| I know everybody has their own note-taking system and there are better ways to do this, but: Whenever I need to make quick notes during a meeting, or paste some url / code / whatever to hold it, or paste formatted text to un-format it, I used to open TextEdit. It's the equivalent of taking a scrap piece of paper and jotting something down. These kinds of notes I don't want in any cloud, serious note-taking app or any code editor. But the burden of having 1 extra click on open (new document), and deciding what to do with old notes when closing (delete? save?) was too much. So I built my own notepad which behaves like a super simple textedit, but all notes are automatically saved to a predefined folder. - Opens with a new note when launched, or re-opened. - Notes can be auto-named by timestamp, numbered "Note N", custom prefix or by first line of text. - Hideable sidebar shows all notes. - Shortcuts can create, delete, switch between notes. Bonus points for pointing claude code to that folder to organize or work with all notes. Again: This is a custom app I made for myself, so probably it's not useful to anyone, but anyhow: https://tomreinert.de/en/verygoodnotepad/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/very-good-notepad/id6758906859 PS: This was built with the new Claude Code integration in xcode 26.3, worked quite well. |