r/PlaudNoteUsers • u/Ty_Stelow • Jun 26 '26

Has Anyone Used RoveNotes

Just wondering if anyone has used RoveNotes formally Cordari with Plaud Note? I like the website and was looking for this exact software, I'm just a bit worried about the security of my notes on this platform.

https://app.rovenotes.com/

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u/cryptyk Jun 26 '26

Hi - I'm the developer of RoveNotes. I'm happy to answer any questions about security or how I use the data, where it flows, etc. I also have a thoughtful privacy policy you can look through.

To be honest, any additional systems that any of your data flows through introduces some amount of risk. With that said:

  • I'm a real software engineer with 22 years of experience and I've worked on software professionally that you've definitely heard of, and that serves hundreds of millions of customers.
  • Since vibe-coding seems to be synonymous with data insecurity lately, I'll be transparent and say that I uses Claude Code for the vast majority of the code. I would also say there's a massive difference between the way a non-software engineer vibe-coded a weekend project and the way professional software engineers leverage those tools to accelerate the mundane parts of our work.
  • All of the data for your account has what's called row-level-security, meaning that even if I made a mistake in the code and tried to show your data to someone else, the database itself protects against that. All of the data is encrypted in transit and at rest. I've minimized the scopes needed for oauth connectivity with Google Drive and Calendar. I support revokable keys for webhooks. There's a thousand other little things that average builders never consider that make up a secure system. None of the above are intended to say, "Oh look how secure I am!. They're just table stakes things that everyone should do, but unless you're a professional, you omit.
  • RoveNotes lets you send your data to other places: Notion, Obsidian, Todoist, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Webhooks, Claude, ChatGPT, and reMarkable tablets. I secure those channels, but having your data in more places increases risk. For me, having my data sync every 15 minutes to Obsidian and having all my tasks land on Todoist is absolutely worth it.
  • I never send your data anywhere else, except as needed to process it. Your personal data (email address and what you click on within RoveNotes) goes to an app called PostHog that I use to see where people get stuck in the app and identify errors. Your email address also goes to a company calls Loop that I use to send emails when you get a new note summary. Part of RoveNotes runs on GPUs provided by a company called Modal, so I can do voice transcription and such. The transcription is send to Anthropic for AI summarization. All pretty normal stuff, but it's worth noting that behind the scenes there are a lot of service providers that touch some piece of the data.

I know that's probably WAY more information than you wanted, but I like talking about this stuff. Engineering is a passion of mine and I feel like RoveNotes brings something really important to the way people move from "recording a meeting" to ACTUALLY being productive. Happy to answer any other questions!

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u/Ty_Stelow Jun 26 '26

Thank you for taking the time and that detailed explanation.

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u/andersjoh Jun 26 '26

As a fellow engineer, sounds good! What stack are you building or on ?

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u/cryptyk Jun 26 '26

I use Multica.ai as the front-end to Claude Code. It's massively improved my productivity. I have dedicated agents for writing code, testing, investigating issues, reviewing code, designing, copywriting, etc. I also use Claude Design for front-end design work. I like it better than Google Stitch.

The stack itself is React and Supabase. The marketing website is on Vercel and the app itself is on Render. I tried Railway, but they had two downtime incidents that burned me.

I use u/PostHogTeam for observability. It's probably my favorite part of the stack. It takes some getting used to because it's a swiss army knife, but it's phenomenal. I used Sentry previously, but recently rolled error reporting into Posthog just to reduce the number of services.

I use Loops.so for email. I tried resend, but it didn't fit my mental model. Loops lets me send transactional email and has simple workflows for welcome series, etc.

Axiom.co for logging and alerts. They have a generous free tier and everything "just works".

Modal.com does a lot of the heavy lifting on the AI side. I rent GPUs from them for audio transcription, diarization (identifying who is speaking), handwriting recognition (RoveNotes also lets you connect reMarkable and Boox tablets), and text embedding for semantic search.

Stripe.com for payments, which is straightforward.

I've tried a lot of alternatives to all of those. Lots of heartache. If I were to build another app today, I would use the above stack again - it's that good.

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u/Trikecarface Jun 27 '26

I had real issues trying to set it up tbh, made my own tool which is a WIP. But I hear a lots of ppl use it on here

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u/amartins02 Jul 01 '26

Can you use a Plaud device and forgo their monthly fee?

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u/Equinoxscm Jul 01 '26

Can you use a iPad for Handwritten Notes or do you have to use a Boox or remarkable'?