I built DailyNote, a minimalist daily notes app: one note per day, a year-at-a-glance calendar, and local-first storage.
The interesting bit is the encryption + sync model:
- Notes are always encrypted locally before syncing to Supabase.
- A dedicated data key (DEK) encrypts notes; your password only wraps that DEK (KEK).
- So when you change your password, it just re-wraps the DEK — no re-encryption of note data.
Demo: https://dailynote.xyz/
Repo: https://github.com/katspaugh/dailynote
Would love feedback on the crypto model, UX, or anything else.
_mig5•1mo ago
I don't want to do a 'look at my tool, it's better' comment (it's not better!) - but per your request for feedback, I just wanted to mention a (sort of) similar project I've been recently working on: https://git.mig5.net/mig5/bouquin, and it might give you some ideas for taking yours further:
Some similarities:
- 'one note per day' design
- days with notes have a visual 'marker' in the calendar
- full encryption at rest
But there are some big differences:
- It's a Qt GUI app (not web based, no syncing)
- It does a lot of other things (document storage, time logging, invoicing etc)
I mention it only because I implemented a few things based on feedback for my own app, that I could see would be useful in yours! Those suggestions are:
- Live markdown syntax (I couldn't use # or * or other Markdown symbols in your app, and that's a pretty popular option, for formatting)
- Version control of notes (in Bouquin, every change auto-saves and there is a sort of 'git diff' version interface that allows reverting to an earlier version)
- Tagging and search
- Perhaps support images
- Code blocks (this is kind of the same as the markdown idea, but syntax highlighting would be a huge win)
One other rather obscure bit of feedback I got for my app, was for people who use it as a 'TODO' planner: for items that were left 'unchecked' (incomplete) at the end of the day, I managed to make it move those items automatically to the next day, to help carry across unfinished work. I was sceptical at first, but it surprisingly useful once implemented!
Anyway, well done! Looking forward to seeing what comes next!
katspaugh•1mo ago
Bouquin looks like a very comprehensive tool, I'll give it a deeper look!
And I will definitely work on those improvements, they seem like must-haves w/o compromizing the minimalist approach I took.
Thanks again and all the best!