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The story behind building my first app

About a month ago, I realized I was sick of losing all these random interesting ideas that pop into my head during the day and just straight up forget by evening.

I decided to find a mobile app that'd let me record my thoughts by voice and somehow structure them. Tried a bunch - Cleft, Whisper Memos, AudioPen, Voicenotes and so on.

Some couldn't figure out the note type from the content, others sucked at handling non-English voice, and in others u couldn't even understand the real value without buying a subscription.

That's how I came to the idea of building my own app. For me it's more than just notes, it's like an organizer at this point.

Really love making something that me and my family actually use!

So far I've implemented these features:

  • support for 99+ languages

  • Automatic note type detection

  • If it's a reminder note, it automatically adds an event to ur calendar. Pretty convenient to just say "meeting day after tomorrow at 11" and boom - u got a ready event with a reminder

  • For task notes, ability to add to Todoist

  • Daily Reminders - at the end of the day the app reminds u about notes u made today

  • Calendar where u can view notes by day or all at once by type

  • Web version for extended work with notes

  • Export as plain text or markdown

I also wanna add the ability to share links through Share Extension and build notes based on them - I do this a lot - but haven't figured it out yet.

Decided not to build the perfect product - a month of dev is already a lot for a launch - and gonna publish to the App Store.

This is my first publish, hope it goes well.

AI said I should drop a waitlist link here so yea here it is - https://neatminds.me/waitlist

on December 4, 2025
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    Love the "just ship it" approach ! The automatic calendar event creation from voice notes is really clever. I've been deep in calendar API land myself (building a Google ↔ Outlook sync tool) and can confirm — calendar APIs are a special kind of painful 😄 Good luck with the App Store launch!