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Coding is easy, creating a product users love is hard. I tweet about my journey building and the fascinating world of note-taking.

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Joined November 2014

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Eduard

4 years

NotePlan 3 finished being #2 for Sunday with 399 upvotes (right now). This got me into the ProductHunt newsletter and a good jump in traffic from Sunday till today. It took me at least 3 versions to get the app there - or I was just lucky this time. 🤷‍♂️

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NotePlanApp - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Lean task calendar and backlog notes - Plan tasks with dates in mind using a calendar, notes and a markdown editor.

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1 year

Loving the new screenshots. This is the final iteration. Going live today (+6 more to fill the 10 available spots):

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7 months

Another milestone reached, we got more than 2k reviews for iOS, with a nice average of 4.7 🙌

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2 years

Test Driven Development in real life: 1. Writes a function as part of a bigger feature 2. Writes tests for that function 3. Notices this function is not needed for that bigger feature 🫠

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1 year

iPhone screenshots are done! Can't wait to upload them with the next update.

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1 year

Today's win: Finally crossed 1K ratings on the App Store (iOS). It took a bit long, we started asking for ratings just this year in-app.

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11 months

Done, that was fast and easy, you can't have enough feedback! It opens a form with just two questions, so it's easy to submit and if you left an email with NotePlan it includes that automatically.

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2 years

Yay, maybe NotePlan gets featured this time. It's already the second time I get this. First time nothing big happened.

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9 months

Week is planned ✅ Web Version ready for public beta. Finishing Stripe integration. Solving the big problems in the native version by enhancing filters. Some import improvements.

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1 year

Love the A/B test feature of AppStoreConnect. Trying right now a few variations of my new screenshots for NotePlan. Just started a test to check if the color gray or orange converts better. I like gray more, but I'll trust the numbers.

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8 months

Wow, it amazes me how well @mijustin 's email template works he shared here: We switched that on just two days ago and getting a steady stream of interesting conversations.

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1 year

This feature was fun to build! And highly requested, or rather expected to exist. Now NotePlan can create events on your calendar from the timeblocks you have defined for the day.

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Timeblock Events

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1 year

Have you yet planned the new week?

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1 year

Progress update in updating the screenshots for @NotePlanApp : 1. We updated just the first 3-4 screens across all devices so we can upload them fast (like an MVP). 2. We are running A/B tests with variations to see what's converting better. 3. New drafts for the other screens

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11 months

Deleted Instagram and Youtube from my phone yesterday. Already feeling more motivated to work on NotePlan. Everything is more fun if you take your time. The doom scrolling of Instagram makes you quite impatient.

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9 months

Some new experiments! Improving the filters I thought why not show empty days and add the ability to drag tasks between days? This way it's even easier to re-schedule tasks:

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2 years

💪 Featured in a couple of countries in "Events You Might Like" and "New Apps, Features and Content". And the effect on the impressions and product page views on the right.

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2 years

So proud. I hope that helps me to boost my rankings too.

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8 months

@thekitze Here's the structure: - Weekly goals at the top - Today's plan written out as part of journaling - Batched tasks with titles - Split between "work" and "personal" stuff (top and bottom) - Stuff that's important is flagged (in red)

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11 months

Week 47 is planned! I haven't finished all goals from last week, and I think I planned my goals too concrete. Made it more abstract for this week, so there's wiggle room. Last week I realized how important churn / retention is and implemented some Analytics.

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1 year

🔑 Found out that CloudKit encrypts assets. So if we want to have notes encrypted in @NotePlanApp , we just need to save them as assets. In the next beta: Enable "Save note content as encrypted asset" to get encryption. Proof:

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1 year

@daboigbae PHP is dead, learn PHP.

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9 months

I think UI designers are still safe from AI replacing them. Just asked chatGPT to create a mockup for some part of @NotePlanApp

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7 months

Easiest way to do a monthly review in NotePlan: 1. Setup a filter to show only the completed tasks of last month 2. In Split View, open last months note. Now scroll slowly through the days and take note of your achievements, what could have been better, some stats, etc.

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1 year

Added the first step for an invite system for the web version of NotePlan to enable collaboration. Here you see how I add a user ID to a teamspace. This automatically gives that user access to the teamspace. Next steps: - Allow inviting by email - Add 'copy link' invite step

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2 years

SwiftUI with GitHub Copilot, what a ride, but got it done. You have to open Xcode and VSCode side by side and I'm constantly switching, but Copilot is so useful to help you auto-complete whole blocks of code in seconds. Saves time!

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2 years

This was a productive Saturday! ⏱️ The timeline on iOS is almost ready for beta testing. At first you will only be able to see your events and timeblocks like on Mac, but gradually adding drag & drop.

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4 years

Very cool, @NotePlanApp being featured on the U.S. AppStore (iOS) in the list "Apps You Need This Week". But you surely need it for more than just this week ;)

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1 year

Goals for week 44: Set! This week I'm adding a "Remember" bullet list to my weekly note. This list has no tasks, just things to remember following during the week. Inspired by Paul Grahams essay, I want to keep remembering to follow my curiosity when building NotePlan!

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11 months

How to find ideas: “Check negative reviews of popular apps”. 99% of negative reviews: - “Too expensive”, - “Should be free”, - “I hate subscriptions”

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11 months

If something costs money it’s trash. Oh sweet B2C feedback.

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2 years

“NotePlan has become […] the single place that I can capture notes, tasks, and reference materials. During my working day I used to use OneNote for notes, Todoist for tasks, and DevonThink […]. NotePlan replaces them all.” This review made my day! ☀️😊

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5 years

Mocking up some empty state view designs. Because empty states shouldn't be an afterthought - I learned. Since thats the first thing a user sees.

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1 year

NotePlan is one of this weeks favorite in the German App Store thanks to widgets which we introduced in the latest release. With one of the note alternative icons which you see being A/B tested here.

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10 months

My favorite part about NotePlan's Discord community is the feature brainstorming. By far my most exciting part of the day! I'm taking so many notes my brain is on 🔥 The ideas are sometimes so awesome, I think "How did I miss that?".

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2 years

In-App events are approved and ready, set to publish tomorrow. And I filled Apples "Tell us about your app or game" form, which I don't do often. This time I added a presentation and a loom video to explain the new features and why they are relevant. 🤞

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7 months

@lovetesla2030 @antalova_janka @TanzimIbthesam I couldn’t answer this exactly out of the blue. But I’m not a backend dev. More full stack. I look this stuff up when it’s needed.

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11 months

Where can I find more of you, cornbread220?

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3 years

Got my 16" MacBook M1 Pro yesterday. Coded 5h non-stop today in the office, all on battery and when I came home it was still 62%. 🤯 Not to speak of the sheer speed of compiling and "quickly testing something".

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2 years

It's 2 days after releasing a new version of my app on the AppStore and shipping a popular new feature. Here's the marketing I did: - Tweet & Discord message - Newsletter (~10k subscribers) - Copy email to my sub Reddit - Show "what's new" screen in-app - AppStore changelog

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4 years

Here is how I apply Zettelkasten note-taking to my kind of work as indie developer.

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Zettelkasten for Indie Devs and Product Managers

In Luhmann’s work, Zettelkasten was used in an academic environment. Here is how I translate the academic Zettelkasten to a ‘Product Development’ Zettelkasten.

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7 months

My Friday project, now a bit of marketing!

@NotePlanApp

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7 months

Filter view integration is coming to iOS (beta soon available)! You can switch between timeline and filters - just like on Mac - which allows you to manage tasks across days and notes without having to open them. Control everything from today's note for example. - Have an idea

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1 year

Here's how I capture feedback these days. Was sick of switching between apps, so made a chrome extension to pump the exact feedback I need into Trello.

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11 months

A small app you built in a month is not a startup.

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2 years

"[...] you've gathered such a nice bunch of people here. to me that says it all". It's sometimes hard to keep up 🫠, but I'm loving this respectful and constructive community that tries to figure out with me how to build @NotePlanApp . Discord link:

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1 year

✅ Weekly goals - Making good progress on integrating Supabase as a third-party database for sharing and non-Apple users - Community convinced me to look into widgets for iOS. The biggest challenge is to figure out how to get the data into the widget.

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1 year

I'm slowly figuring out how the App Store works: 1. You need downloads, but that's not enough 2. You **need** reviews, so use that review prompt 3. More downloads -> More reviews = better rankings 4. Creatives and SearchAds can help with downloads

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8 months

@X_BEBEeth @ID_AA_Carmack I think you didn’t see Gemini yet

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1 year

✅ Planning week 42

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11 months

Week 49 is planned! This week we want to release an update to the web version, which has finally now a command bar and dragging notes into other folders. Last week we have also implemented a new native version which we need to clean up and release this week.

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3 years

📰 Just finished writing: "How I manage parallel projects and stay sane". Learn how I apply James Clear's “Four Laws of Behavior Change” to get things done I don't want to do, but have to, and how I beat the Zeigarnik Effect. ... with NotePlan 😀 ▶️

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How I manage parallel projects and stay sane

In this article, I want to share with you how I managed an actual parallel project and some of the behavioral science behind that.

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6 years

Yay! We had been featured somewhere some time in the Mac AppStore :)

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9 months

Or even better use an app that combines calendar and task functions such as @NotePlanApp

@lennysan

Lenny Rachitsky

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The problem with to-do lists, and why you should use your calendar as your to-do list. Clip from my conversation with @nireyal

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4 years

I had some time to record a video this weekend showing you in detail how I use Zettelkasten with NotePlan to develop the app. Besides the Zettelkasten, you also see how I baked in agile/scrum project-management into my notes. Enjoy!

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My Zettelkasten Workflow

In this video, I'm showing how my Zettelkasten Workflow looks like in action with NotePlan. I wrote a short article on how I use it conceptually: https://blo...

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10 months

Validating the web version for NotePlan.

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1 year

@dannypostmaa Because it has humans on it.

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1 year

New weekly goals. Last week we couldn't get it quite finished, but made good progress! Widgets for the native version are added as the new features for this release and the web version supports basic regular notes and calendar events now.

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9 months

You are angry why your feature requests is still not implemented years after you suggested it? If it's B2C, there are probably 1000+ other non-trivial requests that might take hours if not days to implement. It's overwhelming.

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7 months

New skill unlocked: Vector pen

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Stay sane by prioritizing tasks instead of building bucket lists.

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1 year

Shipping every month an update, AMA 😅

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8 months

"The reason people get good ideas in the shower is because it's the only time during the day when most people are away from screens long enough to think clearly. The lesson is not to take more showers, but rather to make more time to think." - @JamesClear

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11 months

Plan for week 48 is done! We made good progress on the web version, but it's not quite ready for an update, some more work this week. - The MVP of "teamspaces" is almost ready, re-focusing on core features after that. - Finished an update for the native version, releasing soon.

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2 years

With this beta of NotePlan I can use spotlight finally to search for my note where I take quick book notes.

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4 years

Looks like NotePlan 3 on the AppStore got into the "Be the First to Try These Apps" list in the U.S. 🥳. Finally! A small step, but bumps up the impressions.

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7 months

@leokellr You can simplify that even more with @NotePlanApp . It combines Notes, Reminders, and calendar

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1 year

If you ever leave reviews with "it's buggy", please be so kind and share what bugs you mean. For the developer and other users.

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2 years

The anxiety when you release a new version. “I hope I didn’t break anything” 🙏

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4 years

@alexfeinberg1 That’s like saying you know one person who smoked his whole life and has no health problems. Statistically. Not. Relevant.

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1 year

Week 46 is planned! And yours? Last week I've learned that I got to focus more on the churn rate. The average for this year has been 6.9%, which is still too high. The ideal rate for B2C is 5% and that's what I'm aiming for.

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2 years

MRR is growing nicely again and I have no idea what I did. Profiting from randomness I guess and the accumulated value 🤷‍♂️

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10 months

Another feedback highlight: Why did you cancel? “It has more features than I need, I’ll use Apple Notes and Reminders” What can we improve? “Add the following new feature…” 🤦‍♂️

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2 years

📧 How to send canceled and expired users on the AppStore emails? This is what I have set up so far: 1. A webhook between @RevenueCat (RC) and @onesignal (OS) to get the latest status updates of a subscription 2. In OneSignal I setup segments with automated messages.

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2 years

Wow, SwiftUI is impressive! Remaking my paywall and got the first pass done in a day while traveling.

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2 years

Today was quite a marketing day! - Recorded a video of a new feature (explaining how to use it, giving examples and use cases) - Sent newsletter for an update (with that video) - Wrote a help article on how to use the new feature - Replied to questions - Tweets

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7 months

Nice Sunday motivation!

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11 months

My favorite book third year was definitely Three Body Problem.

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8 months

@sometimesfrunny @HarryLyu You need to hire a designer 😅

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2 years

Have finally also dropped the "3" from "NotePlan 3" in the AppStore title as it makes no sense with a subscription based app.

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2 years

A software startup is 50% talking to your users and 50% coding.

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1 year

@daniel_nguyenx Sounds like a scam if you don't add anything on top of that.

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2 years

Thats why you don’t start that project or launch your app finally.

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1 year

Concluding another icon A/B test. One is much worse and the other just about the same.

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9 months

Second part of the filter experiment: add new tasks right there:

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4 years

@tim_cook @AppStore Without the @AppStore I probably would never have gone full-time with @NotePlanApp a few years ago. Thanks for supporting us :)

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2 years

Building new features and talking about them gets good open rates! Trying to release a new version every ~6 weeks and always send a newsletter talking about features, how to use them + gifs and videos. The response is great and always earns new reviews.

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2 years

Yay! AppStore impressions shot up (from AppStore Browse) and I have no idea why or where that comes from 😄

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2 years

Yesterday I turned 34, here’s what I wish I would have done earlier: 1. Read more books 2. Take a note about every idea 3. Take advice with a grain of salt 4. Setting high expectations Let me explain…

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1 year

Finally found some way to get GPT-4 into NotePlan. It's on purpose still a bit hidden, but was extremely easy to add. Let's see what people do wit that.

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Preparing the next beta update, with the help of the now integrated GPT-4. It's a small step, but already quite useful if you need to work with text.

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4 years

Backlinks on NotePlan for iOS now finally available. Now we can Zettelkasten also mobile on the go 🥳

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2 years

Looks like the Apple Features is focused on Germany. NotePlan is translated into German, so no surprises here!

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1 year

@rcvd_io It's my favorite section now!

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3 years

*Crazy* productivity hack I learned yesterday, applied right away and so far it works: 🛌 Sleep an extra 30min

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11 months

@xbriangi The last 10% are the hardest

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2 years

🥳 Looking forward to learn more about note taking! @fortelabs

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1 year

This one took a bit longer, since we also started working on a web version and took some time to take care of the sync code, which is always very tricky (loooots of anxiety driven testing).

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NotePlan

1 year

🗞️ v3.9.2 now available on the AppStore! Highlights (Mac & iOS): 🔔 Get notified when a timeblock starts — Stay on track with notifications 📧 Send meeting notes with a tap/click — Email meeting notes right from NotePlan

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2 years

Some people seem to be really angry if they can’t use your app for free. So angry that they go to the reviews section and take the time to leave you a one-star rating.

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2 years

In hindsight my product roadmap and pivots w/ NotePlan looked like this: 0. Free beta / MVP to "validate" my idea. 1. Launch NotePlan 1 as $15 one-time payment. 2. Upgrade to NotePlan 2 as another $30 payment. 3. Launch of NotePlan 3 with subscription pricing. -> 4 🚀 Launches

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2 years

SwiftUI Update - Managed to move what I have written for iOS directly to Mac. - Had to make a few adaptations, but it worked surprisingly well! - Wiring up the UI with Swift logic was also easy enough.

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2 years

It's impossible to find the "right" price 🤷‍♂️

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2 years

How to manage feature requests where you end up adding preferences? Like customizing the behavior of an existing feature. Adding every preference request would make the app more and more complicated over time. Any ideas?

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2 years

On a daily basis, the most difficult part of building an app is to stay focused and not get distracted by all the good ideas users are throwing into your way. 💎 Shiny object syndrom in action

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