NP-themes VS NotePlan_Themes

You can do this with themes. There is a theme modification so that anything you type between %% can be notes or comments about the task. When you leave the task it will "hide" the comments. The easiest thing to do is to download one of the user-created themes. I use jgclark, his toothpaste and tooth-bleach themes have the comment capability implemented. To learn how to customize themes watch this video.

https://noteplan.co is a very similar app. Unfortunately I couldn't use it because it was limited to iOS devices (a web version is in development).

- One thing missing in craftnote is search. That is a must-have feature for me.

- I also like being able to publicly share notes with a (short) URL. See https://simplenote.com for an example of how this is done.

Nice job with allowing your app to be usable without creating an account. That is one of the most common complaints on Show HN's.

Next on the list of things the HN community usually demands is a way to export/import notes (so their notes are not lost if/when you discontinue service.)

Also an observation I made recently is my internet search history is like a zero-effort journal that captures a surprisingly good picture of my life. You could make your service a front-end to search engines that also automatically logs a user's search queries.

I've been using Kagi for about a year and love it. Searching without ads, with a bunch of power-user features, and a thoughtful approach to AI, has been very nice. - https://kagi.com

I've also been enjoying NotePlan. I stumbled upon a system I like for managing my work in Obsidian at work using some plugins, and then found NotePlan is basically an app designed around the exact system I cobbled together, with some added quality of life improvements. My data is in plain text files, so that makes it future proof (to a degree), which I also like. - https://noteplan.co

Merry Sky is another. A spiritual successor to Dark Sky, since Apple bought it and shut it down. It's not as nice as Dark Sky was, but hopefully it gets there. It's nice for seeing the upcoming week of perception forecasted in one visual view. - https://merrysky.net

I tried obsidian but felt it had too many gears and knobs and spent too many times fiddling with them. I fell back on this app which is based on local markdown storage but takes it up a notch.

https://noteplan.co

The fact that everything is in plain text files on my computer is very important for me and future proofed.

Noteplan [1] has stuck for at least 3 years now. I like that in addition to old-school notes pages, each day has its own page. I capture notes and to-dos when I'm in meetings, and it has a separate view that will aggregate all your to-dos onto the same screen, no matter what day they appeared on. That might be available in many note-taking apps now, but when I converted to Noteplan, I couldn't find that feature anywhere. I really wanted something that combined to-dos and notes into the same software.

Note-taking apps are a really crowded space and there are die-hards in every camp. It sounds trite, but I'm convinced the best one is the one that sticks and that you actually use.

[1] https://noteplan.co/

NotePlan + Session

You might have a look at NotePlan.

I use https://noteplan.co/

It is a planner/note-taking app that connects to your calendar and you can drag and drop "tasks" onto certain days, create notes that link to certain meetings, and time-block your days well in advance.