notes for the disorganized

hi. i'm vijay.

i've been working on a note-taking app called jottie. it's for people like me who like taking notes but dread organizing them.

the problem

i take a lot of notes. meetings, ideas, random thoughts, things i read, stuff i need to remember. my brain works by externalizing thoughts. if i don't write it down, it's gone.

but here's the thing: i hate organizing. folders? never use them. tags? start strong, abandon within a week. careful naming conventions? lol.

i've tried every note app. notion, obsidian, evernote, apple notes, google keep, roam, craft, bear, you name it. they're all great tools. but they all assume you're going to organize your notes.

i'm not. i'm going to dump text into a box and forget about it until i need it again.

the wish

what i actually wanted was simple: write notes, forget about them, find them later when i need them.

not by remembering what folder i put them in. not by guessing which tag i used. not by scrolling through hundreds of entries.

i wanted to search for "that thing about the fishing project from last year" and have it just... appear.

so i built it

jottie tags and organizes your notes for you. you write, it figures out what the note is about. people, places, topics, projects - all extracted automatically.

and the search is semantic. you can search for "pet" and find notes about dogs and cats. search for "meeting about launch" and find your notes about the q3 planning call.

you can also just talk to your notes. "what was that thing related to fishing i was working on some time last year?" - and it'll find it.

it's some of the most fun i've had building software

i'm not exaggerating. i've been using jottie for work and it's exactly what i needed. i take a lot of meeting notes, random ideas, project thoughts. and now i can actually find them.

last week i was trying to remember a conversation from months ago. searched for the person's name and the rough topic. found it in seconds. that feeling is hard to describe.

i built this for myself, but it turns out a lot of people have the same problem.

who this is for

if you're someone who has a meticulously organized notion setup with databases and relations and templates - jottie is probably not for you. you've already solved the organization problem.

but if you're like me - someone who has dozens of untitled notes scattered across three different apps - give jottie a try.

no folders to set up. no tagging system to design. no "second brain" methodology to learn.

just write notes. we'll handle the rest.

the pitch

jottie is notes for the disorganized. it's for people who have given up on organizing but haven't given up on taking notes.

write first, organize never, find later.

that's it. that's the whole thing.