21 comments

  • written-beyond 18 hours ago
    My 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 16 hours ago
      I just woke up, and this made my day! Thanks! Feel free to reach out to me about whatever :)
  • comrade1234 19 hours ago
    I don't think you should name it that...
    • kilgarenone 16 hours ago
      yeah damn it. I don't want to say it, but I know it sounds like that lol
  • anotherpaulg 14 hours ago
    I 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.

  • amadeuspagel 3 hours ago
    Cool 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.
  • kilgarenone 11 hours ago
    Alright 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.

  • graypegg 16 hours ago
    I 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 16 hours ago
      lol, 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 17 hours ago
    Funny, it doesn’t look jooish
  • arikrahman 18 hours ago
    Mythical Show HN pull
  • vincentabolarin 14 hours ago
    This 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!

  • SachitRafa 5 hours ago
    The name could have been better
  • ifh-hn 14 hours ago
    As 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 11 hours ago
      They think it sounds too similar to jew.

      But I don't know why that would be offensive in that context

      • ifh-hn 7 hours ago
        I actually despair sometimes.
  • lucasay 18 hours ago
    Cool 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 19 hours ago
    Great 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 16 hours ago
      ya I'm totally open to change it, but do you think its too late now?
      • sam345 12 hours ago
        Not too late. Just change it.
  • ashwinnair99 19 hours ago
    Simple 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 16 hours ago
      You 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__ 19 hours ago
    That is a poor choice of naming. Sounds like JewNote.
    • --_-- 19 hours ago
      I 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 19 hours ago
        As a non native speaker, it never crossed my mind and I was quite confused at the first comments...
    • kilgarenone 16 hours ago
      ya...totally didn't occur to me. Probably would've been obvious to me if English was my first language..
  • bryanhogan 15 hours ago
    Any plans on possibly making the notes be local markdown files similar to how Obsidian does it?
    • kilgarenone 6 hours ago
      Yeah I will add Markdown support. Added to the roadmap :)
  • anonym29 18 hours ago
    I believe the politically correct phrasing would be Jooishnote.
  • analognoise 19 hours ago
    First 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 19 hours ago
      Joo is also Finnish for "yes" or "yep", name sounds like "yes-note".
      • Vaslo 19 hours ago
        You are totally right but the name may still be an unfortunate choice for native English speakers
        • kilgarenone 15 hours ago
          I'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 15 hours ago
            I 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 13 hours ago
              I'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 7 hours ago
                Thanks. 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 6 hours ago
                  Yeah I might just have to change it and embrace the repercussion from that...
    • kilgarenone 16 hours ago
      oh 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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