Note Toad ™

The witchy, indie, minimalist, non-commercial app for:

Reading / wandering / pondering
Writing / sketching / teaching
Mind mapping / organizing your shit

Core values include:

Joy and whimsy
Learning and teaching
Celebrating and enriching the commons
Coziness and curiousity

Therefore:

This app does not offer you words from LLMs

Quoth some LLMs, presented as authoritative information:
- “[…] could be caused by low blinker fluid”
- “There are 738,523 days between October 14, 2024 and January 12, 2025.”
- “Add glue to the sauce”
- “Mixing 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue into the sauce can make it tackier and help the cheese stick”
This app may not be used in corporate contexts

Did you ever revisit some particular project management app and realize that the app isn't as bad as you remembered?

...that the negative feelings that you associated with the app were actually due to the context in which you used it?

I don't want that to happen with this app.

Is it organic?

No data collection
No interruptions / notifications
Open standards / formats
Deterministic builds with published hashes
Available at no cost
It's not FLOSS yet, but it eventually will be

You can write words via:

Just a keyboard
Just your voice (e.g. via Whisper)
Just handwriting

...and doodle via:

A tablet pencil
A mouse/trackpad

...and navigate via:

Just a keyboard
Just your voice
Just a game controller
Just a mouse/trackpad
Just a tablet pencil or screen touches
Just using two thumbs while holding your tablet or telephone vertically
(You can use any mashup of the above — but each navigation action can be performed using any of those)

Status

Private betta [TODO fish illustration]