https://www.task-note.com/notes Short daily notes on what people search for in note taking and productivity, with a screenshot from the app. en https://www.task-note.com/notes/handcrafted-notes-ai-slop https://www.task-note.com/notes/handcrafted-notes-ai-slop Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Screenshots of raw, typo-laced Markdown are being posted as a badge of honour. What is actually true in that, what is posturing, and how to set up a desk where nothing writes for you. https://www.task-note.com/notes/low-stimulation-computing-adhd https://www.task-note.com/notes/low-stimulation-computing-adhd Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Task managers ask you to sort a thought before you have finished having it. Separating capture from organising, a board with one card in Doing, and what to do on the days none of it works. https://www.task-note.com/notes/pay-once-software-subscription-audit https://www.task-note.com/notes/pay-once-software-subscription-audit Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://www.task-note.com/notes/self-hosted-notes-vs-local-first https://www.task-note.com/notes/self-hosted-notes-vs-local-first Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A weekend of Docker, certificates and reverse proxies, so a shopping list can sync. What self-hosting is genuinely good for, and the much smaller thing most people actually wanted. https://www.task-note.com/notes/digital-brutalism-plain-notes-beat-templates https://www.task-note.com/notes/digital-brutalism-plain-notes-beat-templates Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Setting up the workspace became the work. The case for the plain page, what it costs, and an honest account of where our own app sits. https://www.task-note.com/notes/is-my-notes-app-training-ai-on-my-notes https://www.task-note.com/notes/is-my-notes-app-training-ai-on-my-notes Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT What the terms actually permit, where the opt-out is hidden, and the moment end-to-end encryption stops protecting anything. https://www.task-note.com/notes/leave-a-notes-app-without-losing-your-work https://www.task-note.com/notes/leave-a-notes-app-without-losing-your-work Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Every notes app has an export button. Most of what comes out is unusable. A fifteen minute drill tells you which one you are in. https://www.task-note.com/notes/deep-work-offline-desktop https://www.task-note.com/notes/deep-work-offline-desktop Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Pulling the plug is the cheapest focus tool there is, and most of us cannot use it because our notes and tasks live in a browser tab. https://www.task-note.com/notes/time-blocking-stress-flexible-kanban https://www.task-note.com/notes/time-blocking-stress-flexible-kanban Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Why a colour-coded calendar collapses by eleven o'clock, and how a board with a work-in-progress limit survives the day that went sideways. https://www.task-note.com/notes/native-desktop-apps-instead-of-web-wrappers https://www.task-note.com/notes/native-desktop-apps-instead-of-web-wrappers Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Packaged websites made simple tools heavy. What a native stack changes, what it honestly does not, and the numbers from our own Windows build. https://www.task-note.com/notes/disposable-notes-delete-most-of-them https://www.task-note.com/notes/disposable-notes-delete-most-of-them Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Most of what you write down expires in two days. A routing habit that sends the rest where it belongs and empties the inbox every Friday. https://www.task-note.com/notes/notes-app-without-ai https://www.task-note.com/notes/notes-app-without-ai Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Why people are switching to notes apps with no assistant at all: the cost of the suggestions, what writing is for, and what a quiet app looks like. https://www.task-note.com/notes/personal-notes-on-a-work-computer https://www.task-note.com/notes/personal-notes-on-a-work-computer Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT What your employer can see when you write personal notes at work, what a local-first app changes, and the part no app can protect you from. https://www.task-note.com/notes/daily-notes-method-one-note-a-day https://www.task-note.com/notes/daily-notes-method-one-note-a-day Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT One page per day takes the place of folders, tags and projects. How the daily note works, why memory prefers it, and how to turn it into tasks. https://www.task-note.com/notes/local-first-task-tracker-private-notes-and-kanban https://www.task-note.com/notes/local-first-task-tracker-private-notes-and-kanban Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT What local-first actually means, and four apps that keep your notes, boards and reminders on your own machine instead of someone's server. https://www.task-note.com/notes/turn-a-line-of-a-note-into-a-card-on-the-board https://www.task-note.com/notes/turn-a-line-of-a-note-into-a-card-on-the-board Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Notes hold the thinking, boards hold the doing, and most apps make you pick one. Here is the move that joins them, and when not to use it.