[HN Gopher] Show HN: Joonote - A note-taking app on your lock sc...
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Show HN: Joonote - A note-taking app on your lock screen and
notification panel
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/privacy It'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!
Author : kilgarenone
Score : 32 points
Date : 2026-03-21 15:02 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (joonote.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (joonote.com)
| analognoise wrote:
| First they controlled Hollywood.
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| Then they controlled all of Politics.
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| Then they controlled when we went to war.
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| Now you want them to control your notes???
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| /s but "Joo" is filterspeak for "Jews". Sounds antisemitic as
| fuck.
| mireofthedeep wrote:
| Joo is also Finnish for "yes" or "yep", name sounds like "yes-
| note".
| Vaslo wrote:
| You are totally right but the name may still be an
| unfortunate choice for native English speakers
| kilgarenone wrote:
| I'm not a native english speaker. Totally didn't occur to
| me. My tongue somehow rolled like "zoo-note" to my mind at
| the time lol
| kilgarenone wrote:
| oh man, I swear it had nothing to do with Jews lol. But now i
| know how it sounds like. Sorry! love you all.
| __turbobrew__ wrote:
| That is a poor choice of naming. Sounds like JewNote.
| --_-- wrote:
| I was going to say that too. Perhaps it came from a non-native
| English speaker. Please change it.
|
| I like the idea, if it's actually safe and you can't use this
| to get into your phone through some tricky means like a buffer
| overrun.
| rjtavares wrote:
| As a non native speaker, it never crossed my mind and I was
| quite confused at the first comments...
| kilgarenone wrote:
| ya...totally didn't occur to me. Probably would've been obvious
| to me if English was my first language..
| ashwinnair99 wrote:
| Simple idea, right surface. Lock screen is the most underused
| real estate on a phone. Curious how you handle the note limit
| before it gets cluttered.
| kilgarenone wrote:
| You can turn on the "Combine Notifications" setting in the
| Settings page. This will have the individual notifications live
| under a single so-called summary notication.
| politelemon wrote:
| Great demo video as well, I appreciated that it didn't waste
| time. I'll echo the comments here though, the name doesn't sit
| well with some audiences.
| kilgarenone wrote:
| ya I'm totally open to change it, but do you think its too late
| now?
| comrade1234 wrote:
| I don't think you should name it that...
| kilgarenone wrote:
| yeah damn it. I don't want to say it, but I know it sounds like
| _that_ lol
| lucasay wrote:
| Cool idea, lock screen notes actually solve a real annoyance. But
| yeah, you might want to rethink the name--it's likely to turn
| people off before they even try it.
| arikrahman wrote:
| Mythical Show HN pull
| anonym29 wrote:
| I believe the politically correct phrasing would be Jooishnote.
| written-beyond wrote:
| My god it's the perfect app.
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| I've never said YES BUY immediately after reading a title before
| but this is it.
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| My phone frequently gets cluttered with tens of different note
| taking, calendar, Todo type apps because I am literally trying to
| solve this exact problem.
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| When I need to make a note I need something instant and now, but
| which lets me set an alarm/reminder with it too. I am a forgetful
| person, I find it extremely difficult to remember which notes app
| I am using because I usually drop them because they're never
| really solving my problem.
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| Thank you for this. I am going to install it and try it out over
| the week, if it's experience lives up to your
| description/screenshots then you have an immediate customer.
| kilgarenone wrote:
| I just woke up, and this made my day! Thanks! Feel free to
| reach out to me about whatever :)
| dmd wrote:
| Funny, it doesn't look jooish
| kilgarenone wrote:
| uh no idea what jooish would look like..
| dmd wrote:
| https://www.google.com/search?q=funny+you+don%27t+look+jewis.
| ..
| kilgarenone wrote:
| ah TIL...
| graypegg wrote:
| I was reading it as "joon note" originally! I only realized I was
| misreading it when coming back to the comments. If you wanted to
| change up the name, maybe "June Note"? It has a nice ring to it
| IMO, and doesn't stray too far from your original name. Nature-y
| too, which seems to be a bit of a theme.
|
| Really nice job on the app though! I think written-beyond's
| comment says more than enough: you've made what should be a
| default feature, that no one had thought to make.
| kilgarenone wrote:
| lol, yeah...about the name..I think it's too late to change it
| now? Didn't realize it sounded a certain way until much later..
| I wanted it to be "Zuunote"(like zoo-note but domain taken) but
| it was already taken by my other project, so "Joonote" sounded
| closest to it to my mind at the time...yeah crap haha
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