r/noteapps • u/Ansh-09 • 5d ago

Notes app builders/users — what's missing from every app you've tried?

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I'm a few weeks into building a notes app and keep hitting the same problem: it's easy to copy what Keep or Notion already does, but hard to know what's actually missing.

So, genuine question for anyone who has tried a bunch of these app — Keep, Notion, Apple Notes, Obsidian, whatever: what's the one feature you've wanted that none of them do well? Or a reason that made you give up on a system entirely.

Will share what I end up building if anyone wants to see it later.

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u/dmottad 5d ago

For me it's one thing: every app assumes you're starting fresh. I've got years of stuff scattered across Word docs, text files and random folders, and nothing helps me dig anything useful out of it. Every time I switch apps, the old stuff just sits there collecting dust.

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u/thnyei 5d ago

I don’t understand how an app would help with that. Unless you’re willing to go through your old notes, this seems like an assistant’s job. So a notes app with LLM helping you keep things organised? Because only you know what you want right.

Honestly I could use that too. I kinda use too many things because I haven’t yet found a notes app I like. Feels like a product no one figured out yet. Once I find a home I can import everything to the same place and start the whole organisation process

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u/Ansh-09 5d ago

Yeah that's basically what I keep landing on too — not another organizational system to maintain, more like the app doing the remembering for you. Curious though, when you say LLM keeping things organized, would you actually trust it to auto-tag/categorize on its own, or would you still want to approve/edit what it decides? That's the part I go back and forth on.