time. I'll echo the comments here though, the name doesn't sit well with some audiences.[-]
- kilgarenone 23 hours agoya I'm totally open to change it, but do you think its too late now?[-]
- sam345 19 hours agoNot too late. Just change it.
- ashwinnair99 1 day agoSimple idea, right surface. Lock screen is the most underused real estate on a phone. Curious how you handle the note limit before it gets cluttered.[-]
- kilgarenone 22 hours agoYou can turn on the "Combine Notifications" setting in the Settings page. This will have the individual notifications live under a single so-called summary notication.
- __turbobrew__ 1 day agoThat is a poor choice of naming. Sounds like JewNote.[-]
- --_-- 1 day agoI was going to say that too. Perhaps it came from a non-native English speaker. Please change it.
I like the idea, if it's actually safe and you can't use this to get into your phone through some tricky means like a buffer overrun.
[-]- rjtavares 1 day agoAs a non native speaker, it never crossed my mind and I was quite confused at the first comments...
- kilgarenone 23 hours agoya...totally didn't occur to me. Probably would've been obvious to me if English was my first language..
- bryanhogan 22 hours agoAny plans on possibly making the notes be local markdown files similar to how Obsidian does it?[-]
- kilgarenone 13 hours agoYeah I will add Markdown support. Added to the roadmap :)
- SachitRafa 12 hours agoThe name could have been better
- anonym29 1 day agoI believe the politically correct phrasing would be Jooishnote.
- analognoise 1 day agoFirst they controlled Hollywood.
Then they controlled all of Politics.
Then they controlled when we went to war.
Now you want them to control your notes???
/s but “Joo” is filterspeak for “Jews”. Sounds antisemitic as fuck.
[-]- mireofthedeep 1 day agoJoo is also Finnish for "yes" or "yep", name sounds like "yes-note".[-]
- Vaslo 1 day agoYou are totally right but the name may still be an unfortunate choice for native English speakers[-]
- kilgarenone 22 hours agoI'm not a native english speaker. Totally didn't occur to me. My tongue somehow rolled like "zoo-note" to my mind at the time lol[-]
- ifh-hn 21 hours agoI am a native English speaker and it has taken me reading all these comments about the name and a Google search to figure out people are equating joo with Jew. I still don't get what the issue is...[-]
- nozzlegear 20 hours agoI'm a native English speaker and it's the literal first thing I thought of when I read the name.
> I still don't get what the issue is...
The word "jew" (as a verb) has roots in stereotypes about Jewish people and money; it's an ethnic slur. The word "jew" (instead of "a Jew" or "Jewish") is a dismissive insult. The word itself isn't inherently offensive, but it's often weaponized in English, which is why it has a lot of historical baggage that makes people very wary when they see it.
[-]- ifh-hn 14 hours agoThanks. After searching I thought it might be that but wasn't sure because it seemed so ridiculous.
It certainly wasn't my goto when I read it, but the fact it was for some people might suggest the developer should change it, if only for the fact that it might put off potential customers.
What a weird world we live in.
[-]- kilgarenone 13 hours agoYeah I might just have to change it and embrace the repercussion from that...
- kilgarenone 23 hours agooh man, I swear it had nothing to do with Jews lol. But now i know how it sounds like. Sorry! love you all.
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