Joonote
A note-taking app on your lock screen and notification panel
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I finally built this app after many years of being sick of unlocking my phone every goddamn time I need to take or view my notes. It particularly sucks when I'm doing my grocery and going down the list.I started building last year June. This is a native app written in Kotlin. And since I'm a 100% Web dev guy, I gotta say this wouldn't have been possible without this AI to assist me. So this isn't "vibe-coded". I simply used the chat interface in Gemini website, manually copy paste codes to build and integrate every single thing in the app! I used gemini to build it just because I was piggybacking on my last company's enterprise subscription. I personally didn't subscribe to any AI (and still don't cuz the free quota seems enough for me :)So I certainly have learnt alot about Android development, architecture patterns, Kotlin syntax, and obeying Google's whims. Can't say I love it all, but for the sake of this app, I will :)Anyway, I finally have the app I wish existed, and I'm using it everyday. It not only does the main thing I needed it to do, but there's also all this stuff:- Make your notes private if you don't want to show them on lock screen. - Create check/to-do lists. - Set one time or recurring reminders. - Full-text search your notes in the app. - Speech-to-text. - Organize your notes with custom or color labels. - Pin the app as a widget on your home screen. - You can auto backup and restore your notes on new install or Android device. - Works offline. - And no funny business happening in the background https://joonote.com/privacyIt's 30-day trial, then a one-time $9.99 to go Pro forever.I would love you all to check it out, FWIW.Ok thanks!
HN · launched Mar 21, 2026 · 54 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: note-taking and writing apps · 264 launches, 27 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a standard Android utility app that leverages native Android lock-screen notifications and widget APIs to display and edit simple local notes.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Orgzly - note-taking app, ButtonMaster - rapid access tool, FUTO Keyboard - speech-to-text, Syncthing - sync across devices, Obsidian - local markdown files
Concerns raised: App name phonetically resembles ethnic slur, Lockscreen notes redundant with biometric unlock, Limited value proposition vs existing tool combinations
Feature requests: Markdown support, KDE panel widget, Clipboard content display, Local markdown files instead of proprietary format
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 165 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 166 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 143 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in · hn · 2026-08-14 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I created my first mobile app, could use some support · hn · 2026-01-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Bloom · hn · 2026-10-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s · hn · 2025-12-08 · 177 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NoteWorthy · ph · 2026-10-06 · 115 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Ichinichi · hn · 2026-03-14 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- DailyNote · hn · 2026-01-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Smart Notes – AI Powered · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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