Current Card
I built a reminder app that doesn’t send notifications
A little over a year ago, I left my job at a big tech company after ten years in tech. I was burned out and didn’t have another job lined up.
During that time, my memory became unreliable. I’d forget small intentions: visiting a bookshop, or bringing something up the next time I saw a friend.
I wanted to remember these things, but I found notification sounds and complicated to-do lists overwhelming.
That became the starting point for Current Card.
The app keeps one active card in a place you choose, such as your Home Screen, Lock Screen or StandBy. Seeing it again is the reminder. It doesn’t send notifications.
Keeping it to one card was a deliberate choice. I wanted to avoid turning it into another list to manage. I also called the exit action “Let go,” because no longer needing a thought in view doesn’t always mean you completed a task.
I recently shared Current Card on V2EX and gave away some Pro codes. That brought in downloads. I don’t yet know how many of those people will keep using it, or which situations it will become useful for.
That’s the part I’m trying to understand now: whether this little gap in my own life is a gap other people recognize too.
If you’ve built a deliberately small app, I’d like to hear how you found the people it was right for.
App Store： https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794661378
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The download volume is still too small for me to identify a truly sticky use case yet, so the sample size isn’t large enough to draw strong conclusions.
But based on some early feedback, people seem to use the card less for typical “tasks” and more for things they genuinely want to remember — especially things that make life feel a little better. For example, reminding themselves to have a drink after work, or to call parents they haven’t seen in a while.
Since the card stays visible, people seem to prefer putting things there that they actually look forward to, or things they’d really regret forgetting.
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