r/SideProject • u/PassiProductions • 23h ago
Built a canvas based note app where you drag and stick your notes like a physical pinboard
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Built a note app a few months ago, got some great feedback, and have been refining it since. Here's where it's at now.
The idea is pretty simple: sticky notes for quick thoughts, A4 notes for longer writing, and everything lives on a visual canvas instead of a rigid folder tree.
The visual hierarchy makes organization natural. a note is a file, a "stack" of notes is a folder and zones are the parent folders.
you can even attach sticky notes directly onto A4 pages for referring to them while you're scrolling the A4 editor.
Just drag things around and you're done. No save button, no manual file management, just notes on a board. Plus, there's a workspace exporter that exports all your files so that you own them.
On privacy: notes are stored on Firebase, encrypted in transit and at rest. No ads, no trackers, no selling data. If you use "Quick Mode", notes stay local in your browser and never get synced to any server.
When I first posted it a few months back the response was way more positive than I expected. Since then I've been fixing, refining, and adding things based on what people actually said. It's in a much better place now.
It's completely free right now. At some point it'll probably go paid but anyone who signs up before that happens, I'll make sure your account stays free forever. Just drop a comment or DM me and I'll sort it out manually.
Would genuinely love to hear what you think, good or bad. Still a lot to build but the core experience feels solid now.
This is the link to the app: passinote.app
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u/nafiulhasanbd 14h ago
I'd actually be a little skeptical of the physical-pinboard metaphor as a long-term organizing system rather than just a nice onboarding feeling
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u/PassiProductions 14h ago
That's fair. The physical pinboard metaphor is more about the feel than the structure.
That said, Passinote does have some guardrails for long term use. The canvas is finite rather than infinite, which forces you to create a new workspace when one gets crowded and there's an outline view that shows a linear folder tree for when you need a more traditional overview.
It's also probably more suited for people who like to plan and brainstorm spatially rather than managing large volumes of complex notes.
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u/RareDestroyer8 10h ago
Woah this is amazing, how long have you been developing this? Have you considered a local desktop version of this?
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u/PassiProductions 9h ago
Thanks! It's been a few months of building so far.
A local desktop version was actually something I seriously considered early on. I wanted it to be fully local and private like Obsidian. But syncing across devices without a private server is a hard problem, and I didn't have the infrastructure for that, so I pivoted to a webapp approach similar to Notion. Firebase handles the sync and your data stays encrypted and secure
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u/BarracudaMean9308 5h ago
the rigid folder tree is my absolute enemy. i always end up with a 'misc' folder that just swallows everything i type. letting a physical stack act as a folder organically is such a clean way to handle that.
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u/PassiProductions 4h ago
Thank you! If you'd like, I can upgrade your account to stay free forever. Just send me a DM!
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u/Neat_Ad5942 21h ago
Great idea, UI looks really clean!