NoteLess: a keyboard shortcut notes app where notes expire after 7 days unless you pin them
Disclosure: I built this. $5 paid app, one-time, no subscription, no analytics. Problem: Most notes apps default to keeping everything forever, so over a year your inbox turns into a graveyard of dead thoughts: half-finished grocery lists, codes I copied once, links I never read. The workflow I actually want is: capture a thought in one keystroke, glance at it if I think of it, otherwise let it disappear. What NoteLess is: A small Mac, iPhone, and iPad notes app built around two opinions: One note equals one card. Soft length limit per note. If your thought outgrows a card, you make another card. No nesting, no folders, no infinite-scroll inside a single note. You can turn this off if it really cramps your style. Notes expire after 7 days unless you pin them. Pinned ones stay forever. Everything else is gone after a week. The few notes that matter stick around because you said so, the rest don't pile up. Other details: Global shortcut opens an empty card. Type, dismiss, move on. iCloud Drive sync across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. No NoteLess account, no NoteLess server. Native SwiftUI plus AppKit on Mac, SwiftUI on iOS. Comparison: The best comparison maybe isn't with any particular notes app, which are all much more more robust and full-featured, but with stickies, either the real or the built-in macOS kind. This is a different approach to jotting down a thought that comes to you. Pricing: $5 direct download: https://bendansby.com/apps/noteless.html (auto-updates) $4.99 on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769258333 Same app either way, one-time payment, no subscription. The App Store purchase includes both Mac and iOS.
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There should be a notification that warns you one day before a note gets deleted. Otherwise this will be very frustrating to use.
Added a notification option for those who don't want to live too dangerously 🙂
explain no more. headline catched me. nice! dangerous but nice. auto bring the garbage out
The year of taking the garbage out dangerously!
Cool idea, nice and simply - I need auto-deleting like this in so many apps I use. I switched to Arc mainly because it auto-deletes my tabs after a time too 😂
Sometimes we need a little help letting go!
Can I control how long it will be before it expires?
Added a length preference 🙂
Does it prompt you how long is remaining on the card?
It now has an option to be alerted when cards will expire soon, and cards that are in danger are marked in the list view.
I had imagined of this app being built and I found this.
It must be fate!
Good idea
Very neat
Could you please share the source of the wallpaper?
It's a standard screen saver/wallpaper from macOS Monterey.
I like the look of this.
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