Notebook - Diary & Journal App

Koji Ito · 4.73★ · 14,322 install proxy

consumer-chosen

Evidence

23.0% of all ratings are 1–2★ (unhappiness index 25/100)

What to build

Cut time-to-first-value to under a minute with opinionated defaults.

Complaint themes

• Onboarding barrier

  Users churn before reaching the value moment; better onboarding lifts retention.

  Disappointing and needs improvement

  deleted all my notes

• Missing capability

  Explicit feature asks — the closest thing to free product requirements.

  It’s just an ad.

  All my notes are gone.

• Performance

  Perceived performance is a quality bar the incumbent has stopped meeting.

  Wanted to like it - error messages and doesn’t work

  Fine, but turns into a worse version of itself if you use it for free for long enough

• Outdated interface

  Perceived age signals abandonment and makes migration easy to justify.

  pretty cool!

  Name chapters to find something you’re looking for